gs all over the city.

Military critics attach great significance to the breaking of the
Russian lines and the consequent Russian retreat toward the Narew
River, particularly as the German advance between the Pissa and
Vistula rivers threatens to crumple the right flank positions of the
Russians.

With Field Marshal von Mackensen proceeding against the other flank,
the maintenance of communications offers a serious problem for the
Russians. The breaking of the Russian line near Krasnostav,
thirty-four miles south of Lublin, brings the Germans dangerously near
Cholm and Lublin, both of which points are of the highest importance
for the Russians in maintaining their position in the Vistula region.

The following official bulletin concerning the operations was issued
tonight by the War Office:

Portions of the army of General von Buelow have defeated the
Russian forces near Autz, where 3,620 men and six guns and
three machine guns were captured. They are pursuing the
enemy in an easterly direction.

Other portions of this army are fighting to the northeast of
Kurshany. East of that town an enemy advance position has
been stormed.

On the southeastern front the offensive was taken by the
army under General von Woyrich, which made successful
progress under the heavy fire of the enemy.

Our troops on Saturday morning took a narrow point in the
wire entanglements of a strongly fortified enemy main
position, and through this opening stormed an enemy trench
on a front of 2,000 meters (about a mile and a third). In
the course of the day the wedge was widened and pushed
forward, with tenacious hand-to-hand fighting, far into the
enemy's position.

In the evening the enemy's Moscow Grenadier Corps was
defeated by our landwehr and reserve troops. The enemy
retreated during the night behind the Iljanka River to the
district south of Zwolen, suffering heavy losses in their
retirement.

Between the Pissa and Vistula Rivers the Russian troops are
retreating and the troops of General von Schaltz and von
Gallwitz are close behind them.

The enemy is attacked and driven back where he offers
resistance in prepared positions.

Reserve troops and a levy of troops of General von Schaltz
have stormed the towns of Poremky and Wykplock, and
regiments of General von Gallwitz have bro