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A Russian air squadron raided the Baranovitchy railway station. Once more, on July 4, 1916, the coast of Courland was bombarded fruitlessly from the sea by Russian ships. The operations of the Russian forces against the front of Field Marshal von Hindenburg were continued, especially on both sides of Smorgon. On the Riga-Dvinsk front the artillery duels were growing more intense.
In the neighborhood of Lake Narotch Russian activities on that day were restricted to artillery fire. The Germans assumed the offensive on March 25, 1916, on the Riga-Dvinsk sector.
In April he added five more divisions to the forces around Verdun by weakening the effectives in other sectors and drawing more troops from the Russian front. It was rumored that von Hindenburg was growing restive and complaining that the wastage at Verdun would tell against the success of the campaign on the Riga-Dvinsk front, which was to open when the Baltic ice melted.
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