Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-01-24

the lower Vistula are now fifty miles
| tarther west than the Germans in the
direction of Warsaw: SO that a SUCCESS
ful crossing of the vistula would make
| rank attack by either army possible
me Germans are keeping very care
Iui r guard over possible passage of the
| river above Plock, evidently for th,.
! reason. but the Russian objectfye an
pears to lie to the north rather than to
the south. W
On the whole. however. the Austro-
Germans. for political reasons mus,
divert their attention to the southeast
where the Russians are pressing
| through the mountains toward Tran
| sylvania.
f, According to Russian statemepts
strons Austrian forces already have
peen encountered and there is a sue-
eestion that the Russians are expected
70 meet serious opposition before long
me attacks in front of Warsaw have
crown less frequent and apparently are
not befng pushed with the same deter
mination as previously. In the Car
pathians the armies are snowbound.
Orders Medical Supplies.
GENEVA, Switzerland. January 2s
fvia Paris. January 23).-The Rou-
manian government has placed an
| order with Swiss firms for medical
requisites and drugs worth a million
| crowns. All manians, mostly stu
dents, have left Switzerland. Those
| from Germany and France continue to
arrive at Buchs, on the Swiss-Austrian
frontier. bound for Bucharest.
Denies Mobilization.
BERLIN tvia The Hague and Lon
don).-The war office here has not re-
| ceived any official confirmation of the
| Swiss and Italian reports regarding
Roumanian mobilization. for which, il
Is stated, the necessary royal decree
| has not yet been issued.
Swiss Frontier Guard.
PARIS. January 23.-The Swiss troops
tions of their frontier on account OF
! the uncertainty of the situation. ac-
cording to telegraphic information re-
! ceived here from Geneva
The Temps. which hitherto has been
skeptical. now accepts the idea that
there is to be immediate intervention
by Italy and Roumania in the war.
Watch German Movements.
PETROGRAD. January 23.-Durins
the last month Russian military au-
thorities have been receiving informa-
tion that all the railroad lines leading
from fTuSSidn SlleSla through Hun
gary to the Roumanian frontier and
Bukowina have been closed to non
military traffic. while hundreds of
trains loaded with troops and muni-
tions have been forwarded from Ger
many. 1t has been noted. moreover.
that during this time no reinforcements
have arrived at the fields of action on
either side of the Lower Nistula while
the Austrians seemingly are attempting
merely to hold and fortify their posi-
tions along the Dunajec.
Russian staff officers state that when
the war began the Germans were con-
fident that the Russians would direct
all their efforts toward the western
frontier, and that consequently Buko-
wilma and the Carpathian passes were
left insufficiently defended.
The Russians profited from this situa-
ton driving the Austrians from the
Russian province of Nolhynia and from
eastern Poland, and pursuing them into
the plains of northern Hungary.
In central Poland. il is said. the Rus
slams attempted to do nothing more
than to straighten their lines along the
Vistula, Bzura and Munajec, but they
still continue an offensive movement
northwest Of Warsaw. In this section
the Russian line today extends from
the East Prussian frontier to Chorzel-
len southwest through Radzanowo and
Sierpez to the Vistula at Dobrzyn.
The next aggressive move on the part
)of the Germans 10 expected to be an et-
fort In conjunction with the Austrians
To expel the Russian invaders from the
eastern Galician passes and from Buko-
wins and Hungary. This move, II sue