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Show hrhNfiK ftHNi badly bhteh it jboitz Stubborn Artillery Battle in Russian Poland Results in Victory for Muscovites; Teutons Retreating. DEFEAT UPSETS THE PLANS OF KAISER Whole Line Along the East Prussian Frontier Endangered; Endan-gered; Battle Continues on Pruth River. PETEOGEAD, Fob. 20, via London, 9:15 p. m. The German forces have been badly beaten at the fortress of Ossowetz, twenty miles northeast of Lomza, in Russian Poland, after a stub-. stub-. born artillery battle, according to a telegram from the Kussian general staff to a high, personage here. The Germans Ger-mans are reported to have suffered heavy losses and are now retreating to the East Prussian frontier. The department of agriculture at Pet-rograd, Pet-rograd, upon which devolved the duty of making dispositions of war prisoners, pris-oners, resolved today to apportion those of Slavic origin Poles, Luthenians. Bohemians, Bo-hemians, Croatians and Slovaks among farms for what is termed free labor. On the farms these prisoners will not be under guard. Germans, .Austrians and Hungarians will be used in road building and canal construction. Wages will be paidj from which will be deducted the cost or their clothing and of maintaining a guard over them. The public instructions departmenc lias taken steps to send a representative through the war zone for the purpose of collecting objects of art, historical documents, books and .other articles, which have been scattered by the war. These will be removed to a place 01 Eaiety. |