The Archive · 1916

Petrograd, March 2%

The official communique ued to-day reporte We repulsed strong attacks the Jacobstadt sector.

Our offensive north-west of Lake Vargunek is developing.

In the Dvinsk region our troops are advancing, after, repulsing several counter-attacks and desperate fighting, partly with the bayonet.

On the Vidzy and Klipa sectors our men, despite a violent fire, foreed all the enemy defences. His counter-attacks were repulsed.

We ousted the enemy from the woods in the region of Blisnik, south of Lake Naroteb, which were strongly organized and thickly enveloped in barbed wire We captured 1,273 Germans, 18 maxims, 39 mortars and much material in the fighting in the region of

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