DESPERATE ATTACKS ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT
[ POSITIONS TAKEN AND RE-TAKEN ; SIGNS AND PORTENTS OF A BIG BATTLE ■"' : ' \ (Bj Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright). \ . ' (Aust.—N.Z/Cable Aesii. and leuter.) (Rec. November 12, 5.5 p.m.) Petrograd, November 11. A .Russian official communique states After repelling several onslaugths, we fell back on our second-line trenches in the region of Skrobowa. The enemy used liquid fire:_ ] We have abandoned the heights we occupied the previous day in the region of Dorna Vatra." Later. A later communique states"By means of a. sudden counter-attack we recaptured the section .of our trenches at Skrobowa. The enemy fiercely attacked east_ of Naraiuvka against a ridge of heights, but was everywhere repulsed, until the afternoon, when they succeeded in pushing back portions of one of our regiments. The enemy was again driven out in the evening. The enemy's offensives in the wooded Carpathians south of Dorna Vafcra.were repelled." >
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2927, 13 November 1916, Page 5
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145DESPERATE ATTACKS ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2927, 13 November 1916, Page 5
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