Fighting on Russian Frontier
An early skirmish report from the opening days of World War I describes cavalry clashes and a cut rail line on the German-Russian frontier.
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The Laurens Advertiser · August 5, 1914 · Page 1
1 min readAllenstein, Germany, Aug. 3.
Fighting on the Russian frontier was confined to small skirmishes between the cavalry outposts until 6 o'clock last night. The Russians then attacked Johannesburg, which is occupied by the eleventh Pomerania dragoons. The line from Johannesburg to Lyck on the Russian frontier has been cut. The Russian losses number about twenty. No Germans were killed but several were wounded.
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