Show GERMAN ON WEST POSTPONED CHECK IMPOSED ON ARCHDUKE JOSEPH ferdinands ARMY CAUSE OF DELAY neither side has attempted anything of decisive nature and it is believed it may be weeks before they do london tho the check which the russians have imposed on archduke e joseph ferdinands army in southern poland and the additional strain which this has placed on the german general von Macken zens army to the right has postponed it is believed in military circles here the threatened german offensive in the west and there is now a possibility that the allies will be the first to take the offensive feng lve in support of this it is pointed out that the attacks by the german crown princes army in the which the german press announced was the commencement of a general move forward have ceased and what fighting is going on along the western front consists of artillery engagements a few isolated attacks and counter at tacks by infantry which make little or no difference in the positions of the opposing forces the british according to the french report have repulsed a german attack the german reports h however however allude to this as a british attack and berlin says it was repulsed with considerable sid erable loss in tact fact the french a and nd german reports are generally contradictory in respect to what figh fighting ting has taken place but from the trend of them it is evident that neither side has attempted anything of a decisive nature and it is believed here that it may be weeks yet before they do so far as the germans are concerned military observers assert they are bound to arry carry out their offensive against the russians until there is r some ome decisive engagement such as the capture of the lublin cholm railway which it is asserted would have been in their hands before now it if the aus arians advancing toward the city had not been driven back italian forces operating in the tyrol are not seriously menacing rovereto by their continued advance in the mountain passes from the east but according to general Cad Ca domas report are now advancing rapidly on riva from the west thus the operations in the Tr entina district are being carried forward on both sides of lake garda with triest as the focal point of the advance official reports from the tyrol front state that engagements in the chiese valley and at mount plano piano have resulted in favor of the italian alpine troops while the heavy artillery has brought under range of its file the fortifications erected by the austrians Aust lans rians on ledro lake |