THE VALLEY OF DEATH.
AUSTRIAN GENERAL'S SUICIDE. FOLLOWING SURRENDER. Received Tuesday, 9.20 p.m. Petrograd, Monday. A wounded officer from the fight Bt Suth Zamose, decjribes the attack on 15,000 Austrians, mostly in a deeply wooded gorge. The Russians Bhelled the gorge, the shrapnel bursting with marvellous accuracy. Then the infantry atormed the position though badly cut up by the Austrian guns. Another party of infantry atormed from the flank and the Austrians surrendered almost immediately. The gorge was filled with daad lying in heaps on the slopes. ' The Russians named it the "Valley of Death." The Austrian general commanding the division watched his men disarmed, and presently the Austrian standard was brought from the gorg*-. The general then drew his revolver and suicided.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 704, 16 September 1914, Page 5
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123THE VALLEY OF DEATH. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 704, 16 September 1914, Page 5
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