In the eastern theatre there have been greater doings Throughout
the week the Germans have made desperate attacks upon the Russian positions on the Bzura, fourteen regiments being engaged in these assaults. Fire from masses of artillery "ceased neither by day nor night." The net result of the attacks, which, according to the Petrograd correspondent of the Times, exceeded in intensity and in the number of troops engaged all the earlier German efforts on this front, has not been a success. The Germans have shown great gallantry, but it is the gallantry of the man who beats his head against a brick wall. In the Carpathians what has come to be called the Battle of the Passes is developing, great numbers of German troops being employed. If the German-Austrian defence fails, the plains of Hungary will be open to a Russian advance. In Eaat Prussia the Russians are steadily covering more ground, and the same may be said of the Russian forces operating in Poland north of the Vistula.
