AN AUSTRIAN COUP FRUSTRATED.
(Rec. July 19. 11.40 p.m.) Petrograd, July 19. A German aeroplane recently discovered the weakness of the Russian lines on the Niemen-Vistula front, and an Austrian brigado was ordered to break through. The brigade waited a night before attacking. A Russian motor transport captain accidentally discovered the Austrians' plan, rushed to the nearest regiment, and brought up the men in relays in forty motor lorries. The Austrians confidently attacked in the morning, but few survived except those taken prisoner. Later the Germans attacked in overwhelming strength, but the Russians had already retired, preserving their line intact.
GERMAN ATROCITIES ON THE BATTLEFIELD. n ~r 7i i i r,, -o 7 „ Petrograd, July 18. General Voldoff, heart of the Red Cross in the North-Western area, reports that two Russian battalions evacuated the trenches owing' to asphyxiating gas, leaving one hundred men seriously wounded behind. When the Russians recaptured the trenches they found that the whole hundred had been bayoneted. Some had twenty wounds apiece. Photographs .were taken in proof of the atrocity.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2518, 20 July 1915, Page 5
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174AN AUSTRIAN COUP FRUSTRATED. Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2518, 20 July 1915, Page 5
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