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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

THE news from Russiais mulch the most important of the week.. The German official message published on Thursday morning stated that Kovno,. with all its forts, had fallen, and that an enormous quantity of war material, including "far more than four hundred guns," had been cap- tured. The Russian message said that the Germans, after suffering enormous losses, bad established themselves in the fortifications to the left of the Niemen, west of the river Jessia. This would mean that the Germans had taken less than half of the outer forts, and had not reached Kovno itself. We believe, however, that the fall of Kovno is only a matter of a short time, if it has not already fallen. We have written on the whole subject in our first leading article.

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