ENEMY'S STAND ON THE KOVEL FRONT.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14139, 15 July 1916, Page 5

ENEMY'S STAND ON THE KOVEL FRONT.

FURIOUS COUNTER-ATTACKS

GERMAN GUNS TURNED ON FLEEING AUSTRIANS.

MURDER OF RUSSIAN WOUNDED

(United Service.)

(Received July 14, 8.40 p.m.)

Petrograd, July 13

Mr Hamilton Fyfe is semi-officially assured that seven German array corps were detached from other fronts in order to try, to stop General Brusiloff. Four came from France, and the rest from the north and central Russian fronts. "The Times' " Petrograd corresponj dent describes the counter-offensive on the Kovel front, which was planned at a. special meeting between Linsingen, Mackensen, and Hindenburg. They are concentrating troops from various points, making unprecedentedly violent attacks from the sector of Zub-lino-Zaturce, preceded by a most violent artillery fire, which ploughed the Russian first lines. The defenders took refuge in shell pits, and the first assailants, the Austrians, were allowed to approach within sixty yards. Then the Russians volleyed at point blank range until the entire space in front of the trenches was strewn with corpses.

The Austrians fled in disorder, but the German guns greeted them with a- tornado of shrapnel, mowing down hundreds. The remainder franticallydashed to and fro between the two fires with uplifted hands. The Russians saved 300 of them.

German infantry displaced the Austrians, and displayed incredible obstinacy despite awful losses, hurling themselves on the Russian bayonets as tliough impelled by a savage religions eestaey. Even mortally wounded pressed forward madly yelling, '"To Luzk!" It is costing the Russians superhuman efforts to repel the attacks.

The Russians found among the German dead some of their comrades with their throats cut. Over their mutilated bodies they swore to take no prisoners.

A fierce struggle is raging over the whole length of both banks of the Stokhod, the Germans massing tail thenavailable reserves from other fronts. They are evidently resolved to. defend Kovel to the last gasp