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Show RUSSIANS PUSH GERMANS BACK 01 EASTFRDNT Petrograd Official Report Regards Recent Successes in Russian Poland as Important. BAYONET USED BY THE MUSCOVITES Berlin Claims News Is Being Suppressed and Gives a List of the Generals Captured. PETROGRAD, Feb. 26, via London, Feb. 27, 1:02 a. m. The following Russian Rus-sian official statement was given out tq-night: tq-night: According to supplementary information in-formation our successes in the Przasnysz region (northern Russian Poland) during February 24, 25 and the night of February' 26, -were extremely ex-tremely important. The Russians, courageously shattering the resistance resist-ance of the Germans with rifle tire and bayonets, progressed vigorously. vigorous-ly. The enemy is retiring along the whole front, abandoning prisoners, cannon, machine guns and commissariat. commis-sariat. Our success was supported by the sclf-sacri'ficing work of our armored motor cars which poured their machine ma-chine gun fire intio the Germans at constantly decreasing distances, in some yistances only a few score yards. The enemy's losses were very great. Up to the present it has been ascertained as-certained that during February 24 and 25 we captured thirty officers, 2600 men, seven cannon, eleven machine ma-chine guns, huge quantity of equipment equip-ment and commissariat supplies. |