Jan. 7. ihe anxiety with which the aguung in what is conveniently called Ube eastern theatre of war 1s being watched is proportionate lo the dumensity of the field of operations and the indefatigable gallantry of Russia's armies. Difficult as it is to follow the progress of fighting in detail, we can realize that in no fewer than six directions Russia is maintaining a desperate struggle; and while Germany, in spite of concentrating in Central Poland all reinforcements that can be spared from the western theatre, has so far utterly failed in the main objective. Russia has scored notable successes in all other directions.
She has inflicted a heavy reverse on the Turks at Sarykamysh in the Caucasus, and at Ardaban or: Ardagan in Trans-Caucasia has routed another Turkish force.
Probably the Turks are lacking in equipment. But their part in the war is to distract Russian troops from other regions and this they can do well enough. In bukovina, the extreme southeast of Galicia, the Austro-German altuck, designed to turn the Russian left flank and raise the siege of Przemys! has ignominiously failed, as even Vienna admits, and Russia has, for the time being, cleared the province of her enemy who has lost heavily. On the lower Nida, which runs into the Vistula about forty miles east of Cracow, d in Western Galicia, Russia's record is one of slow but steady progress, ogum admitted in Vienna. In the direction of Mlawa, which lies in northern Poland a short distance from the East Prussian border, she has staved off a German invasion that might have developed into a flank advance on Warsaw.
And in Central Poland she has successfully stonewalled against the mightiest guns and heaviest masses of infantry that Germany could bring to bear, till even Berlin's official voice begins to sound a discouraged note.
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