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Show GERMANS MUST CAPTURE WARSAW AT ALL HAZARDS IX5VDON Dec IS S a- m No deft nite news has vet come from the Russian ide of the great German victory In Poland Po-land reported In Berlin and "Vienna The Pusslan offlclal headquarters report re celved tonight gi es no nformatlon on the subject, and the customary long Petro grad d "patches deal ng with the military operations In this district are abent from the London newspapers this morning which would seem to indicate that a en sorsh p has been tapo ed on Petrograd A. Petrograd d spatch to the Dai! Mail dated Thursday refers at some length to the alleged Instructions of the uerman emperor to his staff that an attempt to capture Warsaw must be made at al tiaz ards Rumors of such instructions have been current for some da s and accord ng to the No oe remva the plan Is connect ed with the idea that tl e capture of W ar eaw would provide a suitable moment for the proposal of a peace conference The Novoe Vremya says The very violence with which the Ger man efforts are being made prove that some great gain is sought- According to other accounts Germany Is emplovlng oO 000 men in the movement toward "Warsaw The Dailv Mail s correspondent says the Russian retirement on Socharaew is gen erally approved as se Trie posi on there s protected bv swamps and com mands the surround ng country Unfortunately the Daily Ma 1 s corre spondent continues It seems as If Ger man mobi Ity has again given them ea periority over numbers The Russ ans supposed they had suffic ent men present to check the Germans at th s point, but It s believed that the Ge n ans b ought troops amund from Mlawa thus weaken ine the f e there which has s n e been chaed to the frontier The Germans also we e greatly reinforced from another quarto at d the fight! g is described as extremely violent |