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TO MEET RUSSIAN ATTACK. BLANKS IN GERMAN LINE. DIFFICULTY IN FILLING THEM. (The "Times.") (Received 2.50 p.m.) LONDON', July IC. Mr Stephen Wnahburn, the "Times" Potrograd correspondent, writing from the Kovi-1 Tron-., anvs that more than half the 42,000 captures here are Germans, dissipating the fiction of German invincibility against the Russians. Although the Germans are constantly adding guns and machine guns, they are finding difficulty in filling the human blanks, while the Russian depots are jammed with reserves, and there are plenty of rifles, excluding the 300,000
captured during the offensive. The weather is Intensely hot, and many of the captures are due to exhaustion. It is impossible for such intense fighting to continue long without breaking the Gorman line.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 169, 17 July 1916, Page 6
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