THE SIEGE OF KOVNO.
PETROGRAD, August 13. Tlie desperation, impetuosity, and recklessness of the Germans in smashing their regiments to pieces against the, Kovno forts recall their tactics in Belgium. An entire army is concentrated, opposite Kovno, with, masses of heavy artillery, which baa been hastily brought up. After a tornado of projectiles the infantry is sent forward in successive waves, regardless of the fearful havoc made by the steady Russian machine-gun and rifle fire. The only result was that the enemy approached the outer works, five miles’from the main girdle.
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Evening Star, Issue 15882, 14 August 1915, Page 5
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