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eaults by the enemy in the Car
pathians az the puJok Pass as well
AZ fresh sorties from rrZemys,.
RUSSIANS ON OFFENSIVE,
rlan TO push Eas, vruss'ar ,1~ss'ov
Ntro~eusty.

NDeffD' N~tP fVNrO'FN - w. go
loNpoN, Dec. 40 An acce,. able an
alysis Of the situation in the eastern
theatre Of war Is contained in a des-
patch received tonight from retrograd.
The correspondent of n Petrosrsd news
paper is quoted 49, follows:
1T is too 5000 10 crow over our re-
cent victories In Poland and Galicia II
Will he time enough to eNult when the
armies of the German Emperor are
flung back over the frontiers of Posen
and Silesia. Nevertheless Our proud ad.
versaries themselves haze admitted re-
verses which nullify Marshal Won Hin
denburg's ambitious plan for the relief
NJ Cracow. the safeguarding of Silcsia,
the capture of Warsaw and the con-
quest Of Poland.
From Berlin and Vienna come ad.
missions statements Of fact which
could not be concealed longer from
neutral countries that the Austrians
have been crushed in Galicia and have
been forced to abandon hope of reliev-
ting Przemysl: that tho main German
army west OF Warsaw is merely mark
Ing time and that German operations in
North Poland are utterly at a stand
still. II Is especially significant that not
so much IS claimed by the Grand Duke
Nicholas The world may expect a
forward movement by the whole Rus
sian army which will push the invasion
of East Prussia. drive Won Ilindenburg's
exhausted and depleted forces back
upon Thorn and Breslau and place a
-'nE of T. Ies.1n troops around Cracow"
Austrtars Adm,t Defeat.
Following close upon the G.rnan War
Offce's statement that the Russian often
eiv~ In Ciaiicis had proved superior to the
Austrian strength. the Austrian General
stan admitted to-day that its forces had
heen obliged TO abandon western Galicia
and the entire eastern 'front.' The latter
phrase refers to the failure or the AUS
tran operations in southern Poland along
the River Nida
Gen Dankl and Gen Voirosch Il Is
admitted. have been beaten along the
pilitss and the Nda in their attempt to
turn thu Russian loft wing and enable
Marshal Won iIiudenburg To bea; down
the Russian defence along the BZura ana
Ravko rivers These Austrian armies
are lighting rear guard actions in their
retreat toward Cracow. and dispatches
received from Petrograd tonight say that
Dankl and Voirosch will be compelled TO
take refuge in Cacow.
The Petrograd correspondent or the
Morning Post says that the armies OF
Won Hindenburg has suffered appalling
losses In the last two weeks. one esti-
mate is that in central Poland alone the
Germans have lost 100000 in killed.
wounded and prisoners. Their losses IN
killed. wounded and missing since NO
vember . are placed nj 100000.
For a fortnight" says the POSTS cor
RESPONDENT there has been no rest. no
intermission. but one hideous nightmare
OF wholesale slaughter. which has ter
yibly strained the nerves or the most
hardened troops. The German wave
poured upon the rock OF Russian defence
in "A ceaseiess sequence OF attacks The
rock still stands. although an eighth OF
The tota, German force has persisted. The
condition 9: tho !aus;r!sns !. st'n n,ore
hopeless, and their retirement from the
passes il acquiring more and more the
character of rout, hasty and disor-
dered.''
Another despatch says that German
artillery resumed action yesterday and
that several heavy batteries, including
a number OF II inch howttzers. WORKING
along the upper reaches of the RaNka
covered the retreat Of the German line
from several positions. The main Ger
nan forces are now extended along q
curve which is more distant from war
saw than II was last week.
Both German and Austrian official re-
ports speak OF heavy Russian REINFORCE
ments II is plainly indicated that the
Grand Duke Nicholas. af.er exhaustlne
the strength OF his opponents by the
vigorous defence Of his veterans, sud
denly threw into the scale new army
corps made up of fresh young troops
These are beginning to make an i'm
preston west Of Warsaw as well as In
the south