d bursting shells, and the thunder
of the guns was faintly audible on the outskirts of Warsaw, sixty miles
away.

Then there followed a general assault of the Germans, a charge of huge
masses of men, who followed up into the glare of the searchlights under
an inferno of gunfire. Here again the Siberians demonstrated the
qualities which have made them famous throughout the war. They met the
Germans with a rifle fire from the trenches which not only stopped them
but shattered them. They again played the old trick of allowing the
enemy to approach within fifty feet, meanwhile holding their fire, and
then blowing them off their feet with rifle fire and their use of the
mitrailleuse.

The attack failed utterly, and from the very manner of it the Russian
losses could not be otherwise than light, while the German losses in the
whole of the operations against Lodz and the neighboring positions
exceed a hundred thousand killed. No guess at the number of their
wounded can be attempted, but we know that score upon score of trains
filled with them have gone west along the Kalisz line, and still
continue to go.

*The First Invasion of Servia*

[By a Correspondent of The London Standard.]

NISH, Servia, Aug. 31.--After the butcheries and atrocities which I
witnessed during preceding battles I thought I would get accustomed and
insensible to these scenes of blood, but from my last visit to the
slaughter house I have brought such visions of horror that their very
thought makes me shudder. The object of the Austrian Army seems to have
been complete devastation.

The fierce battle which the Servians gave them incessantly for more than
a week may be divided into two conflicts of equal intensity which raged
along the ridge of the heights of Tser. Each of the two slopes,
descending one to the Save and the town of Shabatz and the other to the
Drina, is now nothing but a charnel house.

I could not say which of these two conflicts was more murderous, but
this admirably fertile region, with its countless fruit trees, is now
sheltering the last remains of hundreds of butchered men, women, and
children.

When after three days and three nights of truceless fighting the
Servians succeeded in surprising the enemy in the middle of the night at
Tser, the toll of dead was so colossal that the Servian troops were
constrained for the time being to abandon burying the corpses.

Everywhere the fighting was of the fiercest conceivable n