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Show STRUGGLE NOW MOST INTENSE London, Jan. 8. Dealing with the situation in Russia, the Time's Petro-grad Petro-grad correspondent says the Russian success threatens Pinsk with envelopment envelop-ment from the south, while in the Czernowitz region tho Austrians savage sav-age counter-attacks shatter themselves mainly against the stone wall of the Russian offensive. "The fighting in the Styr region," the correspondent adds, "threatens to increase in fierceness and obstinacy as the Russian offensive develops, seeing see-ing that the Austro-Gerraans are tenaciously ten-aciously hanging on to the region of RafaJovska and Czartorysk as a screen to Kovel and a link between the Aus-tro-Gormans in Galicia and the northern north-ern army." London, Jan. 7, 9:4p p. m. Some Idea tf the determined nature of tho Russian blow on the Bessarabian front is conveyed by Pctrograd dispatches today, which state that the Russians for fifty hours concentrated 400 guns on the Austrian positions at Czernowitz, Czerno-witz, as a preparation for infantry attack. at-tack. The Russian communications do not 3ret claim that Czernowitz has fallen but dispatches from German sources admit the Teutonic position there is critical. It is not yet clear whether the Russian Rus-sian operations In this theater herald a big general offensive movement of all the Russian armies from the Baltic to the Rumanian border or merely indicate in-dicate a diversion of unparalleled mag nitude and fierceness designed to weaken the pressure of the central powers In the Balkans and incidentally on the Italian front. The fighting has been of the most -bitter character, according to both the Austrian and Russian reports. Few prisoners are being taken and -the infantry in-fantry engagements are largely in the nature of hand-to-hand encounters. All of tho Russian operations thus far reealed are being pressed along the railway lines, which simplify the problems of the winter supply of food, ammunition and fuel. Tho situation along the other fronts is comparatively comparative-ly quiet. Loss of Submarine. The loss of a British submarine by a mischance of navigation off the Dutch coast makes a total of eleven British submarines lost since the beginning be-ginning of the war. A majority of these, however, have been of the smaller types. An echo of General Sir Ian Hamilton's Hamil-ton's review of the Dardanelles operations opera-tions is found in a report published today to-day that General Sir Frederick Stop-ford, Stop-ford, who was recalled on account of his conduct in the Suvla Bay operations, opera-tions, has demanded an inquiry by the war office into the whole circumstances circum-stances of the landing of troops in the Dardanelles, In connection with the submarine activity in the Mediterranean sea, an Athens dispatch notes that alarm is felt there owing to the fact that none of tho nine ships laden with grain purchased in America either has arrived ar-rived or been signalled. |
