IN EAST PRUSSIA THE ENEMY'S SACRIFICE OF LIFE
(Times and Sydney Sun Services.) . „ . x LONDON, Bth March. A Russian artillery officer, writing of the Germans' temporary advantage in East Prussia, says :— "lf I had been in authority I would simply have hanged their commanders, because of the senseless and criminal sacrifice of the troops at that fight. ' "We drenched them, as they charged in massed columns, with shrapnel, bufc^ they still came on. Then we used caseshot, keeping up an incessant fire until the dead were piled in heaps of from three to four thousand in half an hour. "Later, a second attack was repulsed, and, before dusk, a third, both with the same result. The slaughter made us feel sick. We marvelled at the stupidity of the German efforts to face a fire against which they were powerless. They were swept away like the ash from a cigarette."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 57, 9 March 1915, Page 7
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