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Show CZAR'S FORCES ARE PRESSING FORWARD RUSSIANS REPORTED ON OFFEN-6IVE OFFEN-6IVE ALONG WHOLE FRONT FROM BALTIC TO ROUMANIA. Germans In North Poland Being Pushed Back to the East Prussian Borders Austrians Claim Victory Vic-tory Over Russians. The Russians now are on the offen-lve offen-lve along the whole of their front, from the Huhic sea to the Roumanian -border and in the Caucasus and, according ac-cording to a Stockholm dispaich, they have concentrated an enormous number num-ber of soldiers on the coast of Finland Fin-land to prevent any attempt by tbe Germans to land there. All I lie Russian advances, according to Petrograd advices, are proceeding -with success. The Russian official report, re-port, Issued Friday night, makes the Waim that the Germans In North Poland Po-land are being pushed back to the Kast Prussian border, and that in the .Carpathians between the Lupkow and 'lJzsok passes the Russians have captured cap-tured still another strongly fortified ridge, overcoming In doing so almost Insurmountable difficulties, such as the scaling of steep ice-covered hills and penetrating cleverly-arranged -barbed-wire and timber obstructions. The Russians also have taken the offensive against the German forces dn the region of Koziouwka, near the Nzsok pass, which long has been launching attacks against the Russian Rus-sian position. In that district a large number of prisoners is reported to have been captured. Against these reports of Russian success the Austrians make the claim hat they have repulsed all the Russian Rus-sian attacks in the Beskid range of mountains, farther east. It is declared that the Turks have now been entirely cleared out of Transcaucasia and that the Russians liold the Turkish Black sea as far as Arkhave. On the western front the battles are of a scattered nature. Beyond artillery artil-lery engagements the only fighting that has taken place is in the forest of Le Pretre, west of Pont-a-Mous-eon, where the French are trying to reach the roads leading from St. Mi-hlel Mi-hlel to Metz, and to the south of Pe-ronne, Pe-ronne, where the French are also on the offensive. |