FIGHTING IN POLAND.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 736, 13 January 1915, Page 5

FIGHTING IN POLAND.

RUSSIANS HOLD POSITIONS. GERMANS FEARFUL LOSSES. Received Petrograd, Tuesday. During the past week the German offensive has been confined to a zone ten mile 3 wide, thirty, miles from Warsaw. Two Army Corps are engaged: one in trenches, the other in reserve. The Germans are straining every nerve to gain Bolithow woods, where the fighting is fierce, the positions frequently changing hands. Despite the enormous sacrifices of men and tb.9 unceasing bombardment, tha Germans failed 'to make headway, thirteen consecutive attacks being repulsed. One night after the tenth attack the bodies were piled so high that the Russian riflemen were unable to shoot, and a party was sent out to arrange a heap of bodies to form embrasures for machine guns. The three nsxt attacks were repulsed from behind the Bhelter of the enemy's bodies. At another point, at Rawka, a German Bix-gun field cattery went into the open and shelled the Russian trenches. Tha Russian artillery demolished three, killing the servers. The remainder sheltered and came out later, and the Russians smashed two more guns, killing the crews. The last gun was served until it was destroyed.