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Show TEUTONS CAPTURE ANOTHER CJTI Prince Leopold Takes Siedlce After Continuous Fighting Fight-ing in District of Sokalow. MANY PRISONERS TAKEN Advances Made Between the Narew and the Bug Von Hindenburg Advancing. Eerlln, Aug. 13, via London, 4:35 p. m. Tho Polish city of Siedlce, 65 miles east of Warsaw, has been captured cap-tured by the Germans. Announcement Announce-ment to this effect was mado today at aimy headquarters. The city of Siedlce lies directly in the path of tho Teutonic forces, which pressed eastward from Warsaw after the cap-turo cap-turo of that place. It Is in this section sec-tion that the Austro-German forces are advancing most rapidly. Siedlco is the capital of the province of that name and has some 25,000 inhabitants. inhabi-tants. The statement follows: "Western theatre of war: "In the Argonno several French attacks at-tacks on Martlnswerk, which was taken tak-en by us, wero repulsed. "Eastern theatre of war: "Tho troops of Field Marshal Von Hindi nburg which are before Kovno made progress. In the Dvina section tbu Russians made repeated unsuccessful unsuc-cessful attacks. "Between tho Narew and tho Bug i we made further advances, although the enemy continually brought fresh troops to this front and bis resistance had to be broken from section to section. "The army of Von Scholz took 900 prisonirs yesterday and captured three cciinon and two machine guns. Many Prisoners Captured. "Since August 10 the army of General Gen-eral Von Gallwltz has captured C550 Russians, Including eighteen officers, nine machine guns and one pioneering pioneer-ing depot. "Tne troops of Prince Leopold of Bavaria have reached the district of Sokalow during continuous fighting and having captured the city of Siedlce Sied-lce last night, reached the I.iwiec section " |