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Show HORRIBLE SCENES 01 THE BATTLEFIELDS Waters of Streams Dammed With Bodies of Austrians and Germans. LONDON, Sept. IS, 2:46 a. m. "The newspaper correspondents describe horrible hor-rible scenes on the battlefields abandoned by the Austro-Gerraan forces last week," says the Morning Post's Petrograd correspondent. cor-respondent. "Streams, they say, were choked full with slain men, trodden down in the headlong head-long flight till the waters were dammed and overflowing the banita. Piles of dead are awaiting burial or burning. Hundreds of acres are ,sown with bodies and littered lit-tered with weapons and battle debris, while wounded and riderless horses are careering madly over the abandoned country. "The trophies captured comprise much Gorman equipment. An ammunition train captured nt Janow (eleven miles northwest north-west of Lemberg) was German, while the guns taken include thirty-six of heavy caliber, bearing Emperor William's initials and belonging to the German sixth army corps. "The line of retreat of the Austro-Ger-man forces was blocked with debris of every . kind valuable military supplies, telephone and telegraph installations, lfght railway and other stores, bridging material; ma-terial; in fact, everything needed by a modern army was flung away in flight. More than 1000 wagons, with commissariat commis-sariat supplies along, were captured. "The Bourse Gazette, which is apparently appar-ently inspired, declares that Russia will enter into no peace negotiations, direct or Indirect, until Prussian militarism is completely crushed." |