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Show CZAR'S FORCES fl ' PRESSING F0i RUSSIANS REPORTED ON o?F" SIVE ALONG WHOLE ffty. FROM BALTIC TO RO'JirfAM; I J Germans in. North Poland g, Pushed Back to the East Pru;E;.. Borders Austrians Claim Vic. " tory Over Russians. j The Russians now are on the c ' sive along the whole of their '- ! from the Baltic sea to the Rouir.; border and in the Caucasus and cording to a Stockholm dispatch - have concentrated an enormous s ber of soldiers on the coait o: -land to prevent any attempt bv Germans to land there. All the Russian advances, actor If to Petrograd advices, are proct- ti with success. The Russian oSiev in port, issued Friday night ma'i-; of claim that the Germans in Xor.h : tD land are being pushed back to c' East Prussian border, and that it Carpathians between the Lupkoi -.- li Uzsok passes the Russians have ,-. tured still another strongly for. ? ridge, overcoming in doing so a!r 01 insurmountable difficulties, such : the scaling of steep ice-covered i 4' and penetrating cleverly-ar:: barbed-wire and timber obstruct:; P The Russians also have taken offensive against the German fo:: in the region of Koziouwka, nea: Nzsok pass, which long has i- t! launching attacks against the e! sian position. In that district a :; . T number of prisoners is reported a have been captured. Jl Against these reports of R:-; ; success the Austrians make the u: 1 that they have repulsed all the .. sian attacks in the Beskid ra;:; mountains, farther east. It is declared that the Turk; now been entirely cleared o:. a Transcaucasia and that the K..-.- " hold the Turkish Black sea as ;': . Arkhave. 11 On the western front the bat le;; 4 of a scattered nature. Beyond i-lery i-lery engagements the on'.y :. that has taken place is In the :: , of Le Pretre, west of Pont-aV:. "5 son, where the French are try::; reach the roads leading from S: !. hiel to Metz, and to the south o: : j ronne, where the French are a':: T the offensive. |