RUSSIAN OPERATIONS.
STRONG. POSITION HELD. READY FOR ADVANCE. London, Sunday. The Timea' correspondent at Fetrograd states that General von Hidenberg's real objective is not the capture of Warsaw, but the prevention of the invasion of Silesia, hsnce his feverish activity Bnd inability to adhere to a consecutive line of operations. The Russian plans have been well served by the enemy's advances, By advancing instead of waiting in trenches, the Germans have suffered enormous losses. All their efforts only postpone the day of reckoning. The Russian armies are within a.stone's throw of tho Silesian border, north of Cracow, which is the real pivot of all the present operations. Moreover, ; the enemy's desperate flanking moves on the Bzura river and from the Carpathians merely serve to indicate that-tho Russians hold (he pivot firmly, "whence they will duly sweep away the flanking movements and advance into the heart of Germany. The Daily Telegraph's correspondent at Petrograd states that the Germans are massing so many army corps along the narrow liloff-Lowicz front, that the movement is ohviously intended to tie down as many Russian armies before Cracow and elsewhere in Galicia. The Russians meanwhile are content with the policy of subjecting Germany to a process of attrition. GERMAN STORIES RIDICULED. MYTHICAL VICTORIES. Petrograd, Sunday. An official rep n't states that the Russian artillery prevented the enemy's attempt to cross tho right bank of the Viatwln near Dobrizn,' 15 miles north-west of Plock. The Russians forced the German 3 to evacuate p.n island which they occupied in midstrean?, and captured their pontoons. Fichting in the Bzura river, further to the sotafh, i 3 develop. Several German attacks have been repulaed'. We captured 1000 prisoners on the left bank of the Dunaietz river, in Western Galicia. A' strong force from the Przemysl garrison t is. trying to gat out in the direction of Bmreza. A semi-official report ridicules tho Germans' claim to victory In .Poland. It is pointed out that the Germans do not give a single name.. until they slate the number of prisoners. Such fan-fare, the report states, may deceive the Germans and Austrians, but it docs not deceive, the people uf neutral countries. Really, adds the report, tho Germans have.been driven * from Bekhanotl, and the Russians are at the heels and already tripping them.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 732, 23 December 1914, Page 5
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381RUSSIAN OPERATIONS. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 732, 23 December 1914, Page 5
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