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Show RUSSIANS DEFEAT AUSTRIANSOLDIERS REPORTED TO HAVE MET WITH AN IRREPARABLE DEFEAT AT ZAMOSE, IN RUSSIAN POLAND. German Troops Join With Troops Opposing Op-posing Russian Advance in East Prussia, But Were Driven Back With Heavy Losses. ISt. Petersburg. The Russian advance ad-vance in all the theaters of operations continues successfully. Encounters have been reported in several places, but the heaviest fighting appears to have occurred in the southern part of east Prussia and In eastern Ga-licia. In east Prussia the German troops, after their defeat at Gmmbinnen, joined with the troops opposing the Russian army that was advancing from the south on the line extending fromi the Neidenberg through Ortels-burg Ortels-burg to Johannesburg, and were driven driv-en back with heavy losses. The Germans Ger-mans attempted to defend the line from Soldan through Allenstein to Bischofsburg, but after fierce fighting, fight-ing, which lasted through Wednesday, Wednes-day, Thursday and Friday, they were forced to abandon their position, the Russians occupying the garrison town of Allenstein. The report comes from Sofia, Bulgaria, Bul-garia, that the Austrians have suffered suffer-ed an irreparable defeat at Zamose, in Russian Poland, fifty miles southeast south-east of J ublin. |