ON THE EASTERN FRONT.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2524, 21 December 1914, Page 3

ON THE EASTERN FRONT.

THE RUSSIAN CAALPAIGN

London, December 19. The Times Petrograd correspondent says General Hindenberg's rea lobjectire was not Warsaw but the prevention of the invasion of Silesia. Hence bis feverish activity and inability to adhere to consecutive line operations. Tho Russian plans were well served tcbre. The enemy advanced and was destroyed instead of waiting in the trenches. All efforts will only postpone the day of reckoning. The Russian armies are within a stone's throw of the Silesian border, north of Cracow, which is the real pivot of all the j present operations. Moreover, the! desperate hanking moves from Bruza and from the Carpathians merely serve to indicate that the Russians hold the pivot firmly whence they wiß duly sweep away the --flanking movements and advance into the heart of Germany. The Daily Telegraph's Petrograd correspondent says the Germans massing so many army corps along the Barrow Lloff-Lowicz front was obviously intended to tie down as many Russians as possible, and prevent them reinforcing the armies before Cracow and elsewhere. Ln Galicia, the Russians manwhile? are content with the j policy of subjecting Germany to the j process of attrition, Petrograd, December 20. Official.—A lull on almost the whole front on the left bank of the Vistula succeeds, the enemy's several days' attacks, all of which weee repulsed. The enemy's offensive in Western Galicia has been checked. \Ve aro successfully executing offensive operations on the Sanok-Lisko front, and captured 3000 prisoners and several machine guns. Paris, December 19. Advices from- Petrograd state the suddon lull on tho Vistula arises from tho awkward position of the Gorman left wing due to tho Russian success in the Mlava region. It is now certain that the German plan to seize the right bank of the Vistula by making a dash on tho left and simultaneously advancing from Mlava completely failed.

Oflienij.— Our artillery prevented the enemy's attempt to cross to tho right bank- of the Vistula near Dobr■ZJm. Wo forced the Germans to evacuate an island occupied in midstream and captured their' pontoons. Fighting at Bzura is beginning to develop. Several German attacks were repulsed. We captured 1000 prisoners on tiie left bank of tho Dunaiete, iv Western GeSicia. A strong force from the Przemysl garrison is trying to get ©ut in the direction of Bmreza.

TO-DAY'S WAR NEWS,