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Show GERMANS SEIZE RUSSIA! TOWNS AFTER SHORT SKIRMISH WITH RUSSIAN TROOPS, INVADERS CAPTURE THREE TOWNS. First Move in War Between Two Great Powers Made by German Soldiers, Who Now Have Foothold Foot-hold in Russian Poland. Berlin. The German border troops from Lublintz, Silesia, on Monday, after a short skirmish with Russians, took possession of Czenstechowa, Russian Poland. Bendzin and Kalisz, Russian Poland, Po-land, also have been occupied by the Germans. Czenstochowa ds a city of some 50,000 inhabitants situated on the river Waethe, near the Silesian frontier. fron-tier. It is noted chiefly for its manufactures man-ufactures of woolen and cotton cloths and paper. A picture of the virgin in a noted convent there attracts at-tracts thousands of pilgrims annually. annu-ally. Bendzin is a coal .and zinc mining center. It has a population of slightly slight-ly over 20,000, about half of whom are Jews. Kalisz is the capital of the province prov-ince of the same name. It is the most westerly city in Russian Poland. Its population of 20,000 is engaged in various manufactures. |