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Show RUSSIANS TAKE POST AND BAYONET THE AUSTRIANS PETROGRAD, Dec. ?,0, via London, 3:16 p. m., British admiralty per Wireless Wire-less Press. Reporting military operations on the Russian western front, the Russian official statement Issued today says; Western front: In the region north of Lake Koldytchevo our scouts attacked at-tacked an enemj field post and captured cap-tured some prisoners. On the Odin canal, south of Novin-ka, Novin-ka, our scouting parties attacked an outpost of German officers. After bayonet fighting, the enemy fled, leaving in our hands a number of prisoners and wounded. Our artillery by successful shooting dispersed three enemy companies moving In the valley to the west of the village of Prisonvtze and west of Zboruv. On tiie river Bystritza a party of our troops attacked a trench of the enemy which had been pushed forward for-ward In the region of Patziookow. Some of the defenders, Austrians, were bayonet ted, and the rest, in-rludlng in-rludlng a wounded officer, were made prisoner. After tills attack enemy replied by unrestrained artillery fire, which lasted several hours. In the same region our artillery successfully bombarded an enemy battery situated south of the village of Rybno. . On the Moldavian frontier, in the region north and south of the valley of the river Oituz. the enemy launched persistent attacks on our positions. By repeated blows he succeeded in occupying oc-cupying several heights and pressed back our troops slightly to the eastward. east-ward. Our forces are consolidating themselves in new positions north of the village of Horsha and east and south of the village of Sosmezo. Caucasian front: The situation has undergone no change. |