"The progress of the battle on the northern front in France is considered here as being highly favourable. Yesterday's report containing the news that the French had been thrown back across the Aisne near Soissons and that the operations had been extended to the west front of Verdun, is regarded as being the best report issued for some time.
Letters from the front describe the fighting between Nieuport and Ypres as probably the fiercest of the entire war. The Germans have forced a way southward by repeated night attacks. The toll of death is large on both sides.
The battle in Poland has not yet been recommenced.
The events in Galicia seem, according to the reports of the special correspondents, to be approaching a decisive point. A despatch from Cracow says that the Russians have been thrown back across the San and have been rejected from Lezajsk, whence the Austrians have pursued the Russians twenty kilometres.
The official Austrian report merely states: The Austrians in Central Galicia retain all posi captured north-east of Turka, near Starysambor, east of Przemys! and om the lower San river and have "eaten off the attacks near Nisko.
"The Austrians have made many prisoners. A Russian column of li arms has been defeated north of Kuty on the frontier of Bukovina and Galicia.
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