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The High Cominissiorier'.repp^a " London, Feb. 12, 4;4S p.m. r : . Scnjth of lia Boisselle the Germans ex a %h% extremity of tho Allies' trench. The Allies' still hold the trench. - •London.jJFeb. 12, 2.45 p.m. Petrograd reports that the Russian fall ; back' is necessarjr to assure "th'e possibility of re-arranging troops and effecting grea-ter concentration in ; order_Jto . de&l with four new. Prussian army corps. Tl|e object will be best-attained in Russia,n; territory in the shelter of their own. fortresses. , ' • 'lt is presumed to be the eye of great> operations which ought - definitely to decide the struggle in. Eastern. .Prussia. Circumstances ' demand strict necessity for keeping operations .secret. ' 'Following on twenty-two ineffectual attempts, the Germans succeeded in occupying the heights of/Kozitnqka, with 'a latge after - sanguinary attack but they were dislodged after a fierce bayonet fight, leaving .four hundred dead. ' The garrison ,at _ Przeujysl is exhausting itself with vkih: sortiek.; In r the Black -S«a, the Russians sank, a Turkish transport aijcL nine hundred tons' of provisions! ' . . v
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 13 February 1915, Page 5
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