BIG GERMAN CAPTURES
(Rec. March 4, 7.15 p.m.) LONDON, March 3. • Wireless German official. — After ; hard fight we ■•captured Pleskau, als b Polozk, and Bolishofl*. ; We functioned with the Polish di visions at Bobtiiisks. Austro j Germans have entered Shmc ink a. We took prisoner Tioretofov 6800 officers and 15,000 men, 2400 gum 500 machine guns, 1000 vehicles, in eluding 100 motor vehicles, 11 arm : bured motor cars, 800 locomotive* 8000. railway trucks, and great quan tities of artillery and munitions Moreover avc took prisoner at Rcva 513 men, 220 guns, 22 aeroplanes. A later message says that owing t( the signature to the peace treaty military movements in the great Rus sian advance have ceased. ■ A further armistice is granted tc Soumania to continue the peace nego tiations. Germans at Pskoff reported to Ger many that all the men are under forts two.
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Grey River Argus, 5 March 1918, Page 3
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