GERMAN PENETRATION OF RUSSIA.
MAKING FOR MOSCOW. RUSSIANS CLAIM SLIGHT SUCCESS Petrograd, Feb. 27. Reports from Pskoff state that the Germans have split into two bodies and are advancing in tifro directions. One aims at the capital direct and the other by going through Bologoe aims at cutting Petrograd off from the south. JDetachments of the Red Guards are concentrated at Luga, and the Germans attempting to capture Vitebsk were forced to retire. The Russians have removed their stores from the Orsha region.
Austro-Germans without uniforms are already swarming in the city. The Russians hurriedly evacuated Orsha and Smolinsk. The Germans have captured'Borusov.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11474, 1 March 1918, Page 5
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103GERMAN PENETRATION OF RUSSIA. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11474, 1 March 1918, Page 5
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