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Show Paris, Nov. 10. Fighting against the center of the Russian line on the eastern front, German troops have gained possession of Russian position front of about two and a half miles. Tho attack, which resulted also in the capture of more than 3000 prisoners, took place in the district of Skrobowa, twelve miles northeast of Baranovichi, north of the Pinsk marshes, and where only isolated fighting has occurred oc-curred lately. The Russians, Berlin also says, lost 27 machine guns and twelve mine throwers. The success of the Germans is admitted ad-mitted by the Potrograd war office, which announces that the Russians, after stubborn resistance against seven sev-en onslaughts, were finally compelled to fall back to their second line of trenches. Elsewhere on the eastern front to the Carpathians there has been little fighting, according to the official communications. In Dobrudja the advance of the Russo-Rumanian forces southward continues and Potrograd records a battle with Field Marshal von Mack-ensen's Mack-ensen's troops in the region of Tcher-novoda, Tcher-novoda, recently abandoned by the Rumanians. At Tchernovoda is the brldgo of the railroad running between be-tween Constanza and Bucharest, and It is for this bridge tho Russians and Rumanians are fighting. Petrograd also announces the occupation occu-pation of several towns botween Hir-sova Hir-sova and Tchernovoda. Berlin says there have been no Important changes in Dobrudja. On the Transylvania-Rumania front Archduke Charles has assumed the offensive of-fensive and pushed back the Rumanians. Ruman-ians. In the Predeal sector stubborn fighting continues, with both the Aus-tro-Germans and the Rumanians claiming progress. The Austrlans have almost completely recovered the ground lost in the Georgeny mountains moun-tains November 4. Several trench elements north of the Somme near Les Boeufs and Sall-lisel Sall-lisel have been captured by the French. The Berlin statement says Franco-British attacks between Gueu-decourt Gueu-decourt and Sailly were repulsed. There has been much aerial fighting fight-ing on the western front. Berlin records rec-ords the destruction of seventeen entente en-tente air planes and Paris asserts that ten German machines were brought down. London admits that seven British Brit-ish aircraft failed to return to their base after, fights in the air. In one of the fights a squadron of thirty ' British air planes and a German squadron of between thirty and forty were engaged. Inclement weather continues to hamper operations on a large scale on the Macedonia and Austro-Italian fronts. . nn |