A BRILLIANT CHARGE
HOW RUSSIAN CAVALRY AVERTED DISASTER, By I Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Petrograd, July 25. During a critical moment of the Russian rotreat at Tchzkanoff 1 (rCiechaiioff), when the enemy pierced our front, / and only one brip;a'de 4 was holding them, four squadrons of Hussars and 600 CosBacks brilliantly charged the enemy's lines and out a way through three lines iof infantry, i throwing them into tcrir.iblo confusion. l . ' The enemy's batteries retired as fast j'as possible. -Tho infantry_ivas thus left , unsupported, and ivas decimated by. the '/Russian guns. i The Russian losses were due to nuro.erous machine-guns concealed ili the rye and houses of tho village.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2524, 27 July 1915, Page 5
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107A BRILLIANT CHARGE Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2524, 27 July 1915, Page 5
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