DETAILS OF THE FIGHTING.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 28 December 1914, Page 5

DETAILS OF THE FIGHTING.

WHOLE BATTALION S'ULOTTKD OUT. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) 1 LOXDOX, December 2G. The "Daily Chronicle's" Warsaw correspondent gives further details of mi'the nineteenth made five desperate night attemps to establish a footing on the eastern bank. ThoUh sefuxhlights were playing, and the fire from the Rowan trenches, mowed down lines of the enemy's ranks the Germans dashed into the icy, bullet-whipped water, which reached their arm-pits. Onlv once they reached the eastern hank. The rest o the attackers suffered immense losses. Sometimes a whole battalion was blotted out in a quarter of an hour. ' General Madritoff, who made a reputation in the Japanese war, commanded the Russians in this region. • The fiahtimr reached a climax en tho twentieth, when a second Geiman attack succeeded in drawing several mitrailleuses and enfilading the - trenches of the First Siberians, and captured the benches two hours later. The Siberians, reinforced, re-took the trenches, drove the Germans into tho river, and fought hand to hand in the water, each side receiving reinforcement*. ~ „ , -, - i( Tho river, fifty vards wide, washtorally dammed with corpses. . The struggling winded were drowned, and became entangled among sho dead.