Germans Defeated At Ossowetz Fort
A brief Russian dispatch claiming a German defeat at the Ossowetz fortress in Russian Poland — a small, largely forgotten episode of the Eastern Front's early fighting.
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Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · February 21, 1915 · Page 1
1 min readPETROGRAD (via London), Feb. 20.
The German forces have been badly beaten at the fortress of Ossowetz, twenty miles northeast of Lomza, in Russian Poland, after a stubborn artillery battle, according to a telegram from the Russian general staff to a high personage here. The Germans are reported to have suffered heavy losses and are now retreating to the East Prussian frontier.
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