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Show CAPTURE RUSSIAN RAILWAY. Czar's Troops Pushed Back by Germany's Ger-many's Army. London. By one of those battering offensives, which, although costly in men and munitions, have invariably been successful, Field Marshal von Hindenburg's army has at last set foot on the Rovno-Petrograd railway between be-tween Vilna and Dvinsk. The whole Austro-German forces have been striving striv-ing to gain this railway since the fall of the Polish fortress. The offensive, which began toward the end of last week, was carried on from three directions, upon Dvinsk and the railway on either side of the town, while further south, the invaders invad-ers advanced toward Vilna. The Russians, before superior forces, supplied with the usual mass of artillery, artil-lery, were forced back to the lake district, dis-trict, which the railway penetrates, and are now making a stand there. Simultaneously, the Germans pushed their way eastward towards Slonim and Pinsk, both of which are on roads which join the main railway line, while the Austrians, with whom there are many German units, are fighting hard to reacli Rovno, the southern terminus of the line. With the railway partly in the hands of the Germans, it is probable that the Russians will be compelled to make a further retirement although their offensive of-fensive in Galicia, which continues, might save them by compelling the Germans to send reinforcements to this region. |