Petrograd, Dec. 28.
The enemy attempted to occupy our trenches four miles northeastward of Buchach, but was repulsed.
In the region of Raranche, northeastward of Chemovzy, our scouts, by @ sudden attack, ocoupied an enemy work and captured twenty prisoners. The enemy made desperate attempts to recapture it without success.
In the region of Zminy, southenstward of the station of Chartoriisk, we drove back a German vanguard and successfully engaged the troops which hastened to ite assistance, In the region of Pugachevka, north. ward of the village of Muravitsy, on the river Ikva, we surrounded and captured a party of enemy scouts. To the north of Buchach one of our units suddenly rushed the of Petlikovitze, where an Austrian outpost was quartered. During the hand to hand engagement that ensued some of the Austrians were bayoneted and the remainder fled.
The Caucasian Front: In the Black Sea, southwestward of Hopa our steam launch, in spite of heavy fire from the shore at Atma, captured a Turkish sailing vessel laden with corn and seven armed Turks, In the Valley of the river Vivrichai, southeastward of Lake Tortumgol, our fire dispersed the Turks, who were erecting—fortifications. Our troops pressed back scooay cavalry deteciment" westward of Melimagert, a large
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