BATTLE OF SUWALKI
FIVE GERMAN ARMY CORPS
ENGAGED.
ELEVEN THOUSAND PRISONERS
TAKEN
(Received Oct. 7, 0.35 a.m.)
Petrograd, Oct. 5
The Germans are still masters of parts of the province of Kieler Petrokoff, and are now deploying in anticipation of a decisive engagement.
At least five German army corps were engaged at Suwalki. The bombardment destroyed three-fifths of the town of Dru-skeniki. -
"Both sides were thoroughly exhausted, and .fighting was suspended by tacit consent on the night of the 26th.
-On the following night the enemy moved further north. Russian mortar howitzers, cleverly concealed in woods, hurled shells on the massed enemy, and whole companies melted away. Eleven thousand prisoners wero taken.
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Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13598, 7 October 1914, Page 5
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112BATTLE OF SUWALKI Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13598, 7 October 1914, Page 5
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