Petrograd, Jan. 30.
Prisoners recently captured confirm the reports of the sufferings of the Germans in the Pinsk mars bet region.
A rapid thaw released vast quantities of subterranean water which wrecked all the enemy works though they had been bombarded by dozens of batteries of heavy guns. Thousands of munition wag gons, numerous guns and entire depots have been engulfed irrecoverably, while whole detachments of troops in the trenches were cut off and perished miserably, being wnable to escape from the marshy labyrinth.
The authorities in Germany, in order to prevent the news lasking out, isolate soldiers returned from this front, who are invariably suffering from a virulent type of influenza.
The official communique issued to-day states that a German attack south of Lake Habit was promptly suppressed. Mine fighting ocourred in the region of Czernowits.
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