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r '"' MyyE GERMANS ADMIT DEFEAT IN FRANCE RUSS CLAIM OF VICTORY IN POLAND DENIED Berlin, via Wireless Through Say ville, L. I., to the United Press. Of ficial admission that the Germans had been compelled to evacuate SL Georges, two miles west of Nieuport, in Belgium, was made by the war of fice today. It stated, however, that the reverse was due to a surprise attack and that an attempt is now in progress to re take it Fighting has been resumed in Poland, according to the report which claims that he Russian cavalry has been driven back in the general direction of Pillkallon. Northwest of St. Menchould the French delivered a series of brilliant attacks in effort to retake trenches from which they were dislodged some weeks ago. Repulsed with heavy losses, the Germans taking several hundred prisoners. French attacks in the forest of Brule, west of Apremont, have failed and the Germans now hold the French trenches there. London. The destruction of the British battleship Bulwark was today officially entered as an accident. The inquest into the death of practically its entire crew was completed .and the verdict was ordered entered of accidental death. Constantinople. An imperial' de cree, issued today, deprives Prince Hussien Kamel, named sultan of Egypt by Great Britain-, of all of his Turkish decorations and titles. It is ordered that if he is captured he is to be court-martialed for violation of Turkish sovereignty in aiding to sub ject Egypt to British domination. Petrograd. Renewed successes in Caucasus in the Oltinik region and important movements in Warsaw reported here today. Russians occupy Merdenck, near Sarykamyah, where the Turkish trenches were carried. Russian cav alry divisions now operating in the direction of Khorasan. Cettinje. An official statement is sued today by the Montenegrin war office says that on Monday the Aus trians attacked in force along the whole Herzegovina front, but that they were everywhere repulsed. Three aeroplanes dropped bombs on the Montenegrin camp at Gratovo without serious result. Paris. Artillery fighting on a tre mendous scale features the battle to day at many points along the line This is especially so on the center and the right wing of the French po sitions and in upper Alsace, where the French gunners have managed to silence the heavy German artillery posted in the vicinity of Aspach. Despite the inclemency of the weather and the difficulty of mov ing, the Germans again today began an attempt to retake St. Georges, near Nieuport, where the French lines have been moved forward .nearly two miles. The Germans have uruugm up ueavy axuiiery aiuug uiu roads here and they are subjecting the French positions to a continuous bombardment. Vienna. Emphatic denial that Austrian armies have been com pletely routed featured the official war office statement issued today. Admitted that armies have been forced to withdraw, but this action, the statement says, was due to the throwing of enormous numbers of reinforcements into the main army which has been contesting Southern Galicia in company with the Hun garian army which crossed the Car pathians. o o 3 burglars caught with wagonful of clothing taken from Louis Gins berg, 3227 W. Madison. One man es caped. Henry Alexander and Rudolph Taylor, colored, fought duel with hammers and knife over girL Hos pital. Serious. &