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Show J RUSSIANS HAVE j WON A VICTORY W f Pewoffrad. Jan 31 The Russian cenera-1 staff gave out today the following fol-lowing statement "In the region of the forest north of Plllkallen and Gumhlnnen (Ea&t Prussia) the battles continue. Here, In he region of the village of Lebe galen, we repulsed the Germans b a counter attack with bayonets. "On the left bank of the Vistula, at the approaches tn Borplmow, the Germans during the night of January 29 and the next day repeated their attacks upon our positions, but weTe everywhere thrown back with great losses, except at one trench which re mained in the hands of the enemy In the region of the village of Jido-mltze Jido-mltze the German attempts to take the offensive during the day of the 29th failed. General Battle. "On the Carpathian front, in the jossee of Dukln and Wyszkom, the fighting is graduall assuming tho character of a general battle In this region, the Austrians. having concentrated concen-trated contingents from some of their adjoining sections and from other fronts, have attempted to deliver de-liver an offensive through the valley Df the lower Sen and the roads leading lead-ing across the passes to Sambor and stryj. "During the 28th and 29th battles In the Carpathians were favorable to us in several sections of our front Particularly fortunate was our offen-t offen-t sive in the region of the village of Xljnia Pollanka, southwest of Mukla (Galicla). where by bayonet attacks we captured three lines of the enemy's en-emy's trenches. Likewise fortunate was our offensive on the front southwest south-west of Jasliska and Baligrod and southeast of Loudoviski, where in one sector our troops gained a position protected by wire fences. Many Prisoners Taken. "During these two days we took thirty-five more officers and 2500 soldiers, sol-diers, captured two rapid fire guns and one cannon, while our other troops took prisoners the precise number num-ber of which has not been determined deter-mined "On thp Black sea on January 27 Our fleet hunted out. near Sameoon in Aela Minor, the Turkish cruisers Medjldieh and Rreslau, pursuing them until nightfall. On January 25, 26 and 27 out torpedo craft sank several Turkish sailing ships. On the 28th one of them effected a bold raid upon Trebizond. 175 miles east of Sanisoon, where, after cannonading , the enemy's troops which fled, she damaged barracks and flour depots The same torpedo boat silenced at Rlzah, thlrty-fivp miles ea6t of Trebizond. Tre-bizond. two of the enemy's batteries, sank several feluccas and damaged barracks." The following report from the general gen-eral staff of the Russian army of the Caucasus was gion out "On the Sari Kamysh front, on the evening of January' 27, one of our columns, profiting by a snowstorm, crossed the crest of the mountains and seized, after a violent struggle, the village of Garness, making prisoners prison-ers there the chief of the Thirtieth Turkish division with his staff sixteen six-teen officers, seven surgeons and 450 others, and capturing three cannon and more than 200 rifles, a convo' train and a large quantity of war munitions and provisions. "The next day the Turks captured the column, but were repulsed by a counter attack with great losses, abandoning aban-doning to us a rapid-fire gun "Elsewhere there have been the usual fusillades." no |
