RUSSIAN ADVANCE IN POLAND

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2300, 6 November 1914, Page 5

RUSSIAN ADVANCE IN POLAND

GREAT SWEEPING MOVEMENT ENEMY'S EAST PRUSSIAN ARMY ON THE DEFENSIVE / Petrograd, November L Official —"The German East Prussian front is on the defensive. The Ruesians liave advanced in some districts. They have captured two guns, and SOm ®.C n have- also advanced southeast of Kielce (the capital of'the province of Kielce, the southernmost province of Poland, the southern boimdarj of which marches with the Galioiau border), and captured three Austrian cLinon, five machine guns, and. 1500 prisoners, the enemy only retaining positions on the lower course of the Opatovrka (a tributary of the > istulaon ulich Opat-ow stands). The Russians further progressed along the left bank of erate battle, so far favourale' to the Russians, continues _ in the Nisko district (on the west side of the San, fifteen miles south of its imiction with tlio Vistula)." __ A "STRATEGICAL MEASURE," NOT A DEFEAT, London, November 4. The "Frankfurter Zeitung" 'defines the German retreat in Russia as a strategical measure, not caused by military failure. "Times and bydney Sll Germany is' reckoned to have last 1,000,000 effectives since the commencement of hostilities in the Eastern theatre