Tue announcement in to-day's telegrams that the Russians have occupied both Kielce and Sandomir, and that the Austrians have been driven westwards of the line denoted by these two towns, is one of very great importance. Sandomir lies on the west bank of the Vistula, very nearly where the San flows into that river, and is consequently a position of much value for the fighting both in Poland and nor-them Galicia. It also completes the Russian line of advance which now cuts north-westwards across lower Poland very nearly to the Silesian border from Sandomir, through Kielce, Petrokovo and Lask. In respect of this line, it seams probable that yesterday's message made a slip in speaking of fierce fighting on the Kielce-Radom line, and that it should have said Kielce-Radjische, the line indicated the day before, and which forms part of the line Kielce-Petrokovo,—Radom lying a considerable distance to the north-eastward. The point, however, is not of very great importance, as with Petroveko, Kielce and Opozno (reported occupied on November 1) in Ru: sian hands, any of the enemy in the Radom district are practically bound to go before long. In surveying the fighting in the eastern theatre, the country may. be divided into five districts: Eastern Prussia, the triangle between Tiyck, Augustovo and Bakalarjevo, which latter may be described as near Suwalki; central Poland, northwards of the river Pilica and southwards of the Vistula, which turns westwards below Warsaw; southern Poland, that is northwards of the Vistula where it flows along the frontier of Galicia and southwards of the Pilica; northern Galicia: and southern Galicia, the line of division here being drawn from Cracow to Przemysl.
Looking back on bygone telegrams it is apparent that after the occupation of Jaroslav by. the Russians and their closing in on Przemysl, the Austrian army was reformed with German assistance and a treble combined movement was commenced, possibly about the end of September, when the Russian victory over the Germans at Augustovo warned the latter that the Russian armies were beginning to move in real earnest. This movement
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