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Show RUSSIAN REPORT ADMITS GERMANS HOLD AUGUSTOWO PKTROGRAD, March 12, via London. March 13, 1:50 a. m. The Russian war office tonight made public the following official i-datement: f In the Suwalki region the enemy still holds Simno and Augusta wo, and has assumed the offensive in the Pfeiny region, where lighting is proceeding. On the right bank of the Xarew Iheir artillery fire is- intense. On tho front of Amoulev and Orzhyd, and aiso in the direction of Przasnysz Przas-nysz the enemy 'a offensive has been ! held in check by the Rurfsiu n troops. : On tha left bank of the. Vistula ! there is no change in the situation. On the front of tho Gorlke and Lupkow passes in the Carpathians there has been a series of energetic Russian counter-attacks. To the south of (iorlico, parties of tho enemy ene-my crossed the Henkoulca and attempted at-tempted to fortify themselves ou i t right bank. They were annihilated. annihil-ated. Russian scouts surrounded three Austrian drt Hchment- which advanced at different places, and they all surrendered. Tho greatest success achieved was by means of a Russian flnnl: attack where the principal prin-cipal Austrian operations h;td bee.n ca mod on. Tho UussiiiiiH captured the villages vil-lages of Lupkow and Sniolnik and a I so the jii rrounding heigh ts and seized two howitzers, two field gnnu si nd Koven maxj tns uu tie Id hospitals hos-pitals with their staff. The total number of prisoners captured was 4000, including seventy oIlicerH. In tho region of Kabbe-Kesiawka, the cneruy repeated his furious attack at-tack s fruitlessly, they being repelled re-pelled with enormous "osj-ch. In Past Cialici.-j, at Nie.wiska, on the JlnieKter, Cossiuks nenrlv nnni-hilat'-d thren squadrons of I'nis.'iiiui husars. Twen ty-fi vn h iisi-ars and ten of their officers were mado prinori'TS. |