Evening star., 1915-02-09
BATTLE HAS SUBSIDED
ON THE WARSAW FRONT
Germans Take Offensive From Gum.
binnen as Far South as
Lpno.
RUSSIANS CLAIM SUCCESS
Enemy Said to Have Suffered Con-
siderable Losses in Direction
of Nicola aborcz-Retire-
ment in Bukowina.

LONDON, February o.-An
official dispatch received from
Cairo states that the Turkish
army is in full retreat eastward.
There are no enemy forces with
in twenty miles of the Suez canal,
the dispatch says, except small re-
firing rear guards.
The engagements between Rus
slams and the foe are growing in
intensity at the two extremities
of the eastern battle front in
East Prussia, as we'll as in the
Carpathians, according to infor-
nation from Petrograd today.
The same news sets forth that
on the Warsaw front the battle
has subsided.
Germans on Offensive.
Tie fighting line from the province
Of Plock in Russian Poland as far
north as Tilsit. in East Prus l, is vir-
tualiy continuous. The Germans today
apparently are taking the offensive
from Gumbinnen and the Mazurian
lakes as far south as L;pno, in Poland.
on the right bank of the Vistula.
Russia claims that they have made
progress on the Hungarian side of the
western Carpathfan ranges as well as
Mezolaboroz, which resulted in driving
back the enemy with considera bic
losses in guns and prisoners.
Success and Retirement.
The Austro-German army is said to
have met reverses on the Galician side
Of the Uzsok and Beskid passes. Bal
ancing these Russian successes are the
Russian admission of their retirement
before strong forces in Bukowina and
the Austrian claim of having entered
the town of Kimpolung in the crown
land.
ly is assuming more desperate char
acter. This may account for the lull
on the Warsaw front, the East Prus-
sian forces may have been reinforced
by some of Field Marshal Won Hinden-
burgs veterans.
The fighting on the western front has
been taking its usual monotonous
course, with sporadic infantry assaults
on the trenches to an accompaniment
of artillery firing.
Situation Regarded Favorable.
Russian military critics regard The
situation in the Carpathians as favor
able from their point of view, and base
their opinion on the recent reported
-
the advance of Austrians when en-
countered on level ground, where the
Russians were able to manipulate their
forces to good advantage 1t was to
obtain the benefit of msfe open bat
tlefelds. according to the Russians.
that their troops retired from thu
mountains in certain sections of the
front, where the unfavora BILE nature of
the terrain prevented them from meet
ing the Austrian forces on advantage
Gus terms. This policy is believed here
to have been justified, in view of recent
events.
Russian Successes.
Reports from the front says that the
Russians have now succeeded definitely
in repulsing the Austrians' advance n
the neighborhood of Dulla, and have
taken Raketz on the frontier. The Rus
slams have pierced the Austrian line he
tween Sanok and Gumenno and have
taken Uezolaborcz. In this attack the
Russians captured $500 men and five
machine guns
According to the same advicey. re-
oeated German and Austro-H Hun gIri..n
,ssauits along the Hungarian frontier,
including Il particularly energetic at
-ack near the Tisza river. have been
by the use of bayonets.
Holy War Declared.
Among the items given out for pub
ication in Berlin by the Overseas News
Agency was the following:
The Constantinople daily news1Lper
rasfiri-Ekfiar asserts that holy war
,as been declared in Afghanistan and
hat the Baluchistan and East Persian
ribes have Joined it against British
ule.
The Berlin Tageblatt prints dispatch
rom its Constantinople correspondent
Who said he questioned the Turkish war
ministry with regard to reports that
turkish troops had crossed the Suez
anal and captured 1smailia or sunk
British ships.
Up to the present the correspondent
avs ..the only information is that the
for the campaign. traversed
he desert without difficulty or the loss
+ men or animals, and are now in q
osition east of the canal. and that con-
lets with the British troops have taken
lace east of the canal in the vicinity
f Ell Kantara and opposite Ismailia."