EAST PRUSSIAN FRONT.
LAST MONTH'S FIGHTING. SIBERIANS IR BATTLE. (Received October 23, 10 a.m.) LONDON, October 22. The " Daily Chronicle's " correspondent at Grodno journeyed through the line which was the scene of the recent fighting in Russian territory on the East Prussian border. He stated that the Germans wantonly devastated villages everywhere, burn-' ing houses, pillaging, and smashing fcr- j . niture. Churches were invariably gut- j ted and defiled. Piteous tales wore j told of the shooting of peasants and .outrages on women and girls, which highly incensed the Russian soldiers. The Siberian regiments bore the brunt of the fighting at Augustowo. Some marched forty miles, starting at midnight, and then, went into action at Eavgaod and ended •with a bayonet i charge, about which the regiments engaged are still boasting. The Germans dug themselves with their usual thoroughness into trenches live feet deep, the earthworks trout j zig-zagging as a precaution against en- | blading.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11216, 23 October 1914, Page 1
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