GERMANS STRAINING EVERY. NERVE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 10, 13 January 1915, Page 5

GERMANS STRAINING EVERY. NERVE.

THIRTEEN ATTACKS IN ONE

NIGHT.

RAMPARTS OF GERMAN BODIES.

(Received Jan. 12, 11.20 p.m.) PETROGRAD, Jan. 12. During the past week the German offensive lias been confined to a zone ten miles wide, thirty miles from Warsaw. Two army corps are engaged, one in trenches and the other in reserve, . ■ . .

The Germans are straining every nerve to gain the Bolimow woods, where the fighting is fierce. Positions are frequently changing hands. Despite- enormous sacrifices of men and an unceasing bombardment the Germans have failed to make headway. Thirteen consecutive attacks were repulsed in one night. After the tenth attack the bodies were piled so high' that the Russian riflemen were unable to shoot. A party was sent out. which arranged the heaps or bodies into the form of embrasures for machine-guns. The three next attacks were repulsed from behind the shelter, of the enemy's bodies. At another point on the Rawka a German six-gun field battery went into the open and shelled the Russian trenches. The Russian artillery demolished three of the guns, killing the servers. The remainder took shelter, but came out again Later. The Russians smashed two more guns, killing the crews. The last gun was served until it was destroyed.