FRIGHTFUL CARNAGE.

Grey River Argus, 15 February 1915, Page 2

FRIGHTFUL CARNAGE.

40,000 GERMANS KILLED. HEAVING MASS OF WRITHING HUMANITY. PARIS, Feb. 12. An official report states that the repulse of German attacks in Poland seems to be complete. The Russians have inflicted losses exceeding 40,000. The temperature at night is eight degrees below zero (Centigrade). It is a fact that the Germans attacked in dense formations, because the troops are incapable of fighting in open order, and this is the cause of the unprecedented losses. An eye-witness states that the fire of the Russian' machine guns cut the solid ranks like a scythe, and that when the fighting finished piles of fallen lay in front of the Russian lines and shrieks rent the air. Under the searchlights masses could be seen heaving in the efforts of the wounded to extricate themselves. By 2 o'clock in the morning all was still.