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Show AUSTRO-GERMANS REPORT CAPTURE OF TWO CITIES (Sp-vlil ('!. t.v AniiK."' 'l'Ti tendon I'all? Tlrtrapli ami limrnai loiin 1 Nnwn S"rlce. J lOS'Pt'N, Auk. U'. -.nmbrnwa. near a Junction ttf t he Warsaw - I'etroKi ad railway rail-way and Its Of troli nka bntneh, and ! .uliow, a v ital point on t he WurKaw-Hi-fst I.ltovak line woutll of Selllce, have been taken by Iho lerriiana, aei-oi din-: to t ho official new from Herlln tonight. to-night. . A semi-official dispatch rontalnw the Important announcement that Marshal von Maeken?-'on ban pressed Ills advaiiet to within thirty miles of Itrest Idio'Nk, (he key lortresa of the er.ar'M necnnd line. , He in rUhltiiK lufly u- tlon-7 with .stion , Ku'UHli le.ir KimnlM on a fnml Hlreteh- ! lu from the Huk t" the Hyutrzyco. t KlKtitliiK of sustained violence la helnif t w.inisl on a wide front In tne HaHic provincew, where the i.ermans are beinK held in eheck in tlieir nffm-dve iivnint lllya. K'ovno, Vilna .ind iHlnsk. AUIioukIi the population of all four tow tvM are in fllKht before the Co-rn.ans w ho have ad-' vaneed their fmnt to the lrin:t. the f'.er-mans f'.er-mans liave been uti;i Mti to net nearer FtlKH nnd Kovno. l spite a vast expenditure, expendi-ture, of men mid ammunition. Herllw has little to say of thin fik'httnpr. merely repurlln th opening of a eiromc offensive by the army of t o neral von Kt-!!orn In the Irina section. Tetiocrad, however, reports the repni-e of attacks before Kono and Rita, the latter operations opera-tions beitiK nudt-r the persona! comniand of Von I linden tm tk. Russian military writers alreaoiy are dlcuiiiK the possibility possi-bility of a ;.! man driv e on lm Krad an. I the means m Kiik.h!h'h tlit-po-al to CtitnUit jsu-'h a iiicivenojiit. The H.iltic , forces of .Marshal von I ilndenhurK' are los t)ian auu rnil'n fnim the Russian capital. |