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Show RIVERS CHOKED WITH BODIES OF AUSTRIANS London. "The newspaper correspondents corre-spondents describe horrible scenes on the battlefields abandoned by the Aus-tro-German forces last week," says the Morning Post's Petrograd correspondent. correspond-ent. "Streams, they say, were choked full with slain men, trodden down in the headlong flight till the waters were dammed and overflowing the banks. Piles of dead are awaiting burial or burning. Hundreds of acres are sown with bodies and littered with weapons and battle debris, while wounded and riderless horses are careering madly over the abandoned country. The trophies captured comprise com-prise much German equipment. An ammunition train captured at Janow (11 miles northwest of Lemberg) was German, while the guns taken include 46 heavy caliber bearing Emperor William's initials and belonging to the German Sixth army corps. "The line of retreat of the Austro-German Austro-German forces was blocked with debris of every kind valuable military mili-tary supplies, telephone and telegraph installations, light railway and other oth-er stores, bridging material in fact, everything needed by a modern army was flung away in flight. Over one thousand wagons with commissariat supplies alone were captured. "Newspaper dispatches assert that the German troops have been interspersed inter-spersed with Austrian troops in the intrenchments in order to raise the morale of the Austrians. One correspondent corre-spondent declares that while the Austrians Aus-trians took flight the Germans were ready to the last man to perish." , i |