Petrograd, Jan. 2.
The first official particulars of the engagements which have been fiercely contested during the last few days south of the river Pripet show that the Russians advanced at sever-ints and resisted all attempts made by the enemy to regain the ground they had lost, thereby obtain: ing important tactical successes.
Determined efforts of the enemy to drive back the Russians on the Es bank of the Styr between the Kor Sarny railway and Chartoriisk were unsuccessful, the Russians capturing and holding Khriask, three miles west of the river Styr, and thus the whole central course of the river.
The Russians repulsed the attacks made by the enemy southeast of Kolki and counter-attacked north of Oh where they advanced and the territory they had oe: cupied.
Further south along the front of the river Strypa the Russians took two lines of enemy trenches.
The Russians forced the enemy to retire to the right bank of the Dniester at Usechko, twenty-four miles southeast of Buchach, and obtained " further substantial success between the Dniester and Romanian frontier, where they seized the enemy's barbed wire entanglements.
The fierceness of the fighting was enhanced by the fact that frontal attacks had to be made against the German and Austrian defences and the great importance of this front owing to the proximity of Rumania and the possibility of a Russian success influencing the position in the Balkans.
The Russians have captured several heights northeastward of Ozernowitz, taking 870 prisoners.
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