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Show BAVAM AW Abiiuy int duu London, Aug. 1G, 10:3G p. m The left wing of the Baurian army, under un-der Prince Leopold, has fought Its way across the Bug river, near Droh-iozyn, Droh-iozyn, which lies to tho east of So-kofow So-kofow and is some fifty miles northwest north-west of Brest-Litovsk, according to tho official Berlin report. This move forms a slight wedge In the Russian front, which had been virtually straight slnco the Warsaw salient was abandoned. Field Marshal von Mackonsen also is reported to ho pushing back the Russians along tho Bug, where tho Gormnns aro advancing along the eastorn bank of that river. Farther west Field Marshal von Ilindenburg Is credited with a successful attack on tho-advneed defenses of Kovno, ns well as a successful attempt to break tho Russian lines between the Narew and the Bug aftor tho Norzew river had been crossed by tho Gor-mans. Gor-mans. Critical Movements. These formed the most critical military mili-tary movements of the day, but they attract less attention here than the diplomatic negotiations In the Balkans, Bal-kans, where tho crisis has not yet been reached. The most significant phase of today's news concerning tho near eastern situation was contained In a brief dispatch from Athens, stating stat-ing that former Promler Venizeloa had won a decisive victory over tho government In the organization of the Greek chamber of deputies. Tho withdrawal of the Bulgarian delegates from Constantinople caused much speculation here, the consensus of opinioiu being that Turkey Is so confident of her present position that she does not feel under any compul- nlnn tr malm pnn nncci nn a tn Tii1fn rla's desires. Turk3 Repulsed. The usual grenade and mine fighting fight-ing is reported on the western line and there has been some activity along minor fronts in the Caucasus, where tho Russians claim that they have successfully repulsed Turkish attacks. At Livingstone, on the Rho-desian Rho-desian border In South Africa, a British Brit-ish force, which had been besieged by a German detachment, Is reported to have finally driven off the besiegers A German submarine has shelled three towns on the Cumberland coast of England Several fires were started start-ed by shells from the under-water boat and the railroad was damaged, but there were no casualties, it is said, as a result of the attack. Except in their financial columns. the newspapers pay little attention to the decline in sterling exchange The government has given no hint of any nip-i t may be considering to relieve "tion, which Ihe leading finan- 'horities here regard as de- serious. |