The Archive · 1914

Russians Marching Upon Thorn

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London, Oct, 9.

The Petrograd correspondent of the "7'ribuna" (Rome) reports that the Russians have driven the Germans from Vloclaveck and that the Russians have arrived within a fow kilometres of the fortress of Thorn.

The German left wing in Poland is reported to be partly enveloped, Vioclaveck, Wioclawek or Viota: laval in in Russian Poland, eighty-seven miles north-west of Warsaw on the left bank of the Vistula and is connected to west, railway with Thorn, which la thirty-five Thorn is a fortress in West Prussia on the right bank of the Vistula. The fortifications are strengthened by several de-tacted forts.—Ed.

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