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Show Russian Offensive. In the Dvinsk sector, both to the west and southwest of that city, the Russians . have begun an offensive, apparently in anticipation of renewed attavks by the Germ a ns, and t hev are a Iso on the move in the lake district east of the Dvinsk railway and in Volhvnia and Galicia. The result of these various battles has not. been nis'los-rd. if, Indeed, they are concluded. Those a f the southern end of r he line '; are doubtless designed to prevent the German5? and Austrians from sending re- '' inforcements to Serbia. Tn France the battle for the Butte de 1 Tahure. vhrch the Germans recaptured rrom The French, is si ill In progress with- out chancing the posh ions of the two armies. Tnere has been some fighting at , other points in the west. What the attacks at-tacks on this front ha ve r-osr ia shown hv a report issued by FVld MarFhal Sir John French tonight. He said that the published Huts of the German casualties disclose that seven German battalions which took part In the Ixx) fighting presumably a G'trma n counter-attack lost 80 per cent of their strength. |