The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-04
CRACOW CAMPAIGN
 OF PRIME IMPORT
Capitulation of This Fort ress May Mean German { Retreat to Save silesia From Invasion Public Tn Great Britain Just Now Learning of Sinking of Audacious.

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 London, Dec. IA few indirect ref erences in the shape of pfcturesque sketches to the visits of Emperor spectiye battle fronts and activities of the Prince of Wales in the trenches constitute virtually the entire budget of war news which has reached the British public in the past 24 hours; apart. Of course. from the unillunin- ating reports given out at the French. Russian and German headquarters. Of the details of the fighting with it's enormous toll of kille and wounded the public hears nothing.
 For the moment, the dominating is sue remains in the eastern arena Of the war, where the. resdltlof the great clash of millions ofeEa1sn in Poland will go5 5a1ar toward deterun ming Che duration of the war, as well as it's character during the next few months but those more behind the scenes be- .lieve they see signs that the deceptive | interval Of relative calm which has marked the operations in Flanders for the past few days has about reached l it's limit.
 The present activity of the German artillery is believed to be prelude l to another Formidable and concen- trated onslaught somewhere on the al- I lies line This line, however, is be- Iieved by both British and French ex- perts to have been made inpregnabIe since the last German effort to ham mer a way through was so nearly successful.
 However this may be, it appears to be established that in the recent ar I tilIery due1s the allies have found their heavy grens capable of oYerbear- ing the artillery of the enemy. This l has been emphasized in many of the recent despatehes of General Joffre. forces.
 Should the new German assault meet the same fate as previous att tempts to reach the cost of the chan nell, observers in London expect that it will be followed by a general ad- vance on the part of the allies.
 There are signs of approaching ac- tiyity in Alsace, where the French recently have been improving their positions. At the same tiIne,l the Ger
 mans are said to have been heavily reinforced in this section. General Joffre's recent idec1aration to the AL satians that i've are back here to stay may soon be put to the test.
 The fighting in Russian Poland in 1 the opinion of British observers, ap- pears to have had no effect on the Russian operations against Cracow. 1T Ln1S C1Ly Id1lSp IL IS anl1clpaCGQ that it will have an immediate effect on the campaign in Poland, it being argued here that the Germans would i then be forced to double back to stem 1 the invasion of Silesia, which would be the immediate sequel to the Rus sian capture of Cracow.
 The first story of the loss of a Brit ish super-dreadnaugh ght, copied from American newspapers, is published l here with the omission of the name of the; ship and the locality where the | mishap occurred
 The reference in the foregoing despatch to the loss. of 9 British su per-dreadnaught is to the Audacious, l which went down off the northern coast of Ireland, Oct. 2S, after having come in contact with what is be- heved to have come in contact W I lfeved to have been a German mine l The British censors have been se- verely criticised for the suppression
 of news of this event.