In the eastern theatre of the war the news is
again very good, but here, of course, the movements are on a much greater scale than in the closely balanced western front. What appears to be happening is that the Russians are pushing on a broad • front through the Carpathians, and that they now bold all the summits of the main range. When once through the Carpathians and the foothills to the south, there will be very little to stop the Russians in their march through the Hungarian plain to Budapest. It is evident that the Austrians are straining every nerve, and will use their last man and their last cartridge to prevent, if they can, the deboaching of the Russians into the plain. As far as one can see,the Carpathians—using that expression to cover the whole of the mountain-range—are Hungary's last ditch. Proof that this is so is to be found in the fact that the Germans, at the urgent demand of their allies, have withdrawn large forces
from East Prussia and hurried them to the southern field of operations.
