In the eastern theatre of the war the news is
solely good. There seems little doubt that in the north, on the extreme of the Russian right wing, the German advance has not only keen checked, but that the Germans are actually in retreat, and our ally's flank once more made secure at a vital point. The Austrian Army in the Carpathians has evidently been in very great trouble, and the news from Eastern Galicia points to the fact that we may soon see the Russians again in occupation of the Bakowina. There is, indeed, no longer any anxiety in regard to the extreme left of the Russian forces. A telegram from the Petrograd correspondent of the Daily Mad, dated Thursday, shows, indeed, that at the base of the Carpathians, in the region of Stanislau, the Austrians lost over fourteen thousand men in the ten days' fighting at the end of February and the beginning of March. The Daily Maid despatch from which we quote ends by declaring that the blow in East Prussia to General von Hindenbarg's army will pre- vent him from being able to send any assistance to the west if and when the pressure becomes strong there. He is far more likely to ask for assistance in order to extricate himself from his present position. His losses, not only in his so-called successes, but in the counter-attack, must have been excep- tionally heavy.
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