COSSACKS AS FIGHTERS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 24, 27 September 1915, Page 3

COSSACKS AS FIGHTERS.

Unite)) Press Association. Amsterdam, September -20. An Austrian artilleryman graphically describes the difficulties in the Pripet marshes. ''Despite the terrible conditions of uarrOw paths and unceasing rain.'' be sav.s, "a strong line oi cavalry and artillery slowly penetrated tlie fearfuj region, constantly fighting the Cossnelcs,-- who showed great courage and contempt for death, preferring death to capture. They broke through our cavalry lines at the thinnest point, but now wo have closed up as mucli as, possible, and must .search every wood v.iil'i the utiuosfc vigilance for larking Goss-jicks to prevent an attack an cur rear. 'The Cossacks are ebstiimtely persevering in their resistance. They charged our batteries so effectively thai cut guns were powerless, and bur firtilerymeir resorted to revolvers. Our eav.dry surrounded them after a desperate combat ,-bui the Cossacks did not surrender, and all \\Qve put to the sword." GERMAN PROGRESS REPORT, Pefrograd, September 26. A communique slates .there is another intense cannonade i J * • tho Miga region. The Germans are uimg asphyxiating projectiles. There iwjie repeated desperate allacks on (he D\ tors!.-; front which were repulsed. The enemy >.\[ Nero All'xamlrnvsk gaiivd oyr I reaches, but we dislodged i.hv!:!. 'I hoy aHacked in compicd columns, but met,-our artillery and rifle (ire at close" range and retreated in disorder. The attacks ivere twice renewed and.were repulsed with enormous lassos. Our heavy losses were the result of Ibe desperate nature of the fighting, and was the best proof of the bravery of our troops, During the enemy's disorderly retreat in l'jogtiiehinadist we took many prisoners. -In a hot fight lor two villages in the Dujmo region, we captured thirty officers' and sixteen hundred men, RUSSIAN HAUL OF AUSTRIANS. j- . ' Petrog'rad Septemher 26. Between Septen>l)er, 10 and 20. .T"5,000 Austrian prisoners passed through Kieff. RUSSIANS REPORT SUCCESSES. Petrograd, September 26. A communique says: There is a desperate, uninterrupted battle near Novo Alexandrovsk. Our troops, by a dashing bayonet charge, expelled the enemy from Vileyka. We captured eight guns and seven machine-guns, and turned them on the enemy. We defeated the Germans .near Loguicime_ and ' reoccnpied the town. We captured a portion of the enemy's artillery after our cavalry bad sabred the gunners. .We have dislodged the enemy from sevenil villages south of Pripet. Our operations in the Lutsk region are practically successful. We stormed the enemy's positions north of the town, which we rooociipiocl, and captured in addition four thousand prisiiners, with machine-guns and much equipment. Our troops with great dash seized the 'Krasbo bridgehead, and occupied the -villages southwest of .Lutsk; killing many Magyars with -the bayonet.. We took one thousand priso 's in Ibe fight ing I'oi all entry to Foids, in the same, locality, and we drove back the ruffx -till further south-west of Temboola. The Germans were sometimes heavily punished for rneir over-confidence. Al one point they advanced heedlessly, believing that there wefuld be no opposition because the Russians had no ammunition. But the Russians were well supplied, and lay low mii i! Ihe Germans reached over Ihe ' utanglements in close array. Then everything way lei go t-MgeHicr and t lie Gornian.s wore p' ' Cl :c; l!y sw lit Old o.f existence. Fight flionsaod corpses strewed the holds and scarcely one German escaped umvoundod.