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Show ilUuumflD 131 RIF-! !!P WINnlHb Reports From the Front Give Brief Details of the Important Victory on the Bzura River, Near Junction With the Vistula. DRIVE GERMANS OVER THE STREAM Military Authorities Believe Be-lieve Desperate Attacks Is a Shield for Removal of Forces Toward the Western Front in the Immediate Future. PETBOGEAD, Teh. 6. Tile following fol-lowing official communication from the Russian general staff was given giv-en out here tonight: "In East Prussia the tattle in the Inster and Szeszuppe valleys has assumed a more violent character. char-acter. "The battle front on the left bank of the Vistula (Russian Poland) Po-land) is spreading out muier a v.'-y violent artillery nro. In spite of the German counter attacks cur troops not only maintain their position po-sition on the left baiii of the Bzura river near its juncture with the Vistula, but havo undertaken a further offensive movement and have captured a very important point of support of the enemy north , of the village of Vitkovitze. "On an estate near Borjimow we have captured a considerable section of the Germans' intrenched line; also a portion of tho second line trenches, taking six rapid-tire guns. In the region of Borjimow the enemy has made three pronounced pro-nounced attacks without success." PETEOGKAD, Feb. 6 The latest reports from the front iu Eussiau Poland Po-land bring some brief details of the important Kussian victory on tho Bzura river. While the Germans with three-quarters of their forces along the Bzura continued con-tinued to hammer at the Kussian line, the Eussiaus seized this opportunity to throw their forces across tho Bzura at Kamion, near tha junction of the Bzura with the Vistula, and captured the Gorman Gor-man fortified position at this place. At the same time they drove tho Germans across the Bzura at Dakhova, which is close to Sochaczew. At Kamion the Russians captured a quantity of stool builot-proof shields which they immediately used in tho succeeding fighting. Guns Captured. They also took a number of quick-firing quick-firing guna from the enemy, and in this district and also on tho upper Eawna river they were successrul in charging a good many German outposts. iear Bonmow the Germans wen) unrelenting in their attacks anl the Kussians countered coun-tered with equal ferocity. The German forces repeatedly made use of armored motor cars on winch machine guns and quick-firers had been set up. A hail ol shrapnul from tho Russian lines, however, torccd them to retire. Eussiau military authorities aro of the opinion that tne despcrauon evinced by the Germans iu Russian Poland is a shield for the removal of forces toward the western front, and they compare these attacks with those delivered by General von Hindenburg iu the early weeks of the war when six corps of German soldiers were ruthed toward France. Artillery Engagements. From Skiernicwicn southward to Rn-dom Rn-dom and Kiclce, there liavo been scattering scat-tering artillerv engagements. Further south of this fine Anstro-Gernian Jurccs have attempted to take the offensive at Sjhernike, which is sixteen niils to the southwest of Kie'ce. and also at a point near Rembov, which is twenty miics further south on tho river .ida. . t Shernike tho Russians, anticipating an nttack, destroved the bric'go over tli-Nida tli-Nida and shelled the enemy from the opposite bonk, forcing Mm to red ire. At Rembov also the Russians rcpurt a victory. At habno which is ju't to the north of Tarnow. in Galicia, the Austrian m:idi- an attempt upon the Russian fortifications for-tifications on the left bank of the Thin-ajoe. Thin-ajoe. They endeavored to appro:iii bv means of .in elaborate system oi.' (Continued on Page Pive.j) . RUSSIAN ARMY WINNING IDE BIGBATTLES Reports From Front Give grief Details of Important Victory on the Bzura River. (Continued from Page One.) trenches, but they were uriven' out from tbee shelters at tho point of the bayo- e!u thn Carpathians, from Dukla pa?s t0 Uzsok and thence fifty miles directly south of Przemsyl, the 3ussiau9 report a continued advance in -which thev are rushing the eucmy to the boh tb . Three I'oousaud prisoners aro reported to have j,een taken in tho actions of the past ' three days. |