Petrograd, Dec. 28. yesterday; partial German attacks were everywhere repulsed. Thi enemy's losses were specially severe during unsuccessful attacks made in a south-easterly direction.
Between the Pilica and the upper Vistula the enemy has assumed the defensive. We stormed the village of Schitnika, which the Austrians stubbornly defended. The left bank of the Nida is now completely cleared of the enemy.
The action on the -Opatovetz-Duboch front is developing favourably. From the 18th to the 26th we captured 200 officers, 15,000 men and 40 maxims. The enemy's retreat in the region of the Dukla Passes and the roads from Lyske is becoming hurried and disordered. We captured 5,000 men here on the 26th.
The enemy's operation of throwing forces from Czenstochovo to the Carpathians was met by a countermaneeuvre which, by the 27th, resulted in the complete failure of these plans of the enemy.
In the Caucasus, in the direction of Oltinsk, we crossed the Laurzin
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