Petrograd, Nov. 18.
The German Fleet bombarded Libau on Tuesday and caused some outbreaks of fire, A despatch from headquarters states that between the Vistula and the Warthe our vanguards, opposing the Germans, who took the offend sive, are retiring in the region of Lenczyca and Orloff, sending our vanguards towards Plauntek.
The Russian forces in Eastern Prussia continue to advance fighting towards the front from Gumbinnen to Angerburg, which the enemy is defending. troops on the Mazurian Lakes front have reached the enemy's wire entanglements, which they are forcing.
We attacked large forces of the enemy on the Crzenstochova-Cracow front and routed some detachments operating near Lodovita. We are occupying the passes of the Carpathians in Galicia. London, Nov. 19.
An official Austrian despatch says that the Austrian and German armies in Russian Poland have forced the Russian main forces to give battle.
The Russians have bombarded Trebizond, damaging the fort.
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