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Show RUSSIANS CLAIM CAPTURE OF THE LOST POSITION f'KTROi.RAD, April 0, r:"l p. m. (briWn admiralty per wirel'-ss Pres.) 'ifrnia.'i forefs ypMerd;iv took the of-, ft1 n si vp in tho region nnuth nf Kitra and w'i,'.'rti'dprl in pPUPtraMng the Rus.-iian li:i.-s. says an ofiicial staternptit issued Toda1. by tho Russian war department. T.atr the Russians launched a counter-:atak, counter-:atak, dro'. e out the Teutons and re-I re-I stnrpd tho p-isitioii. The sfatornent adds: BlarU va: Our ?pn p'a tis. under fir1 from the enemy's battery, carried car-ried on t. an aeria 1 a t tm-k on tho Ptophorus, successfully dropping lombs on t lie fort ifi cat ions. All our nifK'liinf returned to their vessels, ves-sels, the latter being attacked by enemy airplanes. |