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Show "RULERS JOIN THEF TRD0PSAT FRONT BATTLE FOUGHT UNDER EYES OF EMPEROR OF GERMANY AND CZAR OF RUSSIA. The King of England is in France, While the King of Belgium is With His Soldiers and President of France Goes to Front. London. The battle in northern Poland, Po-land, concerning the progress of which there has been so much mystery, mys-tery, is now being fought out under the eyes of the German emperor on the one side and the Russian emperor em-peror on the other. These two mon-archs mon-archs left for the front Tuesday, so that virtually the heads of all the nations na-tions at war are with their troops. The king of England is in France; the king of Belgium, as usual, is spending all his time with his soldiers, while President Poincare of Franca on Tuesday started for another visit to the northern battlefield. Official news from Poland continues to be scanty and, with both headquarters headquar-ters claiming successes, it is impossible impos-sible to say how the battle is going. Of its intensity, however, there can be no doubt. The Germans, when they started for Warsaw, dashed full tilt into a mass of Russian troops and forced their way so faf in that the Russians closed on them. This was taken in Petrograd to mean that some of the German divisions had been cut toff and that their surrender or annihi-llation annihi-llation was inevitable. It appears, however, that, -fighting for their very lives and in the knowledge knowl-edge that a great defeat would end the German offensive and compel them to fall back on their own frontiers, the German troops succeeded in breaking break-ing through the Russian lines at one place and at another in holding their entrenchments against all the Russian attacks. Their flanks are still being iarrassed by the cossacks, but seemingly seem-ingly the Russians are not now in a position to gain the sweeping victory they had anticipated. |
