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Show RUSSIANS DRIVE FOE BACK FORTY MILES, IS CLAIM By FREDERICK RENNET. tSpeclal Cabla by Arransiiiant with London DIlr Telegraph asd International News Service ) PETROGRAD, Aug. 31. Friedrlchstadt continues to be the immediate object of the Germans in the north. Thev see in It the key to the Riga and Dvinek routes and hence are moving against Blrsgallen for the purpose of turning the western positions of Friedrlchstadt Westward of Dvinsk the Russians are fighting successfully, having thrown the Germans back a distance of forty miles The slow retreat from the Niemen Is being continued methodically despite General Gen-eral von Elchhom's attempt to separate the Vilna and Grodno contingents The withdrawal is being covered by Grodno which, although more of a fortified camp than a fortress, serves the purpose sufficiently. suf-ficiently. It is now clear that the armies ot Generals von Llnsingen and Pfsanger in the region of Buckowina and the Dniester Dnies-ter have been greatly strengthened by reinforcements brought along the southern south-ern railways of Hungary. These reinforcements rein-forcements were drawn from the various fronts and placed under the command of General Puhlakow. who awaited the fall of Brest LItovsk before beginning an advance from Vladimir Volynski under un-der cover of General von Mackensen's army. The latter's deep turning move however, was frustrated. Experts regard calmly the operations in the south, believing that the enemy soon will be checked by the locality in which lie1 is advancing. In the region of Sokal, Galicia; Russian Rus-sian aviators threw bombs which exploded ex-ploded in a depot of asphvxlating gas reservoirs, killing twenty-seven German officers. |