A RUSSIAN GENERAL'S THANKS.
FINE NEW YEAR GIFT.
PETROGRAD, Jan. 14. General Dimitrieff, in an order to the troops wlio participated in the successful offensive on the Riga front, says: "You pierced fortifications that 3iad taken fifteen months to construct, despite the fire of hundreds of machine guns, and cleared a pa,ssage in aweinspiring silence with the bayonet, thus economising thousands of' .shells. I salute you humbly, and thank you for your fine New Year gift. Our areat booty includes thirty guns and fifteen ■thousand rifles."
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 15 January 1917, Page 8
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86A RUSSIAN GENERAL'S THANKS. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 15 January 1917, Page 8
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