A LAST DESPERATE EFFORT.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13592, 6 October 1914, Page 5

A LAST DESPERATE EFFORT.

GERMANS MOWN DOWN BY

MACHINE GUNS

PURSUED BY COSSACKS. •

EIGHT MILLION RUSSIANS

MOBILISED

(Received Oct. 5, 11.50 p.m.) Petrogracf, Oct. 5. * ; After, the Germans' second attempt to cross the Niemen they made a last desperate effort in the evening. Col- [ umns in close formation proceeded to

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the crossing, and again every man was mown down by machine guns.

Finally the German batteries were silenced and the enemy retreated for eight miles, the Cossacks, crossing by the enemies' pontoons, pursuing and harassing them.

One account states that 2000 Ger man corpses floated down the Niemen.

Before he left for the front the Czar, called "'out the reserves, and over eight million Russians are now mobilised.