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Show j raHTIilNSIX FEETJOF SNOW Peitrograd, Dec. 21. The following official communication was issued to-nlgfit to-nlgfit trom the headquarters of the jirrav at Caucasus "In the direction of Van. on December De-cember 20. engagements occurred whiob resulted in the defeat of the Turk among whom there were a iroal Dumber of oanded Daring the pursuit of the enemy we &Sl Rna piece of mountain artillery, with 500 other pieces of equipment. "In the direction of Sar-kamysh rransCusplan district) there have been several engagements of no 1111-liortance." 1111-liortance." London Dor. 21, 10 40 p. m In Poland Po-land and' Galicia battles are being lought between the Russians and the ;,rman and Austrian alius amid deep snow and in bitter cold. In Rel-tium Rel-tium and nortthern France the Germans Ger-mans and the French P.ritish and l'cleian allies are contesting the mud lieids foot by foot. No news of any derisive gain came trom either arena today The Russian Rus-sian and German claims continue 'o be directly contra Jictory The Germans in Roland are again making a fierce attack toward the uapltal and the Rusians are making a stand against them on the east bank of the Rzur river, thirty miles west of WafBSW. Grand nuke Nicholas firmy here holds a naiural s;rategif line ftfty miles long, running, rough-Iv, rough-Iv, north and south along the east banks of the Rzura and Rawka rivers. Russian Claims. The Retrograd reports claim that the German force in north Roland has treated ac ross the boundary in ;o Fast Prussia i'i a northwesterlj direc '.ion I asserts also that the Austrian .:Jvance through Carpathian i. .-, to the north has been checked and the attempts of the I'rzemysl rarrison to hr.'uk through the lines Fepulsed. According to this report (.(. Uistrians bave been driven Into The fortifications with heavy slaughter. slaugh-ter. The Austrian communication. on the other hand, claims successe in tc Carpathians, bit admits that the ' Russians again occupy Galicia and South Roland in force. Apparently therefore, the Cracow and Rrzemysl Investments are proceeding and have nut been broken. Serious fighting between the Rua sians and Turks around Krzeruni. Turkish rmonla, has been stopped by snow six feet deep and the Intense In-tense cold, from which the Arabs are Buffering Mtterly |
