RUSSIA'S PROGRESS IN NORTH POLAND.
ENEMY'S GREATER ACTIVITY ON THE BZURA.
FIVE THOUSAND PRISONERS TAKEN BY THE RUSSIANS.
WELLINGTON, March 17. The High Commissioner has cabled from London, under date March 17 ac follows:— ' Petrograd reports that on the left bank of the Nietnen advanced parties of the enemy were dislodged from Kopciowc, north of Grodno. The Russian offensive on both banks of the Orziec River, north of Prasnysz. is progressing. German guns and fully six hundred prisoners were taken, and two villages were stormed. The enem.v's bombardment of the fortifications on the Bzura is more active. The German offensive in the IHlitza region has proved fruitless. In the Carpathians, < . the snow and the severe cold, the Russians carried the last of the Austrian poeitions in the Smolink region, and took 2,400 prisoners. In Kastern Galicia, the Russians captured tin Tarnowieee fortifications and took' 2,000 prisoners.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 66, 18 March 1915, Page 5
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