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Show RUSSIANS SAIN ' I A LARGE VICTORY I Petrograd Dec. 30. Tho follow ing official statement was Issued from general headquarters today: "Along the whole front of the armies arm-ies operating on the left bank of the Vistula thero has been a lull oxcopt In tho region of Bollmow, Inowlodz and south of Malagoszc, whoro flcrco fighting persists, "Taking tho offcuslvo from Boll-mow, Boll-mow, tho Gcrmnns, under n vory In-tenso In-tenso Are from our guns, mado nn assault on Bourgndo, Ilorjlmow and our trenches near Goumlno (Gom-bin?) (Gom-bin?) but our troops by nn lmpctous counter nttnek slaughtered with their bayonets nil of tho onemy with tho oxcoptlon of a fow, who wcro mado prisoners. , "In this engagement wo captured Gorman mnchlno guns nnd Inflicted enormous losses on tho enemy who brought into action successively In this region regiments from divers army ar-my corps. , "Near inowlodz our troops took possession pos-session of Gorman trenchos south of Possado, which they entered after determined fighting." Tho Russlnn vlow of tho military situation In Poland, In tbo light of recent dovo'opmonts Is thnt a dot inlto chock has been administered to tho Gormans. Tho evacuation by tho Germans of tho vlllago of Mlstrzcwlcc, llvo miles north of Sochaczow, related officially official-ly by tho war olTIco, Is regarded by military critics, horo as "ring down tho curtain on tho third German ad-vanco ad-vanco toward Warsaw." At a tremendous loss to thcmsolvcs tho Germans' had succeeded In establishing es-tablishing n foothold In Mlstrzowlco on tho cast bank of tho Bzura river, buttholr persistent slcdgo hammer nttneks during tho Inst thrco wooks failed to penetrato tho Russian lino boforo Warsaw. When It becamo ov ldont that tho Austrian advnnco from tho Carpathian mountains had fail ed, tho Germans evacuated tho vll- 9M lago during Intervals between Rus- jH slan attacks. jH Heavy artillery Is being brought up H by tho Gormans along tholr center H between Sklornlovlce and tho PI I lea jKH river. Thls is regarded horo ns puro jH ly a defenslvo move, doslgncd to !H prevent tho breaking of tho Gorman H lino by tho Russlnn Infantry forces, jH which nro operating thero undor tho jH cover of nrtlllory. H In Gallcla, tho Russians havo tak- jUm en the Important town of Corltcc, fit 11 teen miles south of Tuchow, whoro H tho Russians recently halted tho west 1H Gnllclnn army of tho Austrlans pro- ml venting It from Joining with that of 9 General Douhm.ICnnollI, which was H advancing from Sanck and Ltoko. HI Gorllco Is tho Junction point or sov- oral railroads running cast, west nud jH south through tho Carpartlnn ris- jH Tho pursuit ot tho rotreatlng Aus- H trlans In tho Sanck Llsko district H has boon carried as far as Ysllclc on H tho oxtremo left flank ot tho Austrl- H ans, which has been capturod. Ysllck H commands tho most Important hly'.i- MH way Into Hungary. H Hungarian prlsonors arriving at H pinv stato that tholr commandors, In H nddresslng tho troops previous tn 'ho H ndvnnco snld that tho result of tbu B campaign would bo tho rooccupatlon VMj of Lcmbcrg by tho Austrlans nud tbo H capture of Warsaw by tho Germans H nnd thnt subsequent operations us dl- jH rented by tho German start would do- H cldo tho war. H |