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Show I RUSSIANS CAPTURE JABLONITZA PASS IMPORTANT SUCCESS SCORED BY CZAR'S FORCES IN DRIVE TOWARD HUNGARIAN PLAINS. Italians are Pressing Their Advance on the Carso Plateau and Report Capture of Several Sections of Austrian Trenches. London. The Russians nave cap-tureed cap-tureed Jablonitza, one of the principal princi-pal gateways from j:ilicia through the Carpathians to the Hungarian plains, and Petrograd reports that their offensive of-fensive in this direction is continuing. This is the first news of an advance by the Russian southern army since the conquest of the Austrian crown 'and of Bukowina was completed. Farther to the north the Russians are continuing their driving operations against the Austrians with apparently uiiinterupted cuccess. Their troops are pouring across the Zlota Lipa at several points in spite of desperate resistance re-sistance on the part of the Teutonic forces. Fierce fighting is being waged along the entire line south of Brody, and General Brussilloff apparently is making a supreme effort to cut off the army of General von Bothmer and force its surrender. As far as the other theatres of war are concerned, main interest centers dn the Italian operations, no important action being reported on either the British or French Fronts. The Italians are vigorously pressing their advance on the -Carso plateau, and Rome reports re-ports the capture of several sections of the Austrian trendies and the taking tak-ing of more than 1,600 prisoners. |