The Archive · 1915

DESPERATE FIGHTING

Jan.

On the left of the Vistula, om the Sukha-Folwark-Mogely front the fighting is assuming a etubborn character. The Germaa forces, although suffering great losses, are persistently attacking at different points of our positions, At some places they manage to oopupy, temporarily, some of the trenches in our first line of defence, but determined—counter-attacks, usually ending in the use of the bayonet, force the enemy to abandon ti '7th, in the region of Mogely, the enemy occupied our first me of trenches but were driven out. We captured several officers and over a hundred men, In Bukovina, on the 6th, we occupied Kimpolung. During the last eight days our forces marched eighty miles, fighting continuously, and have now reached the range of mountains separating Bukovina from Hungary. ong ments we captured over 1,000 Austrians and numerous trophies.

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