During the last week two rivers have again formed the main scenes of
action in the far-extended theatre of war--one the Yser, in Belgium, where
the advance of the Germans on Calais has been "stone-walled" by the
Allies; and the other on the Vistula, in Poland, where the Russians, by
sheer force of numbers and superior strategy, made very considerate
progress in their march on Berlin; so that, on the whole, the horoscope
remained most favourable to the Allies and the ultimate attainment of
their Common object.




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THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914--9


[Illustration: THE VICTORIOUS RUSSIAN CAVALRY IN ACTION: A CHARGE BY THE
GALLANT FORCE WHICH CROSSED THE CARPATHIANS INTO HUNGARY.]

In the recent victorious operations of the Russian Army the cavalry have
taken a conspicuous part. The Headquarters announcement from Petrograd of
November 10 said: "To the east of Neidenburg near the station of Muschaken
(in East Prussia, about two miles from the frontier), Russian cavalry
defeated a German detachment which was guarding the railway, captured
transport, and blew up two bridges over the railway. On the 8th inst. our
cavalry forced one of the enemy's cavalry divisions, which was supported
by a battalion of rifles, to retreat towards Kalisz (near the border of
German Poland)." The above drawing shows an engagement in Hungary between
an Austro-Hungarian force and a body of Russian cavalry who had crossed