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Show OERMANSlANl CAMPAIGN PLAN II Severe Fighting Expected in iH Attempt to Oust Russians WW From Bukowina, Hun- SH gary and Galicia. iaB RUSHING TROOP TRAINS Austrians Fail to Stem Russian HS Invasion and Situation Be- aqjfcS comes Serious. i9H Petrograd. via London. Jan. 23, ! mSa p. m. It has become apparent to the Mm Russian general staff that the Ger- IGBSS mans have altered materially their SBaCT plan of campaign on the Russian front yJmjl with a view to attempting to oust th e Klif armies of General Ivanhoff from Bu- jrarc kowlna, Northern Hungary, and East- 'fa&aa em Galicia. In consequence it Is IfjffjM believed that the most se-ere fight- jg2 ing of the next few weeks is likelv folfiuM to occur in the south rather than in BSfS i central Poland, along the Warsaw 'IcmR front. &5aS!( The new German plan Is thought lo Vos have been elaborated at a recen: frt.'w8 meeting of Austrian and German staff ll?3$Ji j officers at Breslau. Russian military r?'S j officials say that the Austrians have feV&p! I failed in their alloted task of stem- l ming the Russian invasion and that i- "--'A the Germans have awakened to the tkSkH seriousness of the situation and con- l-tw Bequently have adopted the new plan. iSjc'. The change is regarded as largelv re- pMli sponsible for the prolonged lull about t" Warsaw, where military operations are much less aggressive. I&rg Germans Rushing Troops Ahead. itfi&fjB During the last month Russian mili -9HUy tary authorities have been receiving ''Sffypl information that all the railroad lln ITiSi t leading from Prussian Silesia through fr!2r Hungary to the Rumanian frontie- $$jr and Bukowina have been closed to IP ftatffi non-military traffic, while hundreds of trains loaded with troops and muni- :'-f?V: tions have been forwarded from Ger- fH many It has been noted, however. L'- thai during this time no reinforce- In-w ments have arrived at the fields of tltv"' action on either side of the lower Vtf't Vistula, while the Austrians seeming- iBvi ly ;ire attempting merely to hold and fortify their positions along the Du- 1it naje'cT Russian staff officers state tiia' when the war began, the Germai -. j i w-ere confident that the Russian 0 j would direct all their efforts towajrjV 1 the western frontier and that conn,'J Quently Bukowina and the Carpathian passes were left insufficiently defeat! ed. The Russians profited from thjs situation driving the Austrians from the Russian province of Volhynia, and from easteru Poland and pursuing them into the plains of northern Hungary. In central Poland, it is j I said, the Russians attempted to cH nothing more than to straighten their I lines along the Vistula, Bzura and j Dunajec. but they still continue an offensive movement northwest of Warsaw. j In this section the Russian line ex-tends ex-tends from the east Prussia frontie.-to frontie.-to Chorzellen, southwest through Rad- zanowo and Slerpez, to the Vistula at Dobrzyn. The next aggressive move on the j part of the Germans is expected to tv an effort. In conjunction with the Aus trians. to expel the Russian invaders j from the eastern Galicia passes and from Bukowina and Hungary This move, if successful, would prevent th? I occupation of Transylvania bv Rumn- j nia. should that nation decide to en J ter the wai |