THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13595, 9 October 1914, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN.

BATTLE OF AUGUSTOVO

DEADLY FIRE PROM RUSSIAN

GUNS, itlii USOVIETO ENvxAtfJEMfc^T

Petrograd, Oct. 7

When the Russians emerged from the western exits of Augustovo forest they found the enemy's main forces of artillery concentrated further west, and holding positions whence they opened a deadly fire across level ground from three sides of a square. The Russians were ordered to occupy the nearest height, dominating the whole countryside. The first guns ascended under murderous shrapnel fire, but reached the plateau within a few minutes. The Russian artillery decimated the Germans, and disabled their guns, the enemy soon retiring. | The retreat was transformed into a rout," Russian horsemen hewing paths ; through the enemy's regiments. I Russians at Roezki, northward of Augustovo, discovered at night time, during tremendous rain, that the Germans had omitted to post pickets. In- [ fantry, with a battery of light guns, | stalkod them under the noise of the rain, and the artillery swept the sleeping Germans. Then followed a bayonet charge.

According to prisoners, the Kaiser, before leaving Graevo, ordered Osovieto to be captured within three days. The Germans fired foity thousand shells before the Russians took the lines by a daring frontal charge of a single troop O) cavalry, combined with an infantry flunking movement.