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Show GERMANS IM TRY ! TO TAKE WARSAW ARMY UNDER H 1 N DEN BERG HAS COVERED TWO-THIRDS THE DISTANCE DIS-TANCE TO POLISH CAPITAL. Leaders of Russian and Austro-Ger-man Forces, Are Confining Themselves Them-selves to Briefest statements ; Concerning Hostilities. . 1 London. The battle which is heing fought in the region between the Vistula and W'arta rivers, in Poland, appears to have turned in favor of the Russians. In fact, a special disaptch from Petrograd to Paris says that the Russian army already has won a decisive de-cisive victory. While this may be an exaggeration, both the Russian and the German official reports suggest that General von Hindenberg's second thrust at Warsaw has been checked. News coming from unofficial sources, however, shows that the German Ger-man advance has penetrated farther into Poland than had been disclosed previously, and that Warsaw is threatened threat-ened for a second time. General von Hindenberg's army has advanced as far as the Lowicz-Skierniewice line, which means that the Germans have covered two-thirds of the ground to the Polish capital, from which 'they are now only forty miles distant. Far ther south in Poland, however, the Teuton allies are said to have been-repulsed been-repulsed between Radom and Kielce. The battle in East Prussia seems' to have died down, but the Russians continue to advance in Galicia and. are still fighting on the Czenstochowa-: Cracow front. The battle in Poland in the direction direc-tion of Lowicz is the most critical. The Germans express confidence in, General von Hindenberg, but here in; Petrogad military observers express, the opinion that Russia's overwhelming overwhelm-ing superiority in numbers of men again must tell. The Servians are making a stand against the Austrians in well chosenj fortified positions on the Kolubara; river, but as the Austrians command superior forces and Servia is without' allies near enough to offer her assistance, assist-ance, It seems apparent that unless, other Balkan states come into the' war, Servia is faced with defeat. |