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Show RUSSIAN ARMIES MAKE ESCAPE Successfully Extricate Themselves Them-selves From Warsaw Trap Set by the Germans. ENEMY POUNDS KOVNO Great Preparations Begun Months Ago for Assault on Russ Fortress. Petrograd, Aug. 13, (12 n,6on, via London, 3:35 p. m. The Russian armies, having successfully extricated extrica-ted themselves from the Warsaw sack in which the Germans tried to enclose en-close them, are now stubbornly opposing op-posing the German Advance toward Blalystok on a line 70 miles to the east of Warsaw and on both sides of tho railroad between the Polish capital capi-tal and Blalystok. The Baltic-German campaign appears ap-pears to be at a standstill with the Russians astride the highway between be-tween Vilkomlr and Ponlcwcsch, tnreatenlng the communications between be-tween these invading armies. The Germans are ' approaching slightly nearer to Kovno. They are pounding that position with their heavy guns, to which Russian artillery artil-lery Is replying effectively. Peasants Peas-ants who escaped from the German labor gangs describe the deliberate preparations -for the assault on Kovno Kov-no which were begun three months ago. The Germans imported an enormous en-ormous mass of structural materials, built paved roads from the westward and dug foundations fifteen feet deep for mortars, taking endless pains in preparing the cement platforms. When the refugees escaped, no 42 centimeter guns had arrived, but those of smaller calibre, each requiring requir-ing three large tractors, were being hauled into position. |