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Show SUMMARY OF WAR. NEWS Russians repulsed assaults by Germans from Sochaczew to the Vistula, Petrograd said. Berlin announced that in a tierce battle the Germans succeded in cross- lng both branches of the Bzura. The FYench official reports, while claiming progress at sev- eral points, admitted that counter attacks by the Germans had checked the allies In other places, especially in the Argonne. . , It was conceded by the Ger- mans that 4h allies had regain- ed lost , ground at Rlchebourg, northwest of La Bassee, but it was said that in other fighting In that region the Germans took 800 prisoners and exterminated the Ninth Battalion of French Chasseurs.' " The French Chamber of Depu- ties met in -Paris for the first tlnie since early in August, and Premier Vlvlani declared that France and her allies would not sheathe arms until France's lost provinces had been regained. Belgium avenged and Prussian militarism crushed. |