RAID ON BLACK SEA PORT
BUILDINGS AND SHIPPING DESTROYED
(AUSTBALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION AND BEUTSR.)
LONDON, 28th August. A Russian official report states : Co-operating with the fleet, we raided j a port in the Black Sea. The enemy fired from the hospitals. We destroyed tho official buildings, blew up eleven motor-boats and seven feluccas. IN THE CZERNOVITZ SECTOR LONDON, 28th August. A German official report states : We captured important positions east of Gzernovitz, and took one thousand prisoners and six guns. RUSSIANS RETIRE FROM THEIR TRENCHES I (Received August 29, 10.45 a.m.) [ LONDON, 28th August. i Admiralty, per Wireless Press.—A Russian official message .states : Tho enemy i commenced an offensive From Czernovitz against Novoselitza. Our infantry I near Boyel;, not waiting for the attack, left the trenches and retired eastward. ! The reserves also scattered, and the Austrians occupied the positions.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 51, 29 August 1917, Page 7
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140RAID ON BLACK SEA PORT Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 51, 29 August 1917, Page 7
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