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Show RUSSIANS FIGHT BACKJERMANS London, Jan. 1, 2:52 a. m "Tho fiqhtini; aboul Bolimow (on Russian Poland, eleven miles east of Lo-WiCS) Lo-WiCS) has ended disastrously for tta Germans," says the Petrograd correspondent corre-spondent of the Morning Post. He states I hat the "Russians have now got the German and Austrian armies In western Galicia practically spl"1 into three." By FREDERICK BONNET. Petrograd, Dec. 31. The Germans ; have accepted with the best grace possible their repulse from the river Bzura Their attacks on tho Rawka are also weakening, especially since the Russian heavy artillery has been lurnerl against their own. Their asl attack on the Bzura was made from tho village of Mlodayszin on the left on a dark night. The Russians on the opposite maintained a dead silence with all bivouac fjre and lihls extinguished The (ior mans with carls laden with pontoons drawn by horses, whose hoofs were wrapped in rags, moved slowly throuph the village toward the rher. Meanwhile new German forces were gathering with machine and field guns Guns Belch Forth The complete silence continued on the Russian side and the Germans be-pnn be-pnn to cross the machine guns first and Ihe infantry following Just before dawn they deployed considerable forces on the richt banks Suddenly a salvo met them from the Russian side, followed by others, and soon the whole bank was one mass of fire The Russian shells swept down the eneiAJ by tens and then by hundreds and were soon smashing the pontoon bridges and Bweeping the confused and panic stricken masses of the German Ger-man infantry Into the river Some tried to swim across, but were drown ed in the swift current By 9 o'clock nothing remained but heaps of German Ger-man corpses. Their final attack upon the Rawka , was made one frosty night when they i forded the river from the shallow sandy san-dy banks. They were allowed to cross and advanced about two-thirds of a mile. When they came upon the Russians, the Germans started to charge with their bayonets, but a dis-' tance of 100 yards from the Russian position they were met with a terrific ter-rific machine gun and rifle fire. The German ranks recoiled immediately, imme-diately, but ll was too late. The Russians had pot behind them The Germans, surrounded on all sides fought furiously, the battle lasting seven hours The Germans lost bore 1 J'hi killed and ".000 wounded. |