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Show RUSSIANS HAVE HEAVYFIBHTING Petrograd. via London. March 8, 11 45 p. m. The following communi cation was Issued tonight: "On the whole front between the Xiemen and the Vistula the fighting yesterday was of an extremely desper-i desper-i ate character. Our caalry captured i part of a supply column w hic h was i falling back on the village of Sein In the region of Aujjustowo a battle has heKiin two ersts f about a mile land a half) from the station of AugUB-towo. AugUB-towo. "The artillery of Ossowetz Is successfully suc-cessfully engaging the enemy's aiepe ba'teries An attack by the Germans on the Kolno and luna roads was repulsed. "To the south of Khorjele, the enemy en-emy Is bringine grc-at forces into the fighting line. The Germans, who took (he offensive south of Drobin. were 1 repulsed with heav losses I "On the left bank of the Vistula, in j the Pilica region, the action Is alternatively alterna-tively offensive and defensive. We i have captured prisoners and machine I guns ' In the Carpathians. In the rerrlon of Baligrod, the Austrlans continue their loffensie. notwithstanding their crush-'losses crush-'losses Near the village of Studente the enemy succeeded In rapturing the advanced trenches of two of our battalions, bat-talions, In the Uzsok-Munkftei region the enemy's offensive was barren of I results. Hill Changes Hands. "After a desperate battle the enemv on the 7th captured the greater part of hill 992. near Kojiouvka, but yester-I yester-I day morning our counter attack cas ! crownerl with success and the enemy I was dislodged from all the trenches he had captured. "To the northeast of Klahsse we took prisoners of the remnants of an j Austrian column which our flank had enveloped." |