GERMAN COUNTER STROKE
CAREFULLY PREPARED ACTION. MAINLY ARTILLERY WORK. LONDON, June 18. A Russian "Eye-Witness," covering the period from the 3rd to the 18th of May, says Germany's counter-stroke to the Russian, advance in the Carpathians was carefully prepared. It was the biggest effort yet made to bolster Austria. ~ The attacks throughout were principally confined to intense artillery woiiki, whole areas being' covered, with shells till trenches and 'men were levelled out of existence. ■ After pounding our troops with their artillery, the Germans advanced in close formation, but in almost every case the infantry attacks were abortive. Nearly all our regiments suffered- •great losses from; shellfira. Enemy airmen "delivered an intermittent but violent bombardment, and our hospitals were xemoved to the rear. At one advanced) bandaging point German soldiers, raging flnink, burst in and bayoneted- the doctor. Nine shells fell on a hospital at another point. One struck the operating room, and wounded a 'lady doctor: Some of the German trOops engaged' against" our Third Army were -reserve divisions" from the neighbourhood' of Verdun,
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 19 June 1915, Page 5
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