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Show RUSSIAN INVASION OF EASTGERMANY Czar's Soldiers Have Started 6n Their Second Campaign Against Prussia. - I'f-troprad, Jan. 29, via London, 4:45 p m The advance of tho Russian Tenth array into East Prussia follows virtually the lines of the first march' of General Rennenkanipf, except that r the point selected for the invasion is I further to the northward. This was done to avoid a repetition of the Russian Rus-sian defeat in the Mazurian lake district. dis-trict. The present Russian invasion l Is urderstood to be more fully pre pared and In greater force than va6 the first one, and as before, the aim of the army 1s the German fortress B of Koenigsberg i From information available it ap- f pears that the Germans who for man weeks oast had maintained nnl ;. small force n this reglpn, have rushed 1 virtually the entire gnrrson of Koe nigsberg to the front, as well as drawing draw-ing upon the German forces on the Warsaw front In tho endeavor to prevent pre-vent the Russians from flanking the Mazurlan positions. 'i Russian military ex-pen argue th.it (l this Russian offensive movement will force the Germans to abandon the Erura river line or compel them to draw forces from the western frontier ;is was done at the time of the first invasion of East Prussia and which materially affected the Herman ad . vance in the direction of Pans At present there is no noticeable dimunition of the almost daily at-taCBf at-taCBf from the fortified line along the Bznra and Rawka rivers. n The Russian occupation of Pilkal- len. a town between Stalluponen and Ragnit on the Kast Prussian railway. ,r which skirts the Russian border, was accomplished after an artillery bombardment bom-bardment and battle lasting all day s- j of January 14. Many buildings in Pilkallen were destroyed by shell fire. |