We must once more confess to finding it very difficult
to give any coherent account of what has happened or is happen- ing in the Polish theatre of war, so conflicting are the Russian and German official statements. For example, we are told that Lemberg has been evacuated by the Russians, but at the same time Friday's Times publishes a telegram from ite special correspondent at Lemberg, dated October 15th, describing how well the Russians are behaving in the town. Again, in the case of Przemysl a telegram from the Times correspondent at Petrograd declares that there has been a Russian success south of the city. At the same time the German talk is all of the relief of PrzemysL Meanwhile in the centre of the vast line which stretches roughly from Tilsit to the Carpathians, we hear of the Germans having penetrated over a hundred miles into Poland, and of their advance troops being within twenty-five miles of Warsaw.
