BATTLES NOW IN PROGRESS.
GREAT ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN RUSSIANS AND GERMANS. (Received November 18, 10.25 a.m.) PETROGRAD, Nov. 17. Official: The retreating Germans destroyed the railways and bridges wholesale, ' greatly • delaying _ pursuit as they neared their own territory ; thereafter an extensive network of railway facilitated the rapid transfer of German troops against the .Russian left. Tbe movement was covered by strong detachments of cavalry from the western front, and partly reinforced by Austrian cavalry. . The German offensive led to battles now m progress on the Plock-Lenczyca-Uneioff front. The Russians captured ten officers and one thousand men southward of Lysko. Galicia.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13540, 18 November 1914, Page 3
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99BATTLES NOW IN PROGRESS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13540, 18 November 1914, Page 3
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