Its vigorous tone implied throughout that the Russians—as the Germans approached the Dnieper River line of defence—no longer were content to rely merely on defensive tactics or with counter-attacks of a purely defensive nature, but were hurling unused reserves against tiring German troops.
On the basis of the communique it might be assumed that the Germans were making progress only in the Bessarabian part of the line between the Pruth and Dniester Rivers, The communique revealed that a naval battle was fought in the Gulf of Riga in which German naval units were repulsed and two German destroyers sunk, while in the mouth of the Gulf of Finland, an enemy submarine ran into a mine field and was blown up.
during last night, the communique said, "fighting continued in the Ostrov, Polotsk. Lepel and Novo-grad-Volynsk directions, "No essential changes occurred in the position of our troops at the fronts,
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