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Show CRUCIAL flfilll IS NOW ON IN EAST i RUSSIANS PRESSING THE FIGHT IN ATTEMPT TO GAIN ROADS TO HUNGARY. Germans Have Brought Up Many Additional Ad-ditional Troops In North Poland and Are Making a Stubborn Resistance. The Russian armies, doubtless Inspired In-spired by tho victory on Przomysl, aro pressing tho fighting both In northern Polnnd and tho Carpathians, whore Germans and AustrlunB nro giving desporato battlo to stay tho attempted at-tempted advance of the Muscovites. Probably tho struggle In the Carpathians Car-pathians will prove to bo tho one that presently will attract tho most attention, atten-tion, for ovou Vienna roporta that Russian forces nro now attacking with great violence ulong tho front extending for some miles rrom Uzsok pass, and that fierco fighting ls taking placo ror tho possession or the height! which dominate tho Important outlets 'from tho north Into Hungary. Regarding the operations In that territory, tho Russians claim to bo advancing ad-vancing nnd to have seized severa. fortified heights on the front between the roads leading to Bartfeld and Uzsok. As Przomysl Is directly tc tho north or JzBok, it Is to be expect cd that reinforcements will ho sent a speedily us possible rrom tho arm. which Invested the rortress to aid those who have been striving roi months to capture the Curpathlat passes. Tho Germans have brought ur many additional troops in the nortt or Poland, whero along tho Narev and Orzyc rivers they havo beer pouring a deadly flro Into tho Rub stun ranks and have time after time taken strong offensive operations. Notwithstanding this, however, th Russians claim to bo making "slow but sure, progress, capturing trenchei apd heights." The Austrlans are again dovotlng tholr efforts to clearing Bukowlna ol tho Russians, and tho Germans have forced the Russian dctuchmenti which recently occupied Memol, East Prussia, to retire British air raiders according to an offlclul statemen. from London, havo succeeded In dam aging two submarines under construe tlon by tho Gormans nt Hoboken, nea Antwerp, and to have done damage also to the plant, which rormerly wui the property or a British company. |