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Show FIERCE FIGHTING ALONG THE BZURA AND RAWKA RIVERS By GEANVTLLE FOETESCTJE Spe al Cat) a by Arrangemen W h London Dal y Te es apb and In e na on fews srvlce ) WARSAW Dec 27 T e f ght ng for t e Bzura s a desperate and endless strugg e Manj days of see saw battle f nd the Germans st 1 press ng the major part of e m tary n gh aga nst the ang e made by the Bzu a and Rawka with the Pi ca river Charge and coun e charge have been the order of the day and of the nigl t , As at t e Tser the Germans seem to ha e staked all on the cross ng of the Bzura Under cove of night they t rew a pon oon br dge across the river but when t e troops appeared above the sharp banks of the e ow strean they were swept away by the Russian gunfi e io owing t e nes of the r vef s are wo para el rows of t en hes The Ger mans are on the one bank and the Rus slans on the othe They stretc f om north to south without a brea,k The soldiers In these trenc es pour an un ceasing fi e into one another day and n g t. River Bank a Shamblea South of Sochazcew the Russians let the Ge mans oross e river at night unt e e were about 15 000 on the east sho e Then with the force of a flood corps upon co -ps of Russ ans c osed in on th ee s des of the enemy The en tang ed d vis on fought with the despera on of he ondemned but w en norn aga s owed 8000 Germa pr soners wp e n a ng dejected a ong t e Ka h oads oward Warsaw r p earn s bank was a s amb es Of t ose n u ed u one a f we e ed o td Be o v Soc azcew the o s ad o e t a f v ya ds ac oss The s g gush Se low s ream flows betwee gh b k RTifl Trmke he rf t These banks rise almost perpend cu arly th rty feet above tB water and from the top they s ope back at a gentle ang e which gives an idea field for f re At certain points the banks are wooded and here the batter es and the mach se guns were p aced The Germans sue ceeded in oCtting across the river on December 22 Soon they were drhen back into the freez ng waters Advance Along Railroad Wh e the attempt to hold t e passage gained at Bol mow was at Its heig t the Germans were push ng through another advance along the ra road 1 ne from Sk erniewice Tl e r hope was to take that po nt and thus control the splend d bridge across, the river together wth the two rai road 1 nes entering the place The Russians have been making sp en d d counter attacks during the n g ts They have such numbe s of reserves that the ca be effective y u ed It is idle to say that hese have not been days of anx ety in Warsaw for as each new move of the German offens ve develops the quest on arises of how the Russ ans are go ng to meet it It cannot be den ed that the new advance from the south of the Pi lea has threatened our left for two days now, but a 1 reports po nt to a German check Now comes the w ord that co umns are headed south t om Maw a once more which means that the army whic was beaten in that d strict last week has come back heavi y re nforced From the number of troops In this vlcinitj I can not see how t cou d ever be ecessa y to call for troops from across the s tula |