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Show RUSS BACKBONE BROKEN, IS REPORT OF AGENCY Berlin, Aug. 29, via wireless to Sayville, N, Y. The Overseas News agency says: "Reports from the eastern front all say that tho Russians are still fighting fight-ing bravely and tonacloUBly. in ccr- tain localities, but that tho backbone of the Russian army is completely broken. It will be impossible for the Russian army to reorganize and recuperate re-cuperate for a long time. In Swampy Forests. "The number of prisoners and the amount of supplies captured at Brest-Lltovsk Brest-Lltovsk has not yet been ascertained. The Russians are retreating into the swampy forests southeast of Brest-Lltovsk Brest-Lltovsk and are being pursued by our cavalry' from Kovel. "There is general rejoicing ovor the fall of Brest-Litovsk, which is increased increas-ed by the fact that it occurred so near the anniversary of the first great defeat by Von Hindenburg of the Russians Rus-sians in the battle of Tannenberg, since which time Von Hindenburg has been the most popular man in Germany. Ger-many. The newspapers" point out that nine Russian fortresses, including includ-ing three of the most powerful Kov-no, Kov-no, Novogeorglevsk and Brest-Lltovsk were captured within three weeks Contrast Is Drawn. "They contrast this with the resistance resist-ance of the Germans to the Japanese at Tsingtau and of the Austrlans to tho Russians at Przemysl, in both of which cases the Teutonic forces held out until their ammunition and food were gone. "The German authorities at -Warsaw have granted the request of the citizens' committee that all the schools' Including the universities, be permitted to reopen for their regular term. Pupils who have fled to other countries will be permitted to return and the citizens of Warsaw have organized or-ganized a police force from their own numbers to serve under the direction of the German military authorities, who have equipped the force with revolvers re-volvers " oo |