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Show GERMANS ACTIVE WESTOFWARSAW Right Flank Untenable and Left Endangered by Advance Ad-vance of Russians Along the Vistula. P trograd, Jan. 19. via London. 2: IP p. m The German forces in Central Poland are continuing their efforts to advance west of Warsaw, between -in i m . and Boh mow, and southwest south-west of Warsaw, between Bkiernie--wlee and Grodzisk, although their left flank is endangered by the advance of Russian troops along the righl bank of the Vistula west of Plock, and the position of their right flank. a ' ordlng to Russian reports, is no longer (enable. This forward movement move-ment of the center of the German line ha been unsuccessful thus far, lia ing been noted by Russian aeroplanes and checked by artillery. All the trenches which the Germans succeeded succeed-ed In taking have been recaptured by the Russians. It is now the conn :, bus of military opinion there that the, German annv must either force its way through the Russian line in the center, where its present efforts arr directed, or else retreat lo the YVaria river, which would mean falling back to within about 25 miles of the German Ger-man frontier. The Russian movements move-ments designed to encircle the German Ger-man flanks will make it Impossible, military men say, for the Germans to maintain their present positions in the center. Artillery Checks Austnans. The expected co-operation of Austrian Aus-trian forces from the southward has I failed to materialize. The attempted advance of the Austrians east of Ple-Itrokow, Ple-Itrokow, as well as In the Tarnow region, re-gion, on the Dunajec, has been checked check-ed successfully by the effective work of the Russian artillery. Along the immediate Warsaw front there has been no material change In positions recently In the extreme , north the Russians report a steady , advance toward East Prussia and in the extreme south they state they are i moving forward successfully in the Carpathians. Their northern move- ment has been retarded near Loetzcn J by the German fortifications and the general impenetrability of the country coun-try in the Mazurian lake region. In the south, however, the Russians apparently ap-parently have occupied all the Carpathian Carpa-thian passes and have crossed the borders of Transylvania. German Aggrecslon Continues. So far as can be surmised by Russian Rus-sian military critics, the Germans have no intention of inaugurating in the immediate future a wholesale assault as-sault which would precipitate the decisive de-cisive contest. Nevertheless they (ontinue their aggressive movements by means of scattering attacks along the whole front Recently these attacks at-tacks have been diminishing in number num-ber and In intensity. The Russian arm reported iO hae occupied the Carpathian passes is now said to have emerged into the plains of Hungary, thirty miles from the border of Bukowina. London. Jan 19, 10:43 a m. An Amsterdam dispatch to the Central News states ihat the American steamer. Pathfinder, with a cargo of cotton from America for Germany, has arrived at Ymuiden, Holland, and is awaiting a pilot to proceed to Bremen |