The main enemy advance, however, is being made to the
south of this point by the armies under Marshal von Hindenburg between Vilna. and the Pripet marshes—a front of perhaps a hundred and fifty miles. The Russian army from Vilna is still being driven eastwards in the direction of Minsk, but it seems now to have definitely• escaped the 'danger of being cut off by the forces that threatened it from the north. These forces, the cavalry under General von Below, have evidently been severely repulsed, and the country round Vileika which they occupied upon the left flank of the retreat- ing Russians has now been cleared of the enemy. Hinden- burg, having thus failed to catch the Vilna armies in his pincers, is now apparently repeating his efforts upon those immediately to the south of them, which are retreating from Baranovitche upon Minsk. There is every reason to hope,. however, that he will be equally unsuccessful in this new attempt.
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