Petrograd, Feb. 20.
The official communique issued yesterday states:
Between the Niemen and the Vistula our troops in the Augustovo region are gradually emerging from the ephete of fighting. An action is developing near Ossovez on the Lomza reade.
There was no change on the eft bank of the Vistula.
An Austrian attack near Otsinoff, on the left bank of the Dunajec, failed.
We repulsed a ceries of attacks in the Carpathians at Iassionki and northeast of Stropko and captured with the bayonet a height north of Voliamikloft (Voliamyho). At daybreak on the 17th a battalion of Russian troops stormed a lunette in the region of Zavadok, killing all the German defenders. All German counter-attacks, made in massed columns, were repulsed.
Desperate fighting has continued for two days in the region of Vyschkov. We have captured 2,000 prisoners and six mitrailleuses.—
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.