FIGHTING ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT
AUSTRIANS TURN ON THE GERMANS I By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright tv. •, \ ' ~ , , , , „ Petrograti, April 30. Enemy deserters state that when the flooding of'the Austro-German trenches at Pinsk necessitated a withdrawal, the Germans retired first, leaving the Aus, trians to hold the trenches. The Austriana wore so incensed that a bloody hand* to-hand fight followed. About a hundred were killed or wounded. German and Austrian troops hurried up to help their comrades, and the fight lecame so serious that the German staff sounded the alarm of a Russian attack. The ruse was successful. ENEMY RECAPTURES LOST TRENCHES. „ Petrograd l , April 30. A Russian official communique states: "The Germans, attacking in olose formation, recaptured the trenches whioli had previously been lost south of Lake Narotch. .
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2760, 2 May 1916, Page 5
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126FIGHTING ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2760, 2 May 1916, Page 5
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