Hun Attrition.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 266, 26 October 1916, Page 5

Hun Attrition.

On the Russian Front.

Enemy’s Murderous Losses.

Grave for the German Army.

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[ Australia!* and mew zraland cable association.] (Received 26, 10.45 a.m.) London, October 25The “ Daily Graphic ” states that the Germans are being cut to pieced on' most of the sectors where the Russians are in numbers. The losses have been particularly heavy on the Zlota Lipa, where the Austrians and Germans are inter rrvrLd - T&y always fight badly together. The Russians in a single day stormed six positions, and took 5000 prisoners There were terrible casualties when the Germans were defeated in a great attack on the heights on the right bank of the-nver. \ One column, in close marching order, attempted to takqadi tage of the inequalities in the terrain in order to get close to the Russian trenches. Air scouts observed the co um was caught in a pitiless hail ot shrapnel. T _ e forces are believed to have lost 17,000 in a fe Enemy’s murderous losses were due to their tactics of tion. General von Hindenburg is ttying to cpy Brussfloff’s massed infantry attacks, but the battered Germans have lost the necessary nerve.

(Received 26, 1125 a.m.) London, October 25. The “ Daily Graphic’s ” summary of the situation on General Brussiloff’s front describes it as grave for the German army. General Brussiloff has accounted for 100,000 Germans in three weeks. General von Hindenburg’s experiment of standing firm and trying to hit back is nearly as costly, and quite as unsuccessful, as the earlier Austrian tactics on the Kovel front. Now a second “ Verdun on the Somme ” is a running sore in Germany’s side. Since her catastrophic defeats of June, Germany is sending from the north interior division after division,’ and hurling third-rate troops against shrapnel, rifles, bombs, and Russian field fortifications. The principal fighting is at Vladimir Volynsk, where the Germans are vainly attempting to drive General Kaledin back to Lutzk.