Petrograd, Feb. 2.
The enemy opened a violent gunfire yesterday in the region of Ikskul. In the region of Oguer our artillery successfully shelled the enemy's earthworks and his machine gun emplacements. The German attempts to leave their trenches and approach our positions on the island of Gludam, below Dvinsk, and in the region of Shishkovo, westward of Dvinsk, were repulsed by our fire.
Southward of the river Pripet, in the region of Glutya, a party of our scouts, comprising several Czechs, accomplished some successful reconnoitring work, in which the Czech ensign, Syrovoi, highly distinguished himeelf.
In Gi and northern Bukovina the situation is unchanged.
The Caucasian Front: During the pursuit of the Turks in the Tortum.gion our troops have reached the river Chorokh. We had successful encounters with the Turkish vanguards in the Upper Pasi Valley.
'e captured prisoners. We storm-the village of Norkey on the southern shore of Lake Van.
In Persia, in the Karmansbah region. the enemy has been driven back towards Nehovend.
The Turks in their latest official reports try to minimize in every possible way the successes el by our-troops. The admission, however, in their reports of the fact that "the Turks retreated to Erzeroum after eight days of band-to-hand fighting with numerically superior enemy forces" and their expression of confidence that "the Turks will succeed in vanquishing the numerically superior forces and the probably accidental superiority of the Russians," are the best acknowledgments of the successes obtained by us.
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