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Show HEAVY FIOHTING (IN MI FRONTS UH ILL lllunlu Berlin Military Correspondent Comments on the European War Situation. t TOO EARLY FOR VERDICT Germans Look Forward With Calm Confidence of Success Suc-cess of Ultimate Victory. Berlin, July 6, 4 p. m. Via London, July 7, 4:05 a. m. The military correspondent cor-respondent of the Zeitung Am Mittag commenting on the war situation, writes: "The fighting on all fronts is increasing in-creasing in extent and Violence. The enemy everywhere is attempting to throw fresh troops into the struggle which seems to be approaching nearer and nearer its maximum intensity. Tho mightiest exertions are being made on all sides to force a decision an the tension can scarcely become higher." After summarizing the various official offi-cial reports from the various theaters of war the correspondent continues: Too Early For Verdict. "It is still too early for a final verdict ver-dict upon the situation as to the strug. gles on the principal fronts stilj in progress. The Germans, however, hitherto, have been able to hold up tho enemy's advance on the west as well as on the south and east. Neither British, French, Russians nor Italians have attained large or decisive successes suc-cesses while in places where tho cen tral powers have assumed the offen-slve, offen-slve, as in Volynia and south of the Dniester, their operations have been conducted with success. "The situation enables us to look forward with a certain assurance ot success and with a calm confidence of our fighting men. Our troops on all the fronts are faced by numerically superior forces and therefore are confronted con-fronted with the prospect of further heavy fighting." Expect Larger Russian Offensive. The correspondent devotes comparatively compara-tively more space to the combats on the east front than to those on tho west, declaring that the Russian attacks at-tacks against Field Marshal von Plln-denburg, Plln-denburg, Prince Leopold and Count Bothmer give every evidence from the extent and masses of the troops employed em-ployed that an offensive on a larger scale is contemplated. He adds that the fighting along von Hindenburg's front still is in progress but asserts that the attack against Prince Leopold's Leo-pold's armies appears to have been finally and decisively repulsed with the heaviest losses. The fighting continues on the upper Styr, he says, and the Russians were able to cross the river and gain a foothold In one place but tho counter attack already has begun. The Russians Rus-sians were thrown back In Volynia and on the Strlpa front, he concludes, and the victory at Tlumach, south of the Dniester is increasing in extent. |