RUSSIAN OFFICIAL REPORT.
EBB AND FLOW.
Received August 12, 5.5 p.m
LONDON, August 11
Wireless Russian official. — Dense enemy waves attacked our positions in the direction of Brody in the region of the villages of Dub and Zarkov. A battle is progressing.
We beat off an attack southward of the Pruth river, one of our battalions forcing its way into the village of Yukovica and compelling the jen&niy to retire.
We regained the heights lost on Wednesday south of Wamma'ny.
The enemy forced the Roumanians to retire south-west of Mona.
A later report states that the enemy's partial offensive in the direction of Brody was a complete failure, being everywhere repulsed with great losses.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17060, 13 August 1917, Page 5
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