GERMAN ATTACK ON NOVO GEORGIEVSK.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 6496, 24 September 1915, Page 5

GERMAN ATTACK ON NOVO GEORGIEVSK.

Whole Companies Reduced to Fragments.

• Res Sept 23, 9 15 pm Petrograd, Sept 23 General Ruskoyislovoe's first detailed account of the capture of Ncvo Ueorgievsk show? that the Gennaos expected the defenders to retire. r\Vheuthe Kaiser Heard that the defenders had resolved to fight to the last shell and' that the defenders— numbering only one thousand—would make the Germans pay the heaviest price for success he was seized with ungovernable fury and asked : "Why have you killed the Russian wounded aid captured ?" The Germans said: "We were ordered ndt to leave a single living Russian The Kaiser has given instructions that the garrison of Novo Georgievsk must be buried under the walls cf the fortress." The Geruuus always assaulted in close foimatiou, although within a mile of the guns of the fortress. Our ■slidU \vere pumped into the middle or this mass of humanity, converting whole companies into mere fragments of ilesh and bone

Russiau observers likened the battleneld to a vast moth-eaten fur being beaten with a sties. With leach explosion a cloud of »umau remains ros§ iv the air. Even m iron-disciplined Germans .shrank rqui the ordeal of attacking such a uttrricune of lire.

Tile attackers nerc wade diuuk be- | x fo^ tlie 7 were oivlered forward. Not [ &Single German captuicd during the t- «saulfe was fouud to be sober. Jhe Germans attacked one* group "fortUnatiousiucessantlv for twentyjaw hours. The lWian gunners jaiuted with fatigue arid their guns • ?*»» wd-hot aud exploded under - "tatimn shots. . ■ of the enemy who succeeded *'ri*ettins closo llurleci theuiselves J«Vnaesand fixed bayonets into ...JfKasiau ranks They tlieu used ffifdenched fists and cried wildly : - ye «a-'NovoGcor S ievßkv' .^Mnsfiotatlio town over- . gttd4U battlefield, where there ; * a ~track of hud, seven versts

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(about four miles and a half) broad and two long, covered with a thick layer of dead.' Elsewhere the Germans rushed upon the diachine guns until their bodies choked action Bayonet attacks followed. The drunken Germans swept over the trenches in groups, falling upou the defenders like madmen, They bit and chewed the faces of the Russian soldiers. The Germans paid full price, hence the capture of Novo Gcorgievsk caused no joy in Germany.