RUSSIANS HAMMERING AWAY.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 29, 4 February 1915, Page 5

RUSSIANS HAMMERING AWAY.

TEMPORARY GERMAN SUCCESS. TURNED TO UTTER, DEFEAT.

APPALLING GERMAN LOSSES

(Received Feb. 4, O.SO a.in.) LONDON, Feb. 3. The Morning Post's Petrograd ■correspondent states that the Germans • on Sunday had a temporary success ac I a country estate iat Borjimoff, where ! they have lost tens of thousands sine© December 22nd. Their system was to send ten companies to certain annihilation in the hope .that the . eleventh • would succeed. when the j system failed the Germans tried sap- [ pwig. ; Early on' Sunday morning the G-er- [ mans concentrated all their artillery | between Scklaezew. and Bolimow ana ' "before two miles of trenches at Bor- \ ijimoff, where 6000 Germans were killed during the previous week. A hurricane of fire enabled the enemy to rush the trenches. .. The Russians brought up additional artillery and with a series of bayonet charges later on Sunday recaptured practically the whole of the two -miles of trenches. The German losses were appalling.