The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-24
Special Dispatch From Pe- trograd Says Russians Al ready Have Won Deci-
 sive Victory
GERMANS PREPARE TO TAKE OFFENSIVE
 AGAIN IN THE EAST
May Make Another Effort To Get Through French Coast Defenses-Ypres
 Is B0mbarded

London. November :3.--to,3o D. m.D
 The battle in the region between the
 vistula and wsrta rivers In Poland appears to have turned In favor of the Russians. A special dispatch from pet- roRrnd to Paris says the Russian army already has won a decisive victory.
 While this may be mn congregation both the Russian and tho German of- ficinI reports suggest that General You Hindenburg's second thrust at Warsaw has been checked.
 Grand Duke Nicholas, commander in chief of the Russian forces. for two days in succession has recorded partial sue cesses and tonight the German general stan says the arrival of Russian rein
 forcements has postponed decision.
 Both sides have expressed the greatest confidence in the outcome. Grand Duke Nicholas and General von Hindenburg heretofore have been so successful In their strategy that their adherents look upon them almost as unbeatable Numbers Must Tell The German papers this morning were
 talking of a general Russian retirement
 
 been advancing steadily in Galicia have repulsed the Austro-Gcrman attack be- fore Cracow. hold part of the German territory in East Prussia and oppose Gem eral Won Hindenburg's advance on War
 saw. It is the same in Petrograd. All
 the correspondents there declare the Rus
 sian numbers must tell when the Germans
 have reached the ground on which Grand
 Duke Nicholas has chosen to give them l battle
 l While undertaking immense tasks in the east. the Germans, according to Hll ac- counts, arc preparing to launch another offensive movement in the west Just where this is to be Is known by the gen l eral staff alone. 1t Is believed here they will make another effort to get through to the French coast and perhaps | at the same timo try to force the line Of l French fortresses In the Argonne region. The Germans have been violently bonn l barding Ypres in Flanders. Soissons in i the Aisne and Rheims, while they have
 been attacked in force in the Argonne
 region. The French claim the Argonne 1 assaults have been repulsed, while the Germans say that they have been gain | ing ground steadily.
 Lombard Coast
 | Any or all of this activity may bo in- tended to divert attention from the quar- | ter in which tho supreme attack will be made. but the allies are sure to discover soon where they must>>expect the next | blow. To ward off the possibility of the Germans again trying to move along the coast the British fleet has been lombard | Ing their positions from the sea. Turkey. as usual, reports victories over 1 the Russians in the Caucasus and tho British in Egypt, but these lack con | frmation. The English tonight issued an !, account of successful British operations ] in the Persian gulf. The same statement l told of the defeat of British force sent against German East Africa. | British naval airmen, Including Lieu tenant Sippe, one of those who destroyed
 a Zeppelin shed and an airship at Dussel- l dorf before tho Germans took Antwerp. | have made still more daring raid from | French territory over Friedrichshafen. | According to the aviators account, they dropped bombs which damaged the Zeppe- | lin factory at that place. One aeropiane was brought down by Germans. but the | others escaped damage.