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Show RUSSIAN STAFF REPORTS IMPORTANT SUCCESSES ON Mill II FRONTIER Austrian Army Is Routed, Over Seven Thousand Prisoners Captured With Cannon and Horses and Over Twenty Machine Guns Papers Claim Losses of Germans in Poland Are Severe An Army Corps Captured Cap-tured and Another Routed. GERMAN TACTICS AN ABSOLUTE FAILURE Kaiser's Armies Lose Seventeen Thousand Men, Heavy Battery Bat-tery of Artillery, Twenty-eight Machine Guns Near Lodz While Austrians Lose Sixteen Thousand in Same Fight French Bring Down German Aviator Lull in Western Arena Fighting. Petrograd, Nov. 28. A communication given out today by the general staff of the Russian army says: Our troops have won important successes along the Pyoschovitse-Brezesko-Bochnia-Visnitsch front (in Galicia) and from 30 to 60 miles southeast of Cracow). In this locality, lo-cality, on November 26, we routed an Austrian army, taking more than 7,000 prisoners, capturing thirty cannon, ten of which were outfitted with horses, and more than 20 machine i guns." Paris. Nov 28, 2:55 p m. The French war office gave out an official offi-cial communication this afternoon as follows "In Belgium the artillery exchanges were continued during the day of No vember 27 without any particular incident in-cident The heavy German artillery showed fess activity. There was one n-ttack of Infantry, to the south of Ypres. which was repulsed by our troops. "Toward t;e evening our artillery brought down a German biplane, carrying car-rying three aviators. One of the men was killed and the other two wore made prisoners "In the region of Arnis and further lo the south there bos been no change. The day passed very quietly In the region of the Alsne. In Champaigns our heavy artillery inflicted serious losses on the artillery of the enemy. "From the Argonne to the Vosges there Is nothing to report " Berlin War Report Berlin, Nov. 28. via London. 4 SO p. m Tho German war office gave out an announcement this afternoon as follows: Tn the western arena of the war thr situation today Is unchanged. French attacks in the Argonne forests for-ests have been repulsed. In the fewest few-est northwest of Apremont and tn the Yosges we occupied some French trenches after an obstinate resistance resist-ance "Only unimportant engagements are reported from East Prussia At LovrltZ our troops have recommenced their attacks and the fighting continues" con-tinues" "Heavy Russian atrncks in the district dis-trict to the west of Mowo and Radom were repulsed. "Tn Southern Poland there has been no chajige." German Operations Absolute Failures Lemberg, Galicia, via PotronTad and lxmdou. Nov 28, 2 20 p. m In operations lasting three (Lays in the vicinity of Strykow, 35 miles northeast north-east of Ixdz and Tushin. an equal distance to the south of the city, the Ciormans lost upwards of 17.000 men, a heavy battery of artillery and 2S machine guns, according to authori- , I . ,, i ',. ;.- ,, ill Lemberg today. In the same fightlne. the Austrians lost 16,000 men in addition to twenty pjaehine gura. Tho German operations In thus locality lo-cality are declared by Russian mill-i mill-i tary observers In lemberg to have been absolute failure and the chances Jt of their escaping further disaster la regarded here as slight. German Losoes Heavy. Paris, Nov 28. 10 45 a. m. Tho correspondent of the Matin in Petrograd Petro-grad savs he learns from highly competent com-petent sources that thi losses of the Germans in Poland on November 25 .were considerable and that an army 'corps was made prisoner and another corps was routed General Von Hindcuburg. the German Ger-man commander, It is stated, received the following telegram from Emperor William before the battle of Lodz. "Distinguish yourself. The eyes of the world are upon you." |