The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-08
Czar's Troops Reported Es- tablished on the Warthe River After Victory Over the German Forces
DING DONG FIGHTING
 CONTINUES IN WEST; POSITION UNCHANGED
Belgians Gain Rest for the First Time Since War Began = Germans Con- tinue the Offensive at Ypres

London, November 7.--B,2O ?. n.) Except for the fall of Tsingtsu, the most significant report from any of the battle fronts today-and the most welcome to the nIIfes--is that the Rus- sians, besides driving the Austrians back in GaIicia, have reached the wartbe river in Russian Poland and have established themselves on the east Prussisn frontier.
 A Berlin official report says some Rrs sian cavalry crossed the warthe, but were driven back. To this the Russian report adds that the town of Warta on the and that German column has proceeded westward through Czenstochowa near the Siesian frontier.
 The Russians, too, are responsible for the report that they have defeated the Germans near Mlawa, in Poland, just across the east Prussian boundary and at I4yck, in East Prussia.
 Military observers here say the Rus sians have followed the retiring Germans
 
 pated. and that if they are in force they msy prevent the Germans from taking up their new positions on the warthe and compel them to fall back to the Silesian border.
 Send Troops Westward
 Despite all this, reports persist that the Germans are sending westward large numbers of their troops who have been pb r1e in pnf fn ba in, France and Belgium. That they would do t,.is with enormous Russian forces threat c1ing their own and richest territory. mill itary men here say seems highly iunproh- cLle, unless the Germans are satisfied a small force can prevent the Russians en- tering S.lesia and East Prussia.
 In the west the ding-dong fghting con tinues The Belgians, who hold the lines along the coast, are being given com parative rest after their three months of almost continuous fighting.
 The Germans still are concentrating ercund Ypres, where they are trying to hack their way through the Anglo French troops to the coast.
 Both sides claim to have made progress here. the Anglo-French forces southea st Of the town and the Germans southwest. Correspondents in the rear of the armies say the fighting has not appreciably les Hened and that both sides are using a tremendous weight of artillery in an en- deavor to clear the ground for an :n- 1antry advance.
 Both armies are being reinforced. It seems to be realized that the Germans cannot proceed farther west because of the cooperation of the warships with the land forces and that route either here or farther south must be found if the Germans are to attain their ambi- tion of reaching the French coast
 n I;v,A tacks and counter-attacks have been de- livered with success first to one and then to the other side but without material change in the situation.
 Action Is Slow
 Things are moving slowly in the. near east so far as Is known here. The only news from there today concerns the bonn tardment of the ports of Zunguldiak and Kuzlu on the Asia Minor coast of Turkey by Russian fleet and the sinking of sew eral Turkish transports. It is said also that the Russians have occupied the en- tire region northeast of Erzerum. in Asia Minor. Russia Is said to be finding useful allies in the Arinenians, who at last see a hope of freedom from Turkish rule.
 There is no change in the political situa- ton in the Balkans If is said, however, that agitation has been renewed in Rou- mania for the participation of that coun- try in the war on the side of the allies The fall of Tsingtau caused rejoicing here, It is believed that with the sur render of the German fortress the Anglo Japanese fleet, which took part in the siege. will be detailed to hunt down Ger man cruisers still at large in the Pacific
 Booty at Tsingtau
 No announcement has been made con eerning the amount of booty the allies obtained through the surrender of Tsing- tau, but it is believed the Germans de- stroyed everything possible before cap ituating. When the siege began there were in the port one German cruiser four gunboats and three destroyers, the Aus trian cruiser Kaiserin Elizabeth, five Ger man merchantmen and several prizes the Germans had taken. Of these vessels one destroyer ran ashore and was captured and it is believed the Austrian cruiser vas blown up. 1t is possible that the German ships met q similar fate.
 Great Britain is not satisfied that all has been told of the Pacific naval battle and continues to hope that the German cruisers Leipzig and Dresden, which en- gagged the Glasgow and which have not been reported since the battle hava hae,