EASTERN THEATRE
A RUSSIAN REPORT (Australian & N.Z. Cable Assn & Reuter) (Admiralty per Wireless Press). LONDON. March 3. Received March 4, 5.5 p.m, Russian official: Our gas attack northward of Lake Narotch provoked a pafiic in the enemy’s trenches, and we drove out the Germans, who entered the first llna of trenches south-westward of Brzezany. GERMANS REPORT LIVELY FIGHTING LONDON, March 3. Received March 4, 8.5 p.m. German official: There has been lively fighting westward and southward of Riga, between the Upper Sereth and the Dneister. Five Russian attacks failed to recapture the heights northward of the Vareputna Road. GERMANS CLAIM SUCCESSES (Australian & N.Z. Cable Assn & Reuter) LONDON, March' 3. Received March 4, 11.10 p.m. German communique: The Germans broke in the Russian position west of Lutsk (Volhynla) to a depth of fifteen hundred metres and a width of 2% kilometres.
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Southland Times, Issue 17965, 5 March 1917, Page 5
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140EASTERN THEATRE Southland Times, Issue 17965, 5 March 1917, Page 5
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