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Show RUSS FAIL TO CHECK GERMANS 'ON, i t b. 1 7. The Daily Chronicle's Chron-icle's correspondent with the Russia n armv in pukowina sends a description of the despei a te nhl ing a round t V.eriiowilz a nd t he (light of t h mi sands of lug I lives. Ills dispatch h rlated from No osehuu, on the Russian frontier. February IV II. is as billows: The Cerma us nd A m-1 ria ns. In r.vcrwdielnilnu numbers, a t tacked I lie Pmsian portions from three directions, direc-tions, their infers numbering at least Ihtee army corns. They crossed the Sereth river at two points tlftoen miles. aiart. while the. third column ad a nerd dow n Ihe va Hey of the Pruth river from Wa shkivlt ?,a . Mespil" the terrible losses indicted bv the Russian artillery, (lie lirst two columns succeeded in crossing the Sereth and threaienetl to cut off Ihe Russian retreat from fV.ernowjtr,. Tiie fighting became desperate and continuous contin-uous all about the ejty, the Russians putting up a magnificent rear guard action. The Russian position in front of Czernov. itz was on a snowclad plateau. pla-teau. The Germans crossed the valley to this plateau this morning", losing thousands of men. whose bodies are plainly visible on Ihe surface of the snow. The survivors flung themselves, them-selves, fighting desperately, into the Russian trenches. The battle here was still going on when the correspondent left the city. He srf vep a description of the flight of the fugitives across the Flu mania n frontier, but says this road of escape was cut off by the Austrians later In tho day. |