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EUROPEAN WAR DEVELOPMENTS. It is olficiallv announced by the Russian government - that the Germans have failed in their attempt t to break the Russian center in front qf Warsayv. The expectation in London istliaf Tield Marshal von i Hindenhurg must order a retreat or find himself t in the situation that ruined Napoleon in 1S12. The . :most definite news of German failure conies not t "from Petrograd, but from Berlin. The German war r office admits that the German forces along the river r Bzura are no longer attacking. This admission I seems to show that the Germans have paid dearly 1- for their invasion of Poland and that the loss of f 50,000 killed, wounded and missing in the Inst two t necks has brought them little nearer to Warsaw-Thev got across the Bzura i one place only. This s was at a village south of Foehaczow, thirty miles-West s. or Warsaw. They tried desperately to hold ,1 the position long enough for the arrival of the L. main forces. But the Russians shelled tin; invaders ! out of the village according to Petrograd ,j advices. An attack by British cruisers, destroyers and hydroplanes ou the German naval base in the North sea, of which Wilhelinshaven and Cuxhaven are important centers, is reported in a statement from the German adinirality: "The admirality reports to-daV," Z the statement asserted, "that on December 25 eight British ships made a dash into a German bay. :- Hvdroplanes convoyed by them advanced against the luouths of the German rivers and hurled bombs at lt the anchored ships there and a gas tank near Cuxhaven. :" without hitting thoin or doing any damage. 3- The hydroplanes were fired upon and withdrew to 0 the west. German airships and aeroplanes recon-noitered l" against the British forces and lilt with II lxiinbs two British destroyers and one convoy. Fire u started on the latter. Fog prevented a continuation n of the fighting." It is believed at Petrograd that Frzemsyl is at its s last gasp. .Infrequent sorties, all ending in disaster, - have weakened, if not destroyed the morals ? of the defenders. Nothing appears left for them 11 but surrender or annihilation. Desperate efTorts of the Austrian to relieve the fortress have signally failed, according to the Russians. Diplomatic conversations are actually in progress ,s on the question of bringing- Japanese troops to Europe lc to light with tlie allies, according to a statement by y Stephen Piehou, former minister of war, in the 10 Paris Petit Journal.
