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BATTLE OF PBIPET MABSBGES
ALMOST CONCLUDED.
GRIM PICTURE OF 0IHE FIGHTING
LONDON, Wednesday Morning —
The Petrograd conespondent of 'The
Daily Chronicle' gives a grjm picture
of the battle of Pnpet Marshes, which
is almost concluded. The Russians
are now facing the list serious natural
barrier, namely, the Stokhod, separat
ing them from Kovel
Mr Perceval Gibbon, a war corres
pondent, says that through trains are
running from Brussels to Kovel, pour
ing along the lines as fast as possible,
and bringing ever more men from Gcr
manyV great reservoirs of flesh and
blood The Russian's latest prisoners
include men utterly inexperienced in
nghting, who had been whirled easi^
ward, detrained in the wet in a. pnme
va forest, and tumbled headlong into
one of the most desoerate battles m
historv It is most significant that
the reinforcements are for General von
Hmdenburg, who, prisoners report, is
at Kovel, with General von, Lmgen
sen and a galaxy of other generals
Tjhe Russians recently captured the
Bulgarians who had been sent to the
eret front against their will, and $rere
eotmTOlled to advance, the German
threat being that they would be ma
chine gunned The Germans suffered
ghastly Josses at the village of Kiaah,
they attacking Tepeatedly m a dense
formation. A withering £re from the
Russian guns destroyed -the gas con
tainers, loosing the gas among the
Germans, who fell back an piteous
disorder The slopes were carpeted
^p£fh corpses of Austnaas, who lack
-the Germans' vicious efficiency The
Aiistoans attempted to destroy ?-
roads as they retreated, thus forcing
the Russians* to advance over quag
mires The Germaos improved the
dangers ot tfte ghastly swamps by con
-ealing sunken, cocoons pi harbed wire
am quagmires, jrtudi trapped the
i
!men, who vere unable to tear them
|«ires away. The Germans placed
mines in the muddy -channels, - and even
covered miles of the ooze with an imi
tation of a firm foothold, in hope to
prove a mantrap to, the Russian
pursuers. The tactics in no wise re
sulted important, -Siough-the striking
losses exasperated the army, which
hitherto had been in the habit of tak
ing prisoners.
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