AT THE BAYONET'S POINT
GERMAN STORY OF RUSSIAN
HEROISM
London, March 9. A German officer who was taken prisoner, in desoribing the straggle of the Russian division which cut its way through the German hosts from East Prussia, said:—"We descended on the retiring division, which bristled with bayonets'at every convenient opportunity, though struggling in deep mud and racked by weariness, and. with no hot food. Such a struggle could not last long, the forces were so uneven.
"The division shrank and melted, but declared that it would fight to the last. Our troops surrounded it on three sides. On the fourth side was an impassable swamp. The Russians burned the German colours they had taken, hid the Russian colours, buried their guns, and the survivors then formed into a solid mass and' dashed in all directions, forcing a way through with the bayonet." —"Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2406, 11 March 1915, Page 5
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148AT THE BAYONET'S POINT Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2406, 11 March 1915, Page 5
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