HAIL OF RUSSIAN SHELLS.
GERMAN TRENCHES MELT.
t DEFENDERS OVERWHELMED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 1 a.m.l LONDON. July 17. The Daily Chronicle correspondent on the Russian front, Mr. Gibson, describing the fighting at Gulevitse, south of the Sarni-Kovel railway, on July 7, says the German trenches, which were monuments of patience and labour, melted like mere earthworks under the shattering impulse of great shells. Many hundreds of men were buried 20ft deep in bomb-proof shelters. The communication trenches were found blocked with men afraid to retreat owing to the hail of shrapnel in their rear. They eagerly surrendered. Most of the enemy were killed during the shelling, the remnant surrendering when the Russian bombthrowers and men with the bayonet poured into the first-line trenches. The exception was a Honved regiment, which fought magnificently i till overwhelmed and destroyed. Gulevitse was taken at the point of the bayonet, many of the enemy being killed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16285, 19 July 1916, Page 8
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155HAIL OF RUSSIAN SHELLS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16285, 19 July 1916, Page 8
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