The Archive · 1915

Two German Columns Ambushed

Petrograd, March 13.

The explosion of much ammunition occurred east of Plosk in a battery which we were bombarding.

In the Caucasus we advanced in the region of the seacoast and drove back the enemy in a southwesterly direction.

On the left of the Niemen, on the Grodno roads, there were partial engagements. North of Simno we th.ew @ small detachment of the enemy into disorder and captured some prisoners and two guna. Two enemy columns, in the regia of Kopciovo, suffered very heavily through coming under the fire of our artillery. We repulsed the from the forests nearest We concentrated in the region of Lipsk.

The enemy's attempts to assume d. They were forced to ral villages and wooded lets. The Germans approached to within 1,500 metres of our trenches near Przaszysz, but were unable to entrench aad were forced to withdraw. We took many rifles and a quantity of ammunition.

In the Carpathians we compelled th" Austrians to retire in the Smolnik region. The enemy attacked at Kosiuvka, but without success.

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