Petrograd, March 9.
The official communique issued to-night states:
There was desperate fighting on Tuesday between the Niemen and the Vistula. A German attack on and Mount Dardanus batteries. which had been attacked on the previous day, opened fire, and were engaged and. hit by 12inca shells. The majority of the ships inside the Straits were struck by shells, but there was no serious damage and no casualties.
On the 7th four French battleships entered the Straits to cover the direct bombardment of the de-the KolnoLomza roads was repulsed.
The Austrians continue their offensive in the Carpathians in the region of Baligrod, in spite of crushing losses, and also in the region of Uszok and Munkacs, where they captured a hill near Koziomoka on the 7th. We retook it yesterday morning.
The Tsar has gone to Helsingfor:
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.