Petrograd, March 23.
After the relative calm which has reigned during the winter, activity has recommenced on the Russian front. Our troops, advancing energetically, have already captured a series of villages and enemy's trenches, over 1,000 prisoners, some guns and munitions of war.
The fighting is developing chiefly on the right and extreme left Russian flanks, the centre being comparatively calm.
At present it is impossible to con-lecture whether the present operations will grow into serious hostili ties or are only a demonstration with 8 view to hindering the German generals from throwing forces with impunity from our Front to France. In any case the position warfare on the Russian front seems finished and the summer campaign is <ommencing.
There is great enemy activity at Vilna, where troop trains are ceaselessly arriving from the West and south and ordinary traffic hae been suspended. Vilna is thronged with Austrian and German troops and crowds of prisoners are being made to work early and late in constructing and strengthening the defences, of which several lines surround the town, which is the headquarters of London, March 94.
An interesting description of the fight for the bridgehead at Michael. cze, acrose the Dniester, which wi captured by the Russians a week go, is given in a despatch publish-od in Budapest.
Tt says that the fighting was incessant there for two months. The Austrians had made the bridge-bead " regular fortress by con structing underground tunnels and cemented dugouta.
Almost every day Marshal von Hindenburg inquired how the fighting was progressing, as the bridgehead was regarded as most émportant and the garrison had been ordered to retain it at any price.
The Budapest despatch staten that the Austrians dread combined offensives by the Russians and Ital-inns as they require a million more men to keep their line intact and have only 600,000 in training, including the last levies of men 60 years old.
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