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Show PROGRESS Or OF GREAT POWERS FORWARD MOVEMENT OF THE ALLIES CONTINUES, ACCORDING ACCORD-ING TO FRENCH REPORTS. The German Rush to Warsaw Appears to Have' Been Checked, Russians Claiming to Have Beaten Back invaders. The long expected attempt by the allies to advance seems to be under wav in Belgium, and if full credence is to be given the official reports, important im-portant gains have been made by ths French, British and Belgians. (From Nieuport, s's the French of-ficial of-ficial statement, the Franco-Belgian y troops have debouched and occupied , the line from the west of Lombaert-zyde Lombaert-zyde to the farm of St. Georges. Lom-baertzyde Lom-baertzyde lies about one and one-half miles to the northeast of Nieuport, i nrt St Georees is about o'ne mile nf southeast of Nieuport. This operation, opera-tion, therefore, has given them a line running virtually a mile to the east of Nieuport and extending almost north and south for a distance of about two miles. Similarly the French report gains along a three-mile line from Harle-beke Harle-beke to Wytschaete, to the south of Ypres, against which city German attacks at-tacks of a violent nature were being directed almost incessantly a few days ago. Further to the east there has been a gain of nearly a third of a mile in j the direction of Kleinzillebeke. The French war office admits the success of the German infantrymen in gaining a foothold at Steinbach in AI- r sace, although declaring that the - French still hold the heights overlooking overlook-ing that place. In Russian Poland the Russians claim continued success in Miawa region, re-gion, but report large forces of Germans Ger-mans concentrating on the left bank of the Vistula, with the arrival of German Ger-man reinforcements along the front. For two days there has been fierce fighting in the neighborhood of Lo-wiez, Lo-wiez, each side alternating in taking the aggressive. Rpirardinir these operations, Berlin announces that owing to the numerical numeri-cal superiority of the Russians, the German column which had advanced from Soldau, East Prussia, by way of Miawa, in the direction of Ciechanow, has had to reoccupy its old positions. That Warsaw, which has been the German's objective for weeks past, is not particularly disturbed over the outlook is indicated by dispatches from the Polish capital which describe de-scribe the city as gaily decorated, crowded with shoppers and pervaded with the Christmas holiday spirit Though the Austrians have been forced to withdraw from Belgrade and u now occupy only a very small section of Servia, they balance against this a strong offensive in western Galicia, which they declare has compelled the Russians to retreat and resulted in the capture of 31,000 prisoners. Every casualty list carries ine names of men of distinguished family who have fallen or who are in the hands of "the enemy." Word now comes that the son of the former French premier, Louis Barthou, has died from wounds received at the front, and that a son of the imperial German chancellor, - Dr. von Beth-mann-Hollweg, has been wounded and is a prisoner among the Russians. |