The Archive · 1915

WRECK OF GERMAN SIEGE BATTERIES AT OSSOVEZ

RUSSIANS CLOSING IN ON

Petrograd, March 15.

The official communique issued this evening states On the whole front in the region Preasaysz, from ne Mlawa railway to the Orzec river and on the left bank of the latter, we pro-grossed, fighting all the way. Ger. man counterattacks were every: where repulsed.

Our guns at Ossovez wrecked several enemy siege batteries of heavy calibre which had been installed within range of the fortress.

In the Carpathians, Austrian attacks in the region of Baligrod and a German attack on Hill 998, near Koriuvka, were repulsed, We defeated the enemy in the region northward of Obertyn, in eastern G There hi been an artillery duel at Przemyel.

Petrograd, March 16.

The official communigué issued this evening states:

The Russians have dislodged the Germans from some of their advanced posts on the Niemen, The Ruscian offensive continues successfully on both banks of the Orzec.

A battle is developing in Gali east of the railway between Stanislau and Kolomyax (Kolomea), where the Russian infantry, after advancing through snow up to their waists, captured the enemy's position and took 2,000 prisoner:

Russian forces besieging Przemysl have occupied the heights commanding the inner forts,

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