EASTERN FRONT
OPERATIONS ON' THE STOCKHOIX
RUSSIANS DRIVEN BACK,
(Admiralty per Wireless Press.)
(Rec. April 5, 11.45 a.m,) LONDON, April 4.^ \ Russian offiical message says: We threw back the enemy, who temporarily occupied trenches in the regions southward of Illukst and southward o£ Kreyo. The enemy heavily bombarded with chemical shells our positions oiv to river nassacre in the .Stockhod and in the region of St. Chervitche Gilenin station and. discharged 13 • gas waves, pressiog back our troops. ■=t n Mrhnd The Germans crossed the StocUnoa Sir the Stockhod some trenches six miles westward of RafailoWe frustrated a Bulgarian attempt to cross the Oeorgieve branch ot the T>anube.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 5 April 1917, Page 5
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