APPALLING CARNAGE ON THE BZURA
GERMANS' NEW RUSE-" THE LIGHTNING AMBUSH " (Rec. February 11, 0.5 a.m.) j ' , Petrograd, Februarylo. Throwing strategy to the winds. Genera! von Hindenburg's massed attacks on the Bznra resulted in an appalling carnage. In the first Gorman onset from Skiernseviez the enemy swarmed. againßt the trenches along the railway, where whole companies were-annihilated in a dash through the open. ' . There were six hours of hand-to-hand fighting at Grabma m a heavy snowstorm. Whole battalions frequently charged one another simultaneously when the Russians encountered the now German ruse, the so-called "lightning ambush." A number feigned"aeath, and fired on the backs of the Russians. Huge masses of dead lay between the trenches. First the Germans charged, thon the Siberians drove them back. Bach charge added hundreds of victims. The scene at the wayside station of Badnary was terrible. The opposing forces used fragments of railway metal, shattered by a Russian mine, and clubbed each other fiercely, The enemy was finally driven back in disorder. - In the second phaso of the battle at Gumma, six miles northward, both sides reached stalemate, when the Germans, utilising railways, motor lorries, and vehicles of all kinds, rushed up an army corps and hurled it against the Russian trenches. Half the assailants wore shattered by the terrible Russian fire. Nevertheless they came on, regiment after regiment, shouting, "On to Warsaw 1" , Some of the Germans got fifty yards nearer after showing themselves, but none got beyond a hundred yards. At one point the Germa.is advanced twenty deep. Only a hundred men of one battalion survived the ordeal, and these wore blown to pieces later by a Russian mine. _ . It is ostimated that eleven thousand were killed at Gumina in two days. RUSSIAN OFFICIAL REVIEW OF THE OPERATIONS. (Rec. February 11, 0.40 a.m.) Official.—The Germans began operations in the- Lasbhiren region, in East Prussia. We repulsed and exterminated almost a whole battalion. "The Germans lost ten thousand in their six days' attack on Borjimoff, Gumine, and Voliashidlowski. "Our offensive iii the Lupkow Pass region continues. Sisty-niuo German officers, 5200 soldiers, and eighteen machine guns were captured. The German, afur crooßiug ths Tukolkß Paea, . mada twouty-two violent ajtacjy on our iwfiitioa en 4lw Kaaanafct Hewita, .Thy?
advanced in mass formation,_ supported by, fierce-artillery fire r lossee all day. Towards evening the enemy, greatly reinforced; captnr&a bnp high position, and were only dislodged after a desperate fight, their .strength?: being exhausted by our counter-attack, which uras accompanied by uripTece-« dentedly long bayonet fighting. The m ountain slopes were littered with deads, Germans."
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2382, 11 February 1915, Page 7
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