"HOLD TO THE LAST BREATH."

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 17 July 1916, Page 5

"HOLD TO THE LAST BREATH."

HINDENBURG’S APPEAL TO HIS

TROOPS.

Received July 16, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, July 15

Officers captured on Hind'enburg’s front state that Hindenburg told the men: “Nothing remains between us and the Russian cavalry except your positions. Hold to the last breath and the last drop of blood.” He has substituted German Landstrum for Austrian corps. The Russians pene_ trated and held twelve miles by two miles width. In two days a division drove the enemy nearly four miles until compelled to pause to level up the flanks. The Germans apprehended that the opening of the gates would allow the masses of Russian horsemen to sweep over the plains of Lithuania, turning the position at the Dvina, threatening East Prussia, and concentrated masses at the threatened point ( managing so far to comply with Hindenburg’s despairing summons, but the numbers of the Russians must tell in the end.