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But Germans Also Were Com
PEELED to Retire at
Other Points.
NO GENERAL CHANGE
Vast Armies Have Been Battling TWO
Months Without Decisive Result
Russians Score Victory Over
Germans in East.
--latest Dfsbakc.7eS. J

LondOn.-The Germans have under
taken a general offensive movement,
along the line extending from the
mouth of the River User on the North
Sea, to the River Mouse, and while
they have compelled the Allies to give
ground in some places, they them
selves have lost positions in others.
This, in a few words, is what is gath
cred from official reports coming from
the French and the German headquar-
tiers.
German Attack Severe.
The German attack was particularly
severe in the West, where their right
wing, strongly REINFORCED by fresh
troops, attempted an advance against
the Belgians who are holding the Al
lies extreme left. This left rests on
the coast and is supported by English
and French warships and by Anglo
French troops, which form a front ex-
tending from a point somewhere in
the vicinity of Dixmude, southwark TO
La Bassee Canal Both sides claim
successes, but the French alone admit
that in places they have been COM
PEELED to fall back.
NO General CnanQe-
Generally, however, there is little or
no change in the situation, the lines
swinging and swaying as they have
done for weeks. Although it is now
just two months since the Allies con-
centrated on the Franco-Belgian from
tier to oppose the German advance.
and the invaders have been almost to
Paris and back in the interval, no de-
cisive battle has been fought. Neither
side has destroyed or even partly de-
stroyed an army. Even the Belgian
army escaped almost intact after that
country was overrun by the Germans.
Russians Victorious.
In the present battle on the River
Vistula, from Warsaw south to the
River Pilica, the Russians have scored
an important victory in driving the
Germans back and have captured
many prisoners, besides guns and am
munition. But the defeated army,
when it gets back to its selected posi-
ton, can entrench and start another
siege battle such as that which oc-
Cured on the River Aisne, in France.
Southwark of the Pilica the Germans
still hold the River VistuIa except in
front of the fortress at IVangorod,
where they were driven back by at
tacks from that stronghold
Austrians Active.
The Austrian army, which was so
often described as routed and de-
stroyed in the battles Of Galicia, has
sprung into life again and is attacking
the Russian left wing. The Austrians,
however, apparently have found an
impenetrabIe barrier at the River San,
north of Jaroslau.
Noted French Filler Killed.
Paris.-France has lost on the bat
tie field one of its most widely known
amateur aviators-Dr. Emile Rey-
mond, president of the National Avia-
| ton Company and a member of the
French senate.
Cut German Communications
The Hague.-Reports reaching here
here say the allies have cut the Ger
man communications between Bruges
and Client The fighting in that sec
ton is said to be increasing. Bands
of franctireurs are reported operating
in the rear of the German lines and
have sniped hundreds of Germans.
French Fleet Is Helping.
London-Vessels from the French
navy, having crept around the coast,
were standing by the British mont
tors which are hurting shells land
ward between Ostend and Newport
on the Belgian coast in continuation
of the fierce battle between Germany
| and the allies for the possession Of
| the North Sea and channel ports. For
! the first time since the war began
| air craft and warships are aiding sim
| ultaneously in the movement of land
| forces; thus the struggle is being
waged in the air, on the sea and on
| the land at the same time.
Catch a German Destroyer.
London.-A dispatch from Peking
| to the Exchange Telegraph Company
reports that the allies warships have
captured a German destroyer which