GERMAN NIGHT ATTACK FAILS.
TWO BATTALIONS CAPTURED. (Received This Morning, 12.80 o'clock.) PETROGRAD, December 28. Tho newspaper "Novoe Vremya" says that when the Germans left the trenches near Bolimou for a night attack,- the fire of the Russian batteries ignited .-a forest. , ■ , A Tho German lines were (sharply silhouetted, making an easy mark, ana •Were mown down. . . The Russian riflemen, emerging from their trenches and counter-ai-t'ackinia, inflicted terrible losses. A thousand Gorman corpses were collected. The remainder wore taken Tho Russians captured two battalions and eight niadimo guns,
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 29 December 1914, Page 5
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