Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-02-06 | Page 1 | Germans Attack in Immense Numbers

sffiir Hindenburg Hurls More Than 100,000 Infantrymen Infan-trymen and a Heavy Force of Cavalry, Supported Sup-ported by 100 Batteries Batter-ies of Artillery, or GOO Guns, Against but Six Miles of Russ Line. MUSCOVITES ARE READY FOR FIGHT Ensuing Battle Is Extraordinarily Ex-traordinarily Sanguinary; Sanguin-ary; Whole Companies Exterminated; Others Come Bravely on; the Fight Continues With Unchecked Violence. PETEOQRAD, Feb. 5. The following fol-lowing official communication from the general staff of the Russian army was issued tonight: "The combats on tlie Bzura and Eawka rivers continue with undiminished undi-minished energy. Our troops began be-gan an offensive movement, crossed the Bzura near its mouth, captured a portion of the enemy's position near Dakhova, and dislodged the Germans from their bridge head. "In the vicinity of Borjimow, Goumine and Wola SzycUowiecka our attacks alternate incessantly with those of the enemy under an unbroken artillery fire. "On the remainder of the left bank of tho Vistula front, south of the Skieniiewice-Warsaw rai'.way, the artiUery firing has diminished somewhat. "We blew up a bridge on the Nida which had been constructed by the enemy near the village of Gerniki and repulsed some attempts by the enemy to launch an offensivo on the Nida near Eembow, and on the bank of the Dounaietz opposite the bridgehead at Conar. "In the northwest Carpathians, in tho direction of Oujok, we continued con-tinued the offensive and took as many as 3000 prisoners. To tlie southeast of Oujok we are still being be-ing submitted to very high pressure by the enemy's force. PETEOGRAD, Feb. 5, via London, Feb. fl, 1 :25 p. m. Not since the battles bat-tles around Lodz in Russian Poland, in the early part of Decomber, nave tho Germans delivered such vicious attacks as those of yesterday, when they attempted at-tempted to break through the Russian lino at Borjimow. Probably never before in tho eastern arena of the war have thoy concentrated concentrat-ed such a force on a single point. In a distance of six miles between Humin and Borjimow, the Germans threw 105,000 infantrymen, together with heavy forces of cavalry, tho wholo supported by 100 batteries of artillery, or 600 guns. It is estimated that in thin short, line there were nearly 30,000 men to the mile coming iu on ten or twrlvo lines like the waves of the sea. Artillery Useless. The Russians, warned by the nttachs of previous days in this same vi'i nity, had concentrated correspondingly heavy forces to resist tbe German advance. .So cloe were both sides packed in this narrow space that the artillery became practically useless. The battlefield was a fist plain unobstructed unob-structed by either trees or houses. The latter already had been demolished by shell fire. The Russians met the German Ger-man advance with rille and the bayonet, bayo-net, the first lines bt rnjiB'ins I'nrvwiid and backward from trench to trcm-h. Harvest of Death. At some places the triremes were r.;ilv a few hnn'lred yjinls upart. The c'ost -ness of the line ma-le Ihe hL-ntiiiL- eytra'n-cinarllv eytra'n-cinarllv sn : L'uiiy n . WPfee loiopynieM u-i e exterminate.. The It.ost .lesj ::i a I e German lesistaree vvn s a' Wola Szyi!e-wle.-ka, tthieti the Hassl.-i lis sier..e(e.l In teklng at (l .cloek in ll... ne.rnln.s after a flelit which iaste-1 all ntqlit. German prlM.neis repite thal in the (Continued on Page Pour.) GERMANS HE FIERCE ATTACK Of! K0V1TES Masses of Infantry and Cavalry, Cav-alry, Supported by 100 Batteries of Artillery, Hurled Against Enemy. (Continued from Page One.) German camp the division chosen to lead this undertaking was duboed the "division "divi-sion of death," since it appeared to be a foregone conclusion that none would survive. sur-vive. Russian military observers, with the meager details before them, are likening liken-ing this fight to the battle of Borodino, where Napoleon lost his Russian campaign. cam-paign. The battle at Borjfmow is continuing con-tinuing with virtually unabated violence.