GERMAN TRENCHES CRUMPLED UP.
TERRIBLE EFFECT OF RUSSIAN
FIRE.
LONDON, July 17
}lr. Gibson, the Daily Chronicle's correspondent on the Russian front, describing the fighting at Grusiatyn on the 7th, says the German trenches, which were a monument of patience and labour, melted like mere earthworks under the shattering impulse of great shells. Many hundreds of men were buried 20 feet deep in bomb-proof shelters. Communication trenches were found blocked by men afraid to retreat owing to the hail of shrapnel in their rear. They eagerly surrendered. Most of the enemy were killed during the shelling, the remnant surrendering when Russian bombers and bayoneters poured into the first line trenches. An exception was a Hanoverian regiment, which fought magnificently till overwhelmed and destroyed.
Gruaiatyn was taken with the bayonet, many of the. enemy being killed.
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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 19 July 1916, Page 5
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