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Show ATTACKS ON FORTS OF OSSOWETZ AND KOVNO ARE BEGUN PETROGRAD, Aug. 7, via Iondon, Aug. 8, 1:4.3 a. m. Attacks upon the fortresses of Kovno and Ossowetz by the German forces have been begun, ac-cordine ac-cordine to an official statement issued tonight at the Russian war office. The works of Kosna, part of the Ossowetz fortress, were stormed Friday under cover of a gas attack, but the Germans were dislodged by counter-attacks, the statement says. T'nofficial reports that Kovno was beinn evacuated by the Russians reached London today, but the Russian official statement indicates that they still are in possession of the city, which is the capital of the governor of Kovno in Lithuania and nearly reaching the Baltic. It is a fortress of first class. Ossowetz, also strongly fortified, is about fifty miles northeast of Warsaw on tho Xarew river, and about the same distance southwest of Kovno. |