EAST FRONT

Grey River Argus, 3 February 1917, Page 5

EAST FRONT

j • — — ♦• TROOPS BEING WITHDRAWN TO GO TO WEST FRONT C'Reuter's Telegrams") (Rec. February 2 8; 1 «; p.m) PETROGRAD. February 2. Except in the Riga sector where three divisions of German reinforcements have arrived, the enemy is transferring considerable troops 'ror-i the Russian fronts to the Western Front. ENEMY ATTACKS REPULSED RUSSIANS TAkF PRISONERS (Admiralty, per Wireless Press) . LONDON". February 1. Russian official; We frustrated three attacks eastward of Jakpbens and made prisoners of over a thousand. j TREMENDOUS BLIZZARD AUSTRIANS FROZEN (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) PETROGRAD. February 1 . A tremendous blizzard has been raging for days at Profesei. Snow- has hidden the defences. I Russian irregulars, 'accustomed to severe * weather, have undertaken numerous, successful raids, penetrating to the enemy's rear. They recently found a number of Au.strians frozen to death comrades immediately surren-