THE LOWER STYR FIGHTING.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14142, 19 July 1916, Page 5

THE LOWER STYR FIGHTING.

TERRIBLE RUSSIAN BOMBARD-

MENT.

ELABORATE GERMAN WORKS

PULVERISED

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association,

(Received July 19, 0.25 a.m.)

London, July 17

Mr Perceval Gibbon, the "Daily Chronicle's" correspondent on tiic Russian front, describing the fighting at Grusiatyn on the 7th, says the German trenches, monuments of patience and labour, melted like mere earthworks under the shattering impulse of the great shells. Many hundreds of men were biiried twenty feet deep in bombproof shelters. The communication trenches were found blocked with men who were afraid to retreat owing to the hail of shrapnel in their rear. They cageVly surrendered.

Most of the enemy were killed during the shelling, the remnant surrendering when the Russian 'bombers and bayoneters poured into the first-line trenches, with the exception of a Honved regiment, which fought magnificently till they were overwhelmed and destroyed. Grusiatyn was taken with the bayoI net, many of the enemy being killed.