Surprised Austrians at a Railway Station.
Ken June 13, 1025 am Petrograd, June 12 Wounded Russians state that an Austrian division was surrounded and almost wiped out, the^survivors surrendering en masse An Austrian Bed Cross nurse was . takea prisoner for shootiug Russians with ft revolver. i Russians, capturing a railway station, surprised the Austrian officials at their posts. A quarter of an hour Uter a train full of troops and muniVions steamed into the station and was captured. A telegiaphist was surprised in the act of sunimonirg mote shells, but was allowed to complete his message. The shells were seat up and captured, The Russians captured the village ,of Demidooka, and are now twentyseven miles south of Lutsk and tweuty miles west of Dubno. Despatches describe the Austrian dugouts as luxuriously equipped with furuiture, including pianos, gramaphones, pictures, and ia some cases domestic kitchen?. They also laid out vegetable and flower gardens
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 6711, 13 June 1916, Page 3
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152Surprised Austrians at a Railway Station. Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 6711, 13 June 1916, Page 3
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