Petrograd, March $2.
An official communique reports:
Fighting has been general along the whole front.
The Russian force have captured two woods and " village in the Jseobstadt sector and s whole line of trenches south of Dvinak.
There ie 4 particularly desperate engagement im. progress north of Postavy, half-way between Dvinsk and Vilna, Enemy counter-attacks with the object of recapturing trenches they had lost failed.
The Russians are gaining the upper hand in a battle on the southwestern shore of Lake Maroos, northeast of Vilna, where they have foreed three lines of entanglements and trenches, after a series of fierce attacks and, notwithstanding the German use of gases, capturing over 1,000 prisoners, 12 machineguns and other material. The Russians, using gas, effectively checked attempted counter-attacks.
A fight preceded the Russian cupation of Ispahan, whos inhabitants, exhausted by the looting of the Turks and Germans, wel-comet the Russians with enthus-item. The Governor-Genersl and other authorities had previously joined the Russians, with whom they re-entered the city.
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