A HUNGARIAN ACCOUNT.
BUDA PESTH, May 11
The following description is given o? tho crossing of the Dunajetz at Oftinov, where there are high bauks on both sides. The Russians were well entrenched. Bridge construction w..is impossible. ' Working silently in the night the Auslro-Germans bo:'i;d great tunnels towards the banks and fitted rails jt'or convtoyinjc pozuoons on wheels. The tunnels were blown in) at th? hist minute. Twenty -.jomoon:-; were launched. Nine were uextroyo.l by gun lire, but eleven reached the other bank. Many aboard were tie.id or dying, but there were suOicient survivors to•enable the other pontoons to cross. At least two thousand Austro-Germans were killed at the crossing at Oftinov. The Russian artillery was amazingly good at first, but later became weak,'owint>; to lack of ammunition.
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Northern Advocate, 12 May 1915, Page 5
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