Arizona republican., 1914-12-02
King George of England is in France, While Czar of Russia and Kaiser of Ger many Are With Their Soldiers
SAME WITH FRANCE
 AND BELGIUM
This Means That Virtually The Heads of All Ma tions at War Are Now in Close Touch With Their Respective Armies
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPATch]

LONDON, Dec. 1.-The battle in Northern Poland, concerning the pro- gress of which there has been so much mystery is now being fought out under the eyes of the German emperor on one side, and the Rus sian emperor on the other. These two monarchs left for the front t1- day, so that virtually the heads of ail nations at war are now with their armies. The king of England is in France; the king of Belgium, as usG- al is spending all his time with his soldiers. while President Poincare of France started today for another visit to the northern battlefields.
 Official news from Poland contin- ues to be scanty and, with both head- quarters claiming successes, it is i'm possible to say how the battle is go- ing. Of its intensity, however, there can be no doubt. The Germans, when they started for Warsaw, dashed full tilt into a mass of Rus sian troops and forced their way so far in that the Russians closed in on them. This is interpreted in Petro- grad to mean that some German divisions have been cut off and their surrender or annihiation is m evitable. It appears, however. that they are fighting for their lives, with the knowledge that a great defeat will end the German offensive and com pei them to fall back on their own frontiers The German troops have succeeded in breaking through the Russian lines in one place, and at another in holding their entrench- ments against all Russian attacks. Their Hanks are still harrassed by Cossacks, but seemingly the Russians are not now in a position to gain the sweeping victory they anticipated.
 The losses with the desperate fighting going on for fortnight must be heavy on both sides. Against the Austro- German forces in the south the Russians continue to gaI1 more decisive results. They are nov in possession of all the Austrian DOS itions protecting the Carpathian passes. and are said to have arrived dDTedSL or CTdCOW, WHlle lHelT cap lures for three weeks number 50000 men. In the west, although a Ger man official report says there is nothing to communicate. a French official statement notes a somewhat lively cannonade in Belgium, and German activity north of Arras. This may mean the Germans are about to commence another attempt to get through to French ports. Certainly there have been changes in the dis position of the German troops. but what they foreshadow is known only to the German general staff.
 Military men here take opposing views. some believing the Germans will rest content with holding their present positions until the close oi the battle in Poland, where they need all the men they can get, while others predict immediate resumption of tn battle in Northern France and Flanders. The Germans, too, accord ing to Dutch reports. are strongly fortifying Zeebrugge, and other Bel gian ports against the renewal oi attacks by the allied fleet. Fight ing around Ypres is caused by the pushing of British lines forward.