GERMANS REPULSED AT BORJIMOFF

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2376, 4 February 1915, Page 5

GERMANS REPULSED AT BORJIMOFF

TREMENDOUS LOSSES BY THE ENEMY IN POLAND Petrograd, February 2. A communique states: By a vigorous counter-attack, we recaptured all the trenches at Borjimoff. The German casualties were colossal. The Germans iu tho Lipno-Dobryzn fight during the past week lost sis thousand killed and many wounded. The Russians in three days on the Wislok-Nijniaia front, in Galicia, captured seventy-eight officers, 4065 men, four guns, and ten machine guns. GRAPHIC ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE AT BORJIHOFF. (Rec. February 4, 0.30 a.m.) a*. , nr . London, February 3. it. J ?- onMn e Post's" Petrograd conesponaent states' that the Germans on bunclay had a temporary success in the country of State Borjimoff, where they lost tens of thousands since December 22 by the system of sending ten companies to certain annihilation in the hope that the eleventh would succeed. When this system failed the Germans trieTT sapping. Early on Sunday morning they concentrated all their artillery between sckTaczew and Bolimow- before two miles of trenches at Borjimoff, where six thousand Germans were killed in i'le previous week. A hurricane of fire enabled them to rush the trenches. The Russians brought up additional artillery, and by a series of bayonet charges later on Sunday recaptured practically the whole of the two miles. Ihe Gorman losses were appalling.