News from the western theatre of the war during the
past week has been without any marked features, but from the eastern were received on Friday reports of a. distinctly encouraging character. The Austrian armiea in Eastern Galicia are apparently getting into trouble—the kind of trouble that throughout history has fallen upon those who have pressed too hard upon a Russian retreating force. At the.worst the Austrian advance has been checked, and at the best it may prove that the Austrians are in very serious danger. It is stated that bodies of Russians are again pouring southward across the Carpathians immediately on the left flank of the Austrian forces which penetrated into the Bukowina and South- Eastern Galicia. The Times correspondent at Petrograd points out that the line of communications for the Austro- German corps in the. Bukowina rests on the Roumanian border. It is not necessary to dwell further upon the perils of such a position.
