THE TRAP OF THE PRIPET
GERMANS LOST IN THE MARSHES. (TIMES AND STDNEI SUN SBRTICES.) LONDON, Ist October. The Petrograd correspondent of The Times declares that Polish refugees bring the information that the enemy's horses, guns, and transports are sinking in the treacherous mire of the Pinsk marshes (on the basin of the Pripet). Guerrilla peasant bands, perfectly knowing the labyrinth tracks, are effecting sudden raids, which the Germans ai%e powerless to cope with. Tho peasants are also setting fire to their cottages, and abandoning the villages in the path of the German ad-
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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 80, 2 October 1915, Page 5
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94THE TRAP OF THE PRIPET Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 80, 2 October 1915, Page 5
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