CAUGHT IN THEIR OWN BARBED WIRE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3041, 30 March 1917, Page 6

CAUGHT IN THEIR OWN BARBED WIRE

GERMANS TRAPPED.

On the Baranovitichi front recently (says the Petrograd correspondent of the Central News) the Germans were hung up on their own barbed wire, owing to the adroitness of the Russian gunners. At daybreak the Germans sent out a thick column for the purpose of attacking the Russian trenches. These troops cleared a way through their own entanglements, and advanced before their artillery could operate, against the Eussian positions, but they bad not moved from their wire defences before they found themselves, owing to Russian gunfire, in a most difficult position.First they were stopped in their advanoe, and afterwards they began to retire, but' the Russian gunners ; got the accurate range, and covered the only means of exit by a murderous rain' of shells. The Germans thew themselves in their frenzy from one side to the other, but only succeeded in entangling themselves in the maze of their own wires. The panic was indescribable. The men were caught like flies in a spider's web, and struggled vainly to-extricate themselves, until the majority of them were killed. Those who were able to scramble out represented only a small part of the column'who had advanced to the attack a 6hort time before,'