Russia.
A BITTER CONFLICT, THE CAPTURE OF KEMMEREN. "NO GERMAN LEFT ALIVE." UNIMD t'KI.32 5188001* TION (Received 8.5 a.m.) Petrograd, November 16. Details of the capture of Kemmeren show that the enemy's position was dreuehed with shells. The Russian infantry repelled counter-attacks and broke through, reaching the German entanglements, while on e Russian unit took the enemy in the rear, subjecting him to. cruel Maxim and riflerire. The Germans in one trench waved the White Flag, biit the-Rus-sians saAv through- the device and did not leave a single man alive. The Russians advanced through thawing snow in swollen marshes with a Ger-. man Maxim posted on very mound, wading waist-deep in icy water. The Fleet splendidly supported them. Shells bursting far into the enemy's dispositions cut off the reserves, and the Germans fled/in disorder. A communique states: We - took fifty thousand prisoners, twenty-ono guns and 118 machine guns in a month.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 66, 17 November 1915, Page 5
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151Russia. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 66, 17 November 1915, Page 5
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