RENNENKAMPF'S MOVE.
DEFEATS GERMANS' INTENTIONS.
(Press Assn.—Reed. 9.20 p.m.)
LONDON, Sept. 20
The "Daily Chronicle's" Petrograd correspondent describes General Rennenkampf as rushing .his brigade forward on a night march, and as-spoiling the German preparations to envelope, his left flank.
The Russians, under a tremendous artillery and rifle fire, repeatedly drove back the Germans, and eventually car-
ried the trenches, which were filled with corpses, next captured the town and the stone houses were converted into miniature fortresses and surrounded by deep trenches and wire entanglements. Each had to be taken separately.
A collection of handsome coffins was found for the use of officers.
During the Germans' twenty days' occupation of Luneville twenty townsmen were killed, over a hundred houses destroyed, and a contribution of 6. r >o,ooo francs was levied.
A party of German engineers in an automobile laden with bombs intended to destroy the railways, was captured in the outskirts of Rouen.
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Northern Advocate, 22 September 1914, Page 5
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