Evening star., 1915-02-06
NEW RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE
MENACES GERMAN FLANK
Petrograd Reports Cars Forces 70
Have Crossed the Bzura and to
Be Working South.
GIVE UP cARPATHIAN PASSES
Russians Said to Have Been Driven
From Mountains In the East, But
to Be Making Progress
on Western Line.

LONDON. February 6, Ie:45
p.m-On his chosen ground to
the west of Warsaw Gen. Won
Hindenburg, the German COM
mander, is continuing his costly
lunges to break through to the
Polish capital.
AT the same time the Russians
further to the north have pressed
forward, and, after crossing the
Bzura river, they are seriously
threatening the Germans with an
outflanking movement.
Heavy Toll of Life.
Thus another great battle for
Warsaw is on, involving perhaps
a greater loss of life than any
other conflict in the war.
The issue is still undecided, but
the Russians claim that the initia-
tive has passed to them, although
further furious German attacks
are expected.
No Decision in CarpathianA.
The more complex and. Istrategicaily,
the more important struggle in the
Carpathians is dragging on without
any decisive turn. Broadly speaking.
it appears that in the western half o(
the battle region the Russians are
making progress while in the eastern
half they appear to have fallen back
from the Lupkow and Beskid passes on
prepared positions. where they are at
tempting to stem the rush Of large
Austro-German forces.
The Russian counter blow on the
massed assaults of Gen. Won Hinden-
burg's men is, to British observers. the
most interesting development of the
struggle in the east. 1t overshadows
for the moment the operations of the
russians In East Prussia, and is taken
in some quarters to indicate they have
ceased playing the role of merely hold
ing their lines to the west Of Warsaw
and determined on an effort to expel
the invaders.
Gear on the Battle Front.
Assumption by the Russians of the
offensive west of Warsaw was COIN
cident with the arrival at the front of
Emperor Nicholas. According to a Rus
sian official statement they have cross
German positions. This, in the opinion
OF military experts, will, II the Rus
SLAMS have sufficient forces at their
disposal. break the deadlock which
y nvtc fa1
Poland for SO many weeks. since il
threatens the flank Of Gen. Won Hinden-
burg's army, which is engaged in the
violent struggle Immediately to the
southwest In an effort to break down
the Russian defensive in the region of
Borjimow
The Russians appear. according to
reports from Petrograd, to have
crossed the Bzura near it's Junction
with the Vistula. and. working south
ward, to have taken part of the Ger
man position near Dakhova, south Of
Sochaczew, which was the point at
which the Germans made their original
attempt to break the Warsaw line
This new offensive on the part of the
Russians explains their anxiety to
clear the right bank Of the Lower Wis
tula Of the Germans, for. having ac-
complished this. they are free Of
threats of an outfianking movement
from that direction.
sAoASAS IA sA4Acly 0ucl
Still. there has been no slackening
in the desperate fighting which has
been proceeding for some days in the
woods and roads along the right bank
of the Rawka river. from Borjimow to
the SkierniewiceW Warsaw road.
Here attacks of the Germans alter
nate with those of the Russians under
an artillery fire whose violence has
never been exceeded.
In the meantime the Russians arc
making slow progress in East Prussia
and are withstanding the attempts of
the Austro-German forces to take the
offensive on the River Nida in SOUTH
ern Poland, and on the Dunaiec river,
in Galicia. The Austrians admit the
loss of Tarnow, Galicia an important
center. possession of which by the Rus
slams insures the main line of COM
munications in western GaIicia.
Report of Russian Defeat.
BERLIN. February 6 Cby wireless).-
News dispatches received in Berlin
from Budapest, Hungary. speak of an
extensive shifting of troops by the
Russians in east Galicia and in Buko-
wilma. with the evident intention OF
maintaining the parts of these prov
inces occupied by them even at the ex-
pense of giving ground elsewhere. A
number of Russians who were captured
IN bukOWlna SAIQ they mad been sent
to that region from the vicinity of the
Austrian fortress of Przemysl
Another dispatch from Ungvar, in
northeastern Hungary, tells of a severe
defeat suffered by the Russians on the
so-called Lupkow Saddle. to the north
of the Zemplin country. Germans and
Austro- o-Hungarians Joined in this en-
gagement against the Russians.
A great lack of provisions prevails in
Warsaw, according to advices received
by the Frankfurter Zeitung. Some mil
lion rubles' worth of provisions, a mes
sage to this newspaper says. has ar
rived at Archangel destined for the
Polish capital. but Il 10 impossible to
say when the food can be delivered.