This week, for the first time for many months, the
chief interest of the war has shifted from the Eastern theatre; but operations are nevertheless continuing there with unabated activity. At the moment when the attack began upon the Western front the Austro-German forces were still advancing in Poland, though the strength of their thrust was clearly lessening, and in several places the Russian troops were able to make counter-attacks more effectively than at any earlier stage of their retreat. One result of the renewed activity of our allies is to make the fighting seem unusually confused, so that only a very rough account of it is at present possible. Following the line from north to south, we may begin by mentioning that any direct attack on Riga seems for the moment to have been abandoned. Violent and unsuccessful attacks, on the other hand, have been made upon the fortified position of Dvinsk, which lies some hundred miles north-east along the main railway from Vilna to Petrograd.
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