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Show RUSSIANS CLAIM SOME SUCCESSES Petrograd, Aug. 5, via London, Aug. 6, 2:25 a. m. An official statement says: In the direction of Riga the enemy, after actions on the river Missa, Tell back iu great haste toward the river Ekau, abandoning in the trenches a large quantity of cartridges and munitions. mu-nitions. In the district east of Ponlewesch tho fighting continued and the Germans Ger-mans succeeded in advancing a little. On tho Narew front the German delivered attacks In the direction of Lomza and on the front of Ostrolenka and Rozan. They took the offensive in considerable force also on the roads toward Ostrov. An extremely desperate battle was in progress yesterday on the sector of the Ojo river. Our troops vigorously vigor-ously counter-n.ttapWwl tha snm.. who crossed the stream at several points. West of Warsaw, south of the Blonie road, wo successfuly repulsed German attacks yesterday. The enemy, en-emy, who suffered enormouB losses, advanced up to our barbed wire defenses, de-fenses, but was stopped by our fire To the right of the Vistula, near Matzlevitze, the situation generally is unchanged. In thelvangorod district our troops, unmolested by the enemy, crossed to the right bank of the Vistula, blowing blow-ing up the bridges behind them. Between tho Vistula and the Bug late Tuesday evening our troops drove back the Germans, inflicting enormous losses on them. At many points these local successes, succes-ses, ending with a short pursuit, enabled en-abled our troopB to occupy, tho samo night, without hindrance, a new and more advantageous front on the left ..ank1.of tho BuS as weH as in the direction of Vladimlr-Wolynsk and Kovel. On the uper Bug, the Zlota-Lipa and Dniester rivers there has been no change In tho situation. On the Black aea our torpedo-boat destroyers exchanged shots with the batteries of Eregll, sank thirty-seven sailing vesselB and destroyed the naval building slip. nr |