RUSSIAN PRISONERS.
Everyone has been astonished -at the number of prisoners Xhp 'Russians have been taking, and General Brusiloff gives this explanation: "The nature of modern trenches, which makes them, with ifcheir deep tunnels and maze coinynunications, so difficult to destroy, renders them a menace to their defenders once their position is taken in rear or flank, for it is impossible to escape quickly from these elaborate networks of defences. Besides, we have for the first time had sufficient ammunition to enable us to use curtain fire for preventing the enemy from retiring from bis positions, save {thnoiugh al scathing zone of shrapnel fire, which renders . surrender imperative."
He mentioned' that he considered that what he had by then achieved was only a beginning.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11752, 19 August 1916, Page 4
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124RUSSIAN PRISONERS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11752, 19 August 1916, Page 4
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