Eastern News
‘■AS YOU WERE." NO STRATEGICAL PURPOSE ACCOMPLISHED BY THE ENEMY. Times and Sydney Sun Service. (Received 8 a.m.) London, March 17. The Times’ Petrograd correspondent says; The close of the winter campaign leaves the whole AustroGerman army of three million men as far as ever from the accomplishment of any strategical purpose. They have maintained the Eastern frontier, hut they can’t prevent the irresistible growth of the Allied armies. Beyond Shorok we compelled the Turks to evacuate the Murgul Valley, where the local copper mines, which are owned by an English company, were worked by the Germans, the maximum output of ore being exported. The machinery was left intact, probably because they hope to return' at an early date. RUSSIAN PROGRESS REPORT. United Press Association. Petrograd, March 17. Official: Our offensive continues ou the Niemen and in the Orzicc and Przasnysz districts. Despite a snowstorm we carried the enemy’s positions ■in the Smolink region, taking 2400 prisoners. The Austrians,retreated in the direction of Baligrod. Russian infantry, marching breasthigh in snow, captured fortifications at Tarndwice, taking two thousand prisoners! i
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 64, 18 March 1915, Page 5
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181Eastern News Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 64, 18 March 1915, Page 5
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