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Show RUSSIANS HAVE BEGIINADVANCE Petrograd, Jan. 13. The Russians have begun a general advance in East Prussia and another in northwest Poland, Po-land, directed to the East Prussian frontier The extent of the movement, the resumption of which, according to tonight's official report was marked by successes, shows that the general staff intends to attempt the hnaion simultaneously from the east and south. The Russians are also still fighting along the River Xida in southern Poland Po-land In an attempt to break through to resume their attack on Cracow. The renewed activity of the Russians Rus-sians in East Prussia indicates that the freezing oer of the Masurian lakes for which they have been waiting wait-ing l as at last occurred, for otherwise other-wise it would be impossible for troops to advance through the nar- I row defiles defended by the Germans. If is cedent that reinforcements of ons ilenble size have been streaming stream-ing to the Russian front north of the Vistula from interior points, as the repeated German attack south of the lower Visiula in Poland are keeping them fairly busy. These attacks are being made at different points and, I according to the Russian official statements, are easily repulsed There is no recent account of the fighting in southern Poland and Galleia but a Bucharest dispatch says that the Russians Rus-sians have begun an attack on the Austrian fortifications In the mountains moun-tains that divide Bukowina, nou in their possession, and Transylvania London, Jan. 1", 1:15 p. m -Renter's Telegram company has received a dispatch from its correspondent In Petrograd saying that an advance detachment de-tachment of the Turkish army has decupled the Persian city of Tabriz |