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Show GERMANS FAIL TO CRUSHRUSSSANS Great Armies Battle to the Death for Three Days at Bzura River. GOAL IS WARSAW Russians Are Retarding Enemy En-emy and Defeating Attempts At-tempts at Flanking Movements. Petrograd. Dec. 21, via London, 1 : 48 p. m. The Russian forces are still holding di bay the German column which Is seeking to cross the Bzura river at Sochaczew and advance on Warsaw. SO miles away. For throe days this German nnny of about IN'm.-000 IN'm.-000 men has been endeavoring to cross the river and throw back the Russians Rus-sians who are holding the right hank. Sochazew continues to be the German Ger-man objective in the attempt to reai h Warsaw. The Russian forces nn the right bank ol the Bsura are heavily entrenched. Their artillery is so placed that it commands the river to its junction with the Vistula. IS miles north. Southward the Russian line extends o Opoczno, LT miles east of F'iotrkow, which recentl v. os evacuated, evacu-ated, and A'i miles east of Sczerezotv, where the Russians first opposed the German extreme right It is pointed out that the Russians thus have assumed as-sumed posit Inns on their third line of detent,. The evacuation of Ixulz, which lies to the west of this line, was thus In logical sequence to this movement and, according to the general gen-eral opinion here, had no bearing on the attack on Warsaw. The Russians for the present apparently appar-ently are attempting nothing more than to retard the enemy and to defeat de-feat attempts at flanking movements. |