RUSSIAN OPERATIONS
A FORTIFIED 'HEIGHT CAPTURED
(Admiralty per Wireless Press.)
(Rec. Feb..l 9. 10.10 a.m.) LONIDON, Feb. 18.
A Russian official message states: Germans clad in white overalls took the offensive south-west of Dvinsk and' penetrated our front line. We immediately flhrew them <mX.
(We surprised and captured a foitified) height south-westward of Okna.
GERMAN REPORTS.
AN INDEFINITE STATEMENT, (Admiralty per Wireless Press.)
LONDON, Feb. 16
A German official messags says:— "There was lively fighting between, the White §ea and the Dniester."
AUSTRIAN COMMUNIQUE.
Australian and N.Z .Cable Asaoc-tatiio; and Reuter.)
LONDON, Feb. 18. A Vienna official message reports that since tie enemy attacked positions west! of Hivestran and northeast of -Buezeu Pass, Fighting is proceeding.
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