GERMAN DIVISIONS ANNIHILATED
ENEMY REPULSED AND RETREATING,
(Received October 2, 10 a.m.)
PEXROGBAD, October 1
Two Gorman divisions at the battle of Druskeniki were annihilated,
The fighting on the frontier extended along a one hundred mile front. All German attempts to force a passage of the Niemen were repulsed. Tho forest of Augustov, through which the Germans axe now retreating, is twenty-four miles from north to south and thirty-five from east to west, is intercepted by a canal connecting the Niemen and tho istula, and is ‘ latterly reduced some parts of the district to a quagmire. Tho Russians are operating in the forest, attacking the German flank with a view to cutting its communications. The Gorman barbarities in Russian Poland have provoked reprisals. Three German officers and nineteen soldiers were hanged on trees m one place to expiate for the hanging of six Russian peasants.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8853, 2 October 1914, Page 6
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