CONFLICT AT WARSAW
FIGHTIXG FOll FLVE DATS.
BOMBARDMENT OF CITY.
GENERiALi GERMAN RETIR.Es -,- ■■ ■;: .•■ MENT.-; ■
PETROGR'AD, October 28.
The conflict before Warsaw! was conducted fiercely for five days. Long trains of wounded came in together wi'tib of German and Austrian prisotaers. Villages aw burning 1 in. all directions. Gorman shell® burs* -within, four niiles 'of the towm yet the city remained thronged with people. Even, the aerial yisitabions failed to. unpanic the popuk.ce although fifty weire killed! andl ninety-ninei injured.' Villages Avtere .taiken: and retaken many times im .the.c-.fluctuatioiuisi ba.t*te. ■.::•■■. ..■■-:..', Tlhei German, trenches were admirably 'constructed as for, a; long stay. The precision, of the Russian artillery ■vnrought dosoila;ti:on among 1 the invaders. Then the Russians' forced back the German! wing beyond the Kalawsicha road while the cavalry from the north cut in.tci their rear.' ITlio Russians crossed over ten mite south of Warsaw unopposed 1 and found the German: retirement had beh gam. Afraid of being 1 caught in .a vice by the Russian; airmies oiperaiting ncarth and east, :the German* reitir<ed, though to- the Russians th© retire^ m*nt wae unexpeotte'd.
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Thames Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14436, 30 October 1914, Page 5
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