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Show AUSTRIANS DRIVE BMJUSSIANS First Actual Successes ft in West Galicia Russians Ir Attacked on Two Sides. ARMY IS RETIRING I Germans Reassume Old Forti- f f ied Positions After Retire- - ment From Northern I Poland. I Berlin, Dec 17 by wireless to Say- g ille, L , The first actual successes k . against the Russians in the last few E, days appear to have been achieved by m. the Austrians in West Galicia Here a the Russians, according to advices re- - ceived from the zone of hostilities. W have been attacked simultaneously I from two sides; on their right by an R oltensive from the eastward of Cra- ? cow, and on their left front by a H movement directed from the south h The report that the Austrians are following up the retiring Russian fc army from the south shows, in the E1 opinion of military observers, that the m H Russians are being forced northward F upon their forces In western Poland. 2 L w bother this retirement will extend to the Russians massed to the North of Piotrkow, will depend on the I events of the next few days. The re- port of the withdrawal of the Ger- j man column which advanced through " Mlawo, northern Poland, indicates that the Russians recognized in Hint the menace to their right flank. ; Germans Strongly Fortified. The old positions reassumed by the I Germans are strongly fortified and in the belief of military critics can J be held for a long time under normal jr conditions, even against a greatly BU-p BU-p rloi force. The German offensive In North ! i Poland appears to be proceeding ac- 1 cording to program, reports from the frontier say, without disarrangement by the Russians. ft Servians Unexpectedly Strong. n That the Austrians were obliged to r- I I evacuate Belgrade, Servia, after hav- f H I ing retired before the Servian army f H ; to the southward of Valjevo. points ,n to the advance of the unexpectedly e j I 6irong Servian forces. The aseump- H ! tion also appears justified that the U j ustrianB may possibly havp with- rj I drawn from Servla for use in West -a H Galicia trusting to chance that the e S rvians were incapable of a further i- j decided offensive. |