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Show TEUTONS CCilSlUE- 900 Russian Prisoners Taken; Petrograd Admits Ad-mits Retirement of Troops to the Northward, North-ward, Owing to the Presence of Superior Forces. REPULSE ATTACK ' ON THE DANUBE Bulgarians Driven Into Lake Ibolota by Daring Dar-ing Attack of Muscovite Musco-vite Regiment and Many of Them Are Drowned; 2 Turkish Motor Gunboats Sunk. RKRTJX, Deo. 22, by wirclcps to Say-villo. Say-villo. Teutonic forces continue to fld-vanco fld-vanco in t he Dobrndja find hnvo tnken 90U .KusHian trisonors, rnys t lie oflicial statemcut, issued from tho lierman general gen-eral headquarters today. On tho otber fronts there 1ms boon Kit littlo itc-tivit itc-tivit v. The slatement fid lows: Western Jlieater: ?s'c:i' the const in tho Soimne nor tor nnd oil t ho cast bank of the Mouse the artillery artil-lery activity incronsed during tlm afternoon . hours. On I ne Vser a lielpiau outpost was taken. Jastern war tlieatnr- Front of Prince Leopold: Alone tho Jhina and on' tho Stokhod tho Rossi;. n artillery fire continued for a buig time. An advance of two hostile companies sout hcA8t of ia was repulsed. Northwest of Zalo.stse (Galicia ) (ionium ad va need t roois out i1 red bot h the most ud van red H)sitioiiH nt' tho Jhissians and tlin village of Zvyzyn and returned after aft-er destroying four mine tbroworn and ca pt nriny t liirty-four pj itionei s and two niacliinn nna. Front of Archduke .To?eph: A hostile, night attach on t 'puedlemer, north of Trotus valley, fnilcH. Army gron p of Field M n rshal A on M acheiiscn : tit (in-at Walla-cliia Walla-cliia the situation unchanged. Tho Dobrtidja army continues to make progress and has ta Iwu IhKi prisoners from the Russians. Maceilonian front : On tin- Struma Stru-ma there were patrol skirmishes, russianTroops in the dobrudja are retreating rrrntOGKAIh 1: ri, via London. ?. p. m., I'.rlilrti nonilialty p"r Vlrr-fps Press. T'.iis.inn troop:-; In tho norih"rn port of ih" i:uinfini;in iirovircf ff Imh-rnoi:L, Imh-rnoi:L, h'il1I I n 1 1 ;i 1: ii yrff fid;i v nlin- thf whojn front hy nn lii'Tl' n My superior Teutonic foj-ei s. s;iy. thr- JiunHiun offl'iiil FlJit'Trfiit l.nH to0;.y, huve he-run he-run u further rctiremetit t') the, noith-Vftnl. noith-Vftnl. Tiie statement Yfnp: nuTr.iiTibin fionl: 'n lh- 1 r- f t h.mlt of Ihc I '.-mu'oc ;icivc :tM..,, pi. i,y il,--r-ncn v to uiUi'k UH were rcpulHc hy our tire. In I 'o'-rii'! ia. t lie en cm v. oti-per oti-per i or f "res, n i l;i' k"! our rl-i fir )j-rn-nH nioiiL- the whole front. A Her M'.:.!."rn i re our l"i;i''lui.i ni oiiiiri"iifi.-fJ to wilh'luiw lo the nurUl-w;i nurUl-w;i ' 'i. Hv a ilarin- iid.vli of un" of nnr rti'hl'fMitS III- iu;;;;iri:.'TiK who h:nl H'Jva?.' - to the f .-isl of I, ah- Uahn-r'-.L-U from the Vilh-ie of J.ni'-al WIT9 t':,ro-.-n Into lilie Ih'iata ;,n a p-'iit-,.r ,:nt of ti.e-n V.'-r- l rr.v n . fnifl tiunMf cl ii nr! Iif : 'en wt'j i uhen prin- OTi'T. I F"M ' a ve f-ink t wo Tu: k.sli motor v un'.oji BRITISH CAPTURE FORTIFIED TOWN NEAR SUEZ CANAL : )S1 CS. I'fc ' An.'li. ninety rr, ',). --- of t h- Sue, c;i na I, wijh o.'ip- fire.J yrt'u lav ).y Hi" :ritish. 71,'' t'"" of the lit it!:- official Rtnte r.-r: anno in' ;n tiie c;ijjturc of F,l Arish hh y s : Vesterc'.iy the Kc'.-jili.'m town of KI Arislj :iH o'cupjc'l by our troops, filter hehii; for yefus in lllp hanfiH of the enemy. From the fact thnt th (Continued ou paa Thirtcoa TEUTONS COIIIJE DOBfjUOJA ADVANCE (Continued from Page One.) enemy had construeted a very strong intrenched position covering: the town and that a lar.se amount of work recently re-cently had been carried out there, it appeared that the enemy had every intention ot" offering a stubborn resistance. re-sistance. They abandoned their position Tuesday night and retreated to the east and southeast. It. is a serious blow to the Turks from a. moral and from a military point of view. i EI Arish is a fortified town of Egypt on the Mediterranean, near the frontier of Palestirfe. It is a town of less than 20,ono population, in territory which had been held by the Turks since the time of their invasion of Esrypt and unsuccessful unsuc-cessful attack on the Suez canal. |