Peking, Nov. 21.
The following official telegram, dated Petrograd November 20, has been handed to Reuter's agent by the Russian Legation German efforts have been directed to an endeavour to break through our position between the Vistula and the Warthe. We were successful at several points, During our advance on the 18th north-west of Lodz, we captured German heavy-gun battery, tea maxims, and some prisoners.
Heavy fighting is taking place on the Czenstochovo-Cracow front where our operations are normally developing. On the 17th and 18th we captured 3,000 Austrians. Wo have occupied Wisnicz, Gonlice, Dukla and Ujok in Galicia,
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