Russia
ON THE RIICA FRONT. I j PbFSB iA«BOOTA'ri'dN!I: * ! \ March 28. j ?T/he Times', ■correspondent reports fthat obstinate fighting, with a clear *preponderence on the Russian side, continues on the entire front from Riga to Poliesie.. The Russian advance on the left bank'of the Dwina 'helps to nullify the Germans'.; elaborate labor throughout the winter, k'hile the pressure on such a wide front distracts and prevents the Germans from localising, the conflagration.". ■ '' f ' ... •' i OFFENSIVE STOPPED BY FLOODS WHEN THE WATERS SUBSIDE. (Received 8.15 a.m.) London March 29. The Chronicle's Petrograd correspondent says a big Russian advance is impossible at present, as the floods would soon stop it. The operations are confined merely to clearing the elevated ground in order that when the waters subside the, Germans will be unable to re-occupy it-,• t ;, - FURIOUS GERMAN COUNTERATTACKS. RUSSIANS EXPLODE MINES. IN CALICIA. (Received B<ls .a.m.) , • , Petrograd., March 29. A communique states: The Germans made furious counter-attacks northwest of Postavy. We exploded thirteen mines north of Boyans, in Galicia, rushed two enemy trenches, killed the survivors, and destroyed five guns. A GERMAN REPORT. London, March 28. A Berlin communique reports that the Russians again hurled fresh masses on the German lines at Postavy, where the Saarbrueck Corps are bravely defying the assault. An attack in several waves by two Russian divi'sious was dasTied to pieces by the Brandcnburgeis and Hanoverians, .-jWho are fighting with the Sarbrueck . .Corps.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 97, 30 March 1916, Page 5
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