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Show DRIVE IN RUSSIA IS CHECKED Marked Change for the Better Is Seen in Petro-grad; Petro-grad; Leading Teutonic Teuton-ic Column Is Turned Back Toward the East Prussian Border. GERMAN CANNON LOST IN RIVER Big Guns Useless, and Light Artillery Breaks Through Ice; Pontoons and Hundreds of Prisoners Pris-oners Are Captured by the Russians. By FREDERICK RENNETT. (Spet-l&I CaM b7 Arrangement With London DailJ Telegraph and International News Service.) PETIiOGRAD, Feb. 23. A marked change for the better is now apparent in the operations apainst the German advance from East Prussia. The tide turned on Sunday, when the easternmost; eastern-most; German column was forced back by a Kussian force made up of the divisions di-visions from. Grodno. The Germans were attacked among the marsh streams between the source of the. Bobr and the left bank of the Xiemen. The Germans tried to man-haul man-haul their light guns on sledges across the frozen streams, but they broke through the ice. Their heavy guns remained re-mained well behind and were scarcely used. The Russian heavy guns on the Grodno roads shelled the German main column over the heads of the infantry, which was skirmishing among the frozen marshes. In three hours the Germans fell back and then moved westward, leaving a large collection of pontoons, besides several submerged light guns and several hundred dead. They trekked across the snow along the right bank of the Bobr, skirting wide from the fortress of Ossowiec, where the long-range guns were shelling the next German column, which was hastening to reinforce their comrades. Germans Reorganize. The army from Johannesburg was trying try-ing to secure the valuable enclave of the Bobr and the Narew, ending at the Lom-za, Lom-za, fortress; for the Germans, but the Russians, after stubborn and repeated charges and hours of desperate bayonet ! fighting, drove all the Germans from thie 1 region tack upon the- East Prussian , frontier, where there is again a hurried movement ol enemy's trains. There are Figns that the Germans arc gaining greater forces at Pr&snysh, where their position Ig still difficult, but The Russians farther to the w-st have greatly Improve tbslr situation. Some hundred German prisoners have bem taken in th village in tins region. The Ge r ma n s 1 : av n a ba n d o n ed rn a n y of t h e i r desperately onteFt':d Iiitrenchmeiitu ther an! along the Rawka. The only "ountr movement In central Poland to the prf;.tji e. of t .ho f: ij3.,ia n forward movement took; the mode of an attack on the north bank of trie I'ill'-a. westward, of tiie old line of contact. The a'fa-k. was readily rpulf.ed. Austrians Held Back. The Aufitro-Germa n operarioru: it) the xtrr.e Koutf-.fraaf evidently are yirn'-d at I falk-z an liri porta nt rl vr and rail-way rail-way junction on Ine Dm ester. A larK'j AuKtrian force in the region of atanlslaw probably hopd to rench Ifatlcz, but tiie RuHsiariR a.tta'-k"d them flrft. Tii'dr arm", w h i 1 1 croapd to the right bn nk of tiie Bruth ten da vs .a go, was hanging all the while on the Austrian Hani-:, and when the Annularis; a 1 1 r-mptwl 'o move from y'aniHlaw the iOiyy.Uum on the west, nt-a r Die outlet of Wynhkow patsH, vis"rou;iiy attacked their left wing. 'I ne Jigiitirg that (oilow'l fimonK tin-i tin-i woody Jilopes midway between Sianiflw aud Wvwhkow d"elop"d tut a. hot bat-. bat-. tie. After an entire day at f.Io.c-ra ni'.f rifle fini the ba vonet v.n n n ft. l t he t li ny- laiiM d''sl royf'd t wo A im I rift n brl-;i:jjrjf brl-;i:jjrjf which v.fif HpHra.i':d from th'1 I main bo-lv aii'I had fallen ba- k uti c'lun-. c'lun-. i;-.!;t W. j a rn na icn has bffuii: dal ly more vir:ur-O'im. vir:ur-O'im. '-specially in if t-.tft. Th" I.UF'yiann 'or''iiii;e mov- slowlv to the I funca.na ti piahi foulii of Dukia. pas. In liie pnfif;n rartiier to flic r-a ,t tii- "firmans aro rdp idly ,tpproa. hlni; ;, joriflor. when It will be nt'sary to t.t!nt; Jmother arm into fluntrary or allo-.v A uM rl,i to ab;jn'iori .n enNr" P'hcinr ,,T a ! U- ? ; : . 1 1 1 1 ;.; a M'rlliif 'anipain in rom lin'ii 'hul''ia. Swiss Seize ('opper. 'Pr-!i "tr.J ,j A'rtrn'm'-nt, With t-ondin 011? ''f)'Zrj,r u1 In'ei in-I'ir.al ."'" Hrvl'. i f'"Cf JJ.VE. .Swi.-i!: ml. b. i':;. 'I'he I';ili:Mi cuMoio-s w u 1 if h at thj Intcr-nuihinal Intcr-nuihinal fjpUuu of r-hia;;?r; have -. I zed ' b-r of ba r of coj.pr-r found hldd-n In - fr'-U'ht r.i r I.-hI-h with vr.K,:f;,hU.. Minn Mhowln;; II. at. t -n i J;:f Ji r. ,,,, (;,., r, ,,, , , v ,v v.tiy of f,'-i land f li pro-r.Jint;. |