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Show ' Launch Attack Which H Develops Into Most H Desperate Fight. I CLASHAT LENS I j Germans Make Last I Stand in Fifteen Min- I utes and Retreat. WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. ElihU Root and other members of the Amer-ican Amer-ican mission which visited Russia re-cently re-cently have returned to Washington to close up the affairs of the mission. .commission as a whole and of the in-dividual in-dividual members upon the subjects which they were specially charged to investigate already have been submit-ted submit-ted to Secretary Lansing and have been referred to the state, war and navy departments. It is not the pres-ent pres-ent intention to make any of them public although the substance of some may appear later in development of tho war plans of the government. Mr. Root is deeply interested in the adoption of some of the measures for relief in Russia which were touched up on in the reports. That is particularly true of the need of the Russians for American locomotives and rolling stock to keep the Russian armies in the field properly supplied with food and munitions 'absolutely necessary for the successful defense of wheat fields of Rumania and southern Rus- oo |