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Show CZAR'S FORGES ARE PRESSINGJRMRD MUSSIANS REPORTED ON OFFENSIVE OFFEN-SIVE ALONG WHOLE FRONT FROM BALTIC TO ROUMANIA. Germans In North Poland Being Pushed Back to the East Prussian Borders Austrlans Claim Victory Vic-tory Over Russians. The Russians now nro on tho offem bIvo along tho wholo of their front, from tho Baltic sea to tho Roumanian border and in tho Caucasus nnd, nc cording to a Stockholm dispatch, thoy havo concentrated an enormous numt bor of soldiers on tho coast of Fin land to provent any nttompt by tho Germans to land there. All tho RuBstan advances, according to Petrograd advices, aro proceeding with success. Tho Russian official ro. port, issued Friday night, makes tho claim that tho Germans In North Poi land aro bolng pushed bnck to tho East Prussian border, nnd that In tho Carpathians botweon tho Lupkow and Uzsok passes tho Russians havo captured cap-tured Btill another strongly fortified rldgo, overcoming in doing so almost Insurmountable difficulties, such as, tho scaling of steep ico-covored hills nnd penetrating cleverly-arranged barbed-wlro and tlmbor obstructions. Tho Russians nlso havo taken thq offcnslvo against tho German forces in the region of Kozlouwka, near thd Nzsok pass, which long has been launching attacks against tho Russian Rus-sian position! In that district a largo number of prls6ncrs is reported to havo bcon captured. Against theso reports of Russian success tho Austrlans mako tho claim that they havo repulsed all tho Rus-elan Rus-elan attacks in tho Beskid rnngo of mountains, farther east. It is declared that tho Turks havq now been entirely cleared out of Transcaucasia and that tho Russians hold tho Turkish Black sea as far as, Arkhave. On tho western front tho battles arq of a scattered nature. Beyond artillery artil-lery engagements tho only fighting that has taken placo is In tho foros of Lo Pretro, west of Pont-a-Mouw son, whoro tho French nro trying ta reach tho roadB leading from St. Ml hiel to Metz, and to tho south of Pet ronno, whero tho French aro also on tho offensive. |
