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Show GERfisfFlT RETREAT JNPOLAND OFFICIAL REPORT FROM RUSSIANS RUS-SIANS SAYS THE ENEMY LEFT MANY WOUNDED BEHIND. Attempts of Austrians to Cross the River San Have Been Checked and the Russians Are Assuming the Offensive There. Petrograd An official statement Issued here Wednesday night says: "The German troops which had occupied oc-cupied the roads leading to Warsaw in the region north of the river Pilit-za Pilit-za have heen repulsed and are now in full retreat, leaving their wounded on the battlefield. ''The Germans- have abandoned the positions they had fortified in advance. ad-vance. "The Russian troops are energetically energetic-ally advancing along the whole front. "The enemy is still occupying the left bank of the Vistula south of the Pilitza and as far as Sandomir. "The Russians, who had been gallantly gal-lantly holding for eight days the region re-gion of Kozenitz under most unfavorable unfavor-able conditions and heavy artillery fire, achieved considerable success on October 20 and their position on the left bank of the Vistula is now secured. se-cured. "The attempts of the Austrians to cross the river San below Przemysl have been checked and the Russians are assuming iue offensive there. "In the region south of Przemysl are found the remains of all the Austrian Aus-trian corps defeated in prior fights in Galicia. Here the Russian troops are energetically checking tne advance of numerous bodies of the enemy. "There is no essential change in jEast Prussia. -We are at present in touch with the enemy on a front covering cov-ering over 400 verts (about 267 miles) from the lower Bzoura to the slopes of the Carpathian mountains." |