"THE VALLEY OF DEATH."
SUICIDE FOLLOWS SURRENDER
PETROGRAD, Sept. 15
A wounded officer from the fight south of Zamose describes the attack on 15,000 Austrians, who were mostly in a deeply wooded gorge. The Russians first shelled the gorge, the shrapnel bursting .with marvellous accuracy. Then the Russian infantry s-tormed the position, though badly cut up by the Austrian, guns, and when . another party of infantry stormed from the flank the Austrians surrendered almost immediately. The gorge was filled with dead, which were also lying in heaps on the slopes. The Russians named it the "ValUy of Death." The Austrian general commanding the division watched his men disarmed. Presently, when the Austrian standard was brought from the gorge, the general drew his revolver and -oinmitted suicide.
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Northern Advocate, 16 September 1914, Page 5
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