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Show I RUSSIANS MEET I I WITH A DEFEAT jj fl ' London, Aug. 15, 10:05 p. m. Hav- jjjji y lg recovered from the check Inflicted It 1 on' him early In the week by the Rus- lii fill lit slans, von Buelow, commanding that j jy I ' portion of the array of von Hlnden- ill M burg operating to the west of the IMjl river Dvinsk, again has taken the of- fensive and, according to the official M! report published by Berlin today, has H ' beaten the Russians in a battle In the IrKjt ' vicinity of Kubisko, and pushed them S back in a northeasterly direction, tak- imrJt inB more than 2000 prisoners. fl To the south before Kovno, the Rus- fl slans, according to the same source lH ' - f lnformatipn, made an unsuccessful jfiHtf Bortle from Kovno, which the Germans jlfln are now approaching. In the Polish IFjB'- i sector, the various German armies are W ' slowly drawing In their line and ad- Iftjf ; i ' A'anclng from the northwest and south jjf, . , of Brest-Li tovsk. WTiile they contln- jl ' i ue to take comparatively small j)l" .' groups of prisoners, they make no in ' claim to the capture of artiller' or m ii , booty, which is considered by military ltll ' "v 7 observers as a further Indication that Grand Duke Nicholas's armies continue contin-ue their orderly retreat and that for a long time to come will be able to prevent the Germans from detaching any part of their army for large Ventures Ven-tures elsewhere. There is no late news from the Dardanelles, Dar-danelles, but information is hourly expected of a new movement of which the landings by the allies last week were the preliminaries. Artols, the forest of the Argonne and the Vosges mountains continue to be the scenes of activity on the western west-ern front, but no serious battles are In progress In any of these regions. DAY OF QUIET-ON FRONT IN FRANCE Paris, Aug. 15, 10:30 p. m The following fol-lowing communication was Issued tonight: to-night: "The day has been quiet on the whole, of the front. "In the Argonne the intervention of our artillery has Interrupted the bombardment bom-bardment of the enemy at Courtes Chausses and at the FoIntaJne-Aux-Cbarmes. "In the sector of Bagatelle the explosion ex-plosion of a mine has resulted In a fight for the occupation of the crater, the mastors of which we h,ave remained. re-mained. "The enemy has fired a few shots at long range on the open town of Montdidler. Our counter artillery attack at-tack has stopped his fire. "As a reply to the bombardment of St. Die and our camp of Weithtrn (east of the Lingekopf), we have bombarded the railway station of St Maric-Aux-Mines and the German camp of Marrenstall." oo |