RUSSIAN OFFICER'S STORY
GERMANS STRAINING EVERY NERVE
BOYS AND WOMEN FIGHTING
London, September 28. A. Russian officer, in an interview, stated that there are about six hundred thousand Russians in East Prussia'. Tile forward movement was accomplished to sfiigirig. The Germane are distressed by the songs of the Russians, as they fight. '■•■•■.
"The Germans are as brave as us: they stick to it t<). the last. We fixed the tariff for ehpoting from windows in towns as follows:—For the first shot, the blowing up of the house; for a second shot in the same street, the bkwing up of tlie street. The Germans are straining every nerve to defeat us. Everyone capable of holding a gun has been pressed into service. We know that by the dead on the battlefield, which include men in civilian attire, sailors from warships, children of fifteen, old men past vhe fighting ago, and an occasional woman.—-"Times and Sydney "Sun" services.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2268, 30 September 1914, Page 5
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156RUSSIAN OFFICER'S STORY Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2268, 30 September 1914, Page 5
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