Petrograd, March 13.
An official communique issued to day states:
The enemy's offensive on the front OrmuloffOrjitz-Przaanysz is being kept well in hand.
We made a series of vigorous counter-attacks between Gorlice and Lupkow Pas. Some Austrians who crossed to the right bank of River Sedkouwka (Sekova) were bayonetted: three companies were surrounded and surrendered. Our flank attack in the region of the principal Austrian offensive met with the fullest success: we captured the villages of Smoloik and Lupkow and the surrounding heights and took two howitzers, two field-guns, seven quick-frets and 4,000 prisoners.
Our Don Cossacks in East Galicia exterminated three squadrons of Prussian Hussars: only 35 survived, who are prisoners, The enemy made fresh desperate attacks in the regions of Rabbe and Koziouwka and, were repulsed with immense losses.
Petrograd, March 13.
The communique issued thi this evening states:
Our artillery at Ossover_continues to operate successfully against the German siege batteries.
There has been a fierce anowstorm in the Carpathians and in Galicia.
March 14.
An official communique otates On the 12th, in the Trans-Chorok region, fighting occurred over a wide front. The Turks were everywhere repulsed. The Russians engaged the Kurds in the valley of Alnabvert and repulsed them south-
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