The Archive · 1916

The Russian Offensive

Petrograd, Feb. 5.

Isolated engagements have been reported during the last two days at various points of the Russian front line along the Dvina, especially in the district of Riga, where out-Post engagements have occurred and @ successful sortie was made by a Russian armoured motor car.

According to a telegram to the "Bourse Gazette" there are no large reserves in rear of the German lines in Courland, only small cavalry detachments at Goldingen, Bausk and Tukkum. Important strategical points are strongly fortified.

The appearance of Russian troops in the neighbourhood of the village of Galuzia, ten miles west of Rafalovka, shows that the Russians have advanced north of Czartorisk.

The offensive everywhere is on lo of the Russians except on the line of the Dniester where the enemy twice attacked unsuccessfully the Russian positions in the region of Usechko under cover of the fire of their heavy artillery.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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