DARING FEAT BY RUSSIAN 1 OFFICER.
,(Roo. November 20. 1.40 a.m.)' Petrograd, November 19. Wtiiln the Germans were constructing a pontoon bridge over the Vistula, a Russian officer and twenty men, under a fearful fire, oonveyed a barge and blew, it up near the pontoon, destroying the latter. Only a few Russians escaped alive. The troops In some places have been in contact for many hours, and there have been incessant bayonet attacks. One officer stated that out of hia troop of threo thousand barely a hundred sap' vived.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2312, 20 November 1914, Page 5
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89DARING FEAT BY RUSSIAN1 OFFICER. Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2312, 20 November 1914, Page 5
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