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Show oo IMPORTANT BASE ISJpRED Russians Lose Kielce, Valuable Strategic Point and Railroad Junction Northeast of Cracow. Berlin, Jan. 20, via Ixindon. 12.25 p. m. A dispatch recehed today from Cracow, Gahcia. says that Austro-German Austro-German forces have occupied Kielce, Russian Poland. Kielce is the capital of the Russian province of that name and lies in Southern Poland, about fifty miles north of the border, of the Austrian province of Gallcla. In that region has occurred some of the heaviest fighting of the eastern campaign. Kielce has been a Russian base and is of considerable strategic value because be-cause it Is the most important railroad rail-road junction northeast of Cracow. Its capture, if effected, follows the initiation of the new offensive movement move-ment by the German and Austrian armies all along the eastern battle front. |