Show I TAKE FORTS BY BAYONET CHARGE Austrian Infantrymen Face Dangers Dauntlessly in Final Attack at Brest I i Hung Austro-Hung Austro Hungarian headquarters Aug I 28 The Tho Tho fortress of ot Brest sk was I taken largely with tho the bayonet baronet ac according according according ac- ac cording to details of ot tho the Teutonic storming of or that stronghold received here The Croatian and Cracow Infantry infantry tr try are arc said to have distinguished themselves In charges against the southern and eastern fronts while tho the German reserve corps forced Its way Into the citadel and town from the I north norm Tho Russians had during the war erected a new line of ot works beyond tho the swamps encircling the fortress three to four kilometers the permanent for fort Cort girdle and had hall fortified forti fortl- tIed fled It strongly and provided pro it with ten series of or barbed wire barbed wire entanglements entanglements entanglements entangle entangle- ments as well wen as a broad field of ot burled buried mines The storm began late Inte In the afternoon of ot August 26 The Infantry of ot General von on Arse Arso advanced on both sides of ot the Biala turnpike They hewed their way war with ing tools and gun butts through tho the entanglements under heavy y an and machine gun tire fire and charged the forts with the tho bayonet rho Tho charge V was S Irresistible Tho cheering Infantry IP in the tho gathering darkness charged fort tort after fort Cort kl ss 1 u Advancing u r cc o j y w over U cr vr mine fields and springing Into the I works they tho engaged In a n desperate te I hand to h hand nd struggle with tho the stubbornly stubbornly stub stub- resisting Russians The last I I fort tort was taken b by 11 o'clock at Rt night I The Russian survivors across the the Bug DuG river were ro destroying the bridges behind them The Tho Austro forces pursued them vigorously Tho Tho- Teutonic troops reached readied tho river at 3 o'clock In th the tha morning where the they were obliged to await awalt tho the arrival of ot pontoons Tho The Germans in tho the meantime meantime mean mean- time attacking from tho the north carded carI carried car car- I ried ded this this' sector of ot tho the fort tort girdle and unhampered by tho the river stormed the citadel and forced a a. way Into the town fired tho the city In Tho rho Russians their retreat Most 1 of ot th Inhabitants loft before the tho sice and only a fow tow I remained The amount of ot spoils taken has not yet ct been a ascertained I |