LINES OF CORPSES.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2428, 6 April 1915, Page 5

LINES OF CORPSES.

STORY OF A DESPERATE FIGHT Paris, April 4. _ A description of an attempt by a' division of the Tyrolese; the best troops remaining to Austria, to capture a projecting bluff where the Russian front came near a Galician river—its. salient being, a landmark that curves in from the western front against Germany to the southern front against Austriashows that- the enemy for two days poured a torrent of shells on to a hill dofended merely by the parts of two regiments. The attackers, who were ensconced by night in rifle-pits on the lower edge of the trench, found lodgment in an upper wood, the Austrian artillery pounding the Russians over the heads of the Tyrolese infantry. An attempt was ;nado to the Russian line at the point of the salient, which was the junction of two defending rogiments. Now came tlio reply. Standing up under the cannonade, the Russian infantry, supported by machine puns, poured devastating volleys, beating out the enemy's rush. The Tyrolese tronches became lines of corpses. No attempt was made to resist, the bayonet attacks. Some Russians doseended to the river and assailed the enemy's flank. Thirteen hundred Austrian corpses were counted in th'; wood. Wjtboiit Iwspsa'si retreating trseps 14? Wife tliS HYM, ,