TaÌˆgliche Omaha tribuÌˆne. [volume] (Omaha, Nebr.) 1912-1926, 1916-08-12

The Stokhod Is from fifteen 10
fifty feet wide on my sector OF the
front and only waist deep, The Rus.
sians have web hands and feet,
They're like ducks not a biz afraid
Of the water. 1t can't stop them.
hey q easily cross the Stokhod.
but then they have 10 90 over six OF
eight hundred yaids or swampy
meadow, though not In masses. for
the Russians can neither throw
themselves down nor intreneh, and
while VIC lay a barrier fire behind
them and shrapnei on them our
machine guns NOW them down from
the front aud flanks. The Russian
masses that storm across the Stok.
hod fall into the FIRE trap from
which few miraculously escape.
The Russians tried their amazing
Cossaek tactics on me once, but only
once, undertaking a cavalry charge
against my machine guns over the
meadows at Liniewska, but they ali
faded away under artillery fire before
the machine guns had a chance &c
get busy. A cavalry attach under
such conditions is heroic, but never.
theless madness. No other nation
would have done it.. The Russians
as a rule don't repeat a new stunt
when they've once failed, and | ex.
pect no further mounted Cossack at.
tacks, though | am ready Tor them.
My losses, while my division had
the task of holding up the Russians
pouring through the breach at Lutsk
were, Of course, heavy, but since
reaching and holding the Stokhot
line they arc very light now on ms
entire front. | can show you ms
daily reports here. On one day one
dead and two wounded for the en-,
tire division. Five dead and sever
wounded on another day. And SO
on In attacking TOO, il losses are
small, thanks TO our thorough artil
lery preparation"
What the Blood and Iron Men Did
BY request, the General modest,
told how his one division had beer
hurried against the Russian army ad
vancing from Lutsk, plugging up III,
hole torn by the Russians in The
Volhynian front and saving the crit
ical situation, for which feat til,
Blood and Iron Division nou bears
the name OF the commander.
The division was rushed out here
by train" he said, and met the
advancing from Lutsk II
the neighborhood OF Rozyscze. Bat
talon after battalion was thrown
INTO the battle as tast as ever they
could be detrained. ldat was OH the
sth. During the 9th, 10th, and 18th
for three days and two nights
was almost continuous fighting
and no sleep. OF course, We went
back step by step to the Stokhod
ere We now stand.
THE few kiiometers which tho
Russians made frorl Lutsk to tht
stokhod do nor matter. The i'm
1ortant thing Is that they will ge'
lot an inch further. Fortunately
he Russians are also human. II
hey had attacked me harder on Tho
irst day and had kept it up I prob
IDLY couldn't have held item. They
Would have broken through me. The
Russians are strongly built, good
material, BIT la emit the
ierve and brains Of our German
roops. We have plenty Of German
eserve, and ] get them as quickly
S needed. If | lose two hundred
men ] telegraph, and three days
alter two hundred fresh troops ar
i've.
Then the General, concluding
pitomized the whole Volhyniab
ampaign. saying ~sueeinctly: .
When | am built in / can resi-
ssured that with one hundred mer
cal. hold one thousand Russians