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Show TURK TROOPS MAKE VIOLENT ATTACK ON THE RUSSIANS CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 2. via London. Lon-don. 1 :4P p. rn. Turkish troops fighting in Galicia launched a violent attack against tlie Russian positions on October 30 and stormed three successive lines of fortified defenses, according to an official offi-cial report issued today by tlie Turkish war department. The text reads: Galician front: On October 30 our tiooos violently attacked and penetrated pene-trated three successive lines of the enemy's fortified defenses and captured cap-tured hill 407, north of Molchev, and also Ceparik hill, further eastward. We took 120 prisoners, of whom four were officers, and captured four machine ma-chine guns and two trench mortars. Repeated enemy attacks with superior su-perior forces on" the following day in an attempt to recapture the heights mentioned in the foregoing failed. |