RUSSIAN COMMUNIQUE.
LONDON, April 6
A wireless Russian official states: —After heavy artillery fire, including chemical shells, the Germans occupied a portion of bur trenches eastward af Plaktanen, south of Riga, but were driven out again.
Ten Russian aeroplanes bombed the railway buildings at Kuty, southwest of Svinkui.
In the .fighting on the left of the Stokhod on the 3rd and 4th, which ended in our crossing the river, the troops defending the bridge-head lost severely. Only a few score of the men of two regiments reached the right bank. Both commanders were killed. The third regiment lost half its effectives. Some of the wounded of the two other regiments survived.
During the capture of the bridgehead at Toboly and the fighting on the Stockhod we captured 130 officers, 9500 men, 15 guns, 150 ma-chine-guns and mine-throwers.
Our airmen blew up extensive munition depots in the Vardar Valley.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 16949, 9 April 1917, Page 7
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