FIGHTING AT OSOVIETO.

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

FIGHTING AT OSOVIETO.

GERMAN HEAVY GUNS UNWORK

ABLE.

THE ENEMY ROUTED

(Received Oct. 5, 10 p.m.)

Petrograd, Oct. 5

Details of the fighting at Osovie'to show that the Germans were unable to use heavy guns on the m,nrshy groun.i. The infantry and machine guns advanced .within four miles of. the fortress. The Russians sortied at night and enveloped both wings, and the fortress guns mowod down the 'Germans massed in the centre. *

Simultaneously the infantry attacked the wings, "After 36 hours' fighting the Germans were 'routed, find all their heavy guns were captured.