STUBBORN FIGHTING IN POLAND

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2314, 23 November 1914, Page 5

STUBBORN FIGHTING IN POLAND

GERMANS UNABLE TO ADVANCE REPORTED SUICIDE OP TWO OF THE ENEMY'S GENERALS (By. TelegrapK—Press 'Association.—Copyright.)] (Eeo< November 21, 5.55 p.m.) , London, November 20. 'An eye-witness states that German Eastern strategy aims to deliver a blow] taib the heart of Poland, thus staving off. the invasion of Silesia. The Germans are repeating tho trick of moving troops backward and forwards on the railways to give the appearance of. largo numbers. - ■ " .' "The.Times'" in a leader says: "Russia is fighting single-handed along a -front of a thousand miles, from the Baltic to the, Carpathians, and is simul/■taneously carrying war into Asiatio Turkey.'. The task is gigantic, and she is exhibiting rare skill and vigour in its discharge. and Sydney "Sim' l Services. . .; '■ BAmES RAGING'AROUND LODZ, .'. v '. ■.-:■■' ■'■■.■: Petrograd, November 20., . Official.—The Germans between the Vistula and Warta Rivers are unable - *to make headway.- •'•;.••■: Petrograd, November 20. ■ '"" 'A communique spates': "The Genua Us attempted to break our line on the Vistula and the, Warta. Our offensive was partially successful. We captured, • north-west of Lodz,:a' battery of heavy artillery, ten machine guns, and made hundreds of prisoners. : \ ■'■•'. , "Stubborn actions,on the Czenstoonowa-Craoow,line are 'developing normally. '■ ';■' ■ i ■:'. .-,''■■■' "We captured three thousand 'Austriana on Tuesday,; and also ocoupied {WisnioZjGorhce,and Dukla.'* ' .■'' , The three last-named places are in Galicia, between Przemysl and the Carpathians. • ■.. ■ > ... _ . ia 65 miles north-west of Orajowij . .(Reo, November 22,5\80 p.m.); ■ {■ '~. " • -~■'■'.'.■.-. ' ■" ' Amsterdam, November 21. A' German official statement says the fighting around* Lodz and east of TCmstochowa is still undecided, "•-,■■-.-. , Petrograd, November 20. ~ General von Hindenberg continues to pour troops between the Vistula and iihe Warta Rivers, greatly strengthening Ms advance, lines, and als>» the other |and of the line around Lenczyca and Orloff. The brunt of the fighting lies in "the swampy, region, along a forty-mile front, from Lodz to the Vistula^ £/enpzyca/ is in Russian Poland, 20 miles north-west of Lodz. SUICIDE AFTER DEFEAT., ■'■'';.,.,,.• /Reo. November 22j 3.35 p.m.). >■'- ■ - : - , • "■' ■,; ■ ■ • . '''■ Petrograd November 21'. The 5 "Russ Kyslowo' Says that Generals von Bredow and v.oh Bromel com- ■ jnitted suicide at Czenstochowa, after the great German defeaV The Kaiser offered to replace the, golden crown of the Virgin in the monastery at Czenstochowa, which the Germans Btole. The Poles rejected the offer jas blasphemy. emanating from liars, incendiaries, and the violators and mur- •* derers of womon and children . SEVERE GERMAN L'OSSES REPORTED. *■' (Res. November 22, 3.35 p.m. ) , Petrograd, November 21. ... ;sho Germans reached Pronisk, eastward of the River Bzura, arid fought .>:' ( r way desperately across the riverbed which was filled with barbed wire. •;; iiy became entangled, and were drowned under the hoofs of their maddened '-:'.■ ,rses. '■".■'•'.' : ■■ . ''. ,'.'■/ While'thoPrussian infantry were' entrenching near Gostynin, 15' mileii ,; -suth-west of Plook, fourteen hundred Russians charged into thpir midst. The ''■'• xasses were so dense that it was impossible at times' to us<> the bayonet, and -■ Ae men fought with their fists. The Prussians were threefold tho . Russian '. strength. The Russians gradually withdrew. -■ , ' The Russians were definitely successful southward of Czenstochowa. 'All '•■■'the foremost.German forces were driven back, and compelled'to act on the de- ' fensive in their old positions. '«■•■' During tho Germans' last effort at Piever, on the Russian line northward of Kutno, a ■■ German cavalry division came under a crossfire from Russian infantry, ontrenchjd, with a .strong support of machine guns. The Germans •abandoned three thousand dead and weunded. # The vanguard of their advance i retired on the main body, which is now itself among tho defensive [positions round Lodz.' The Russian pressure continues, RUSSIAN 'ADVANCE CONTINUED, TEteo. November 23, 0.5 a.m.) . Petrograd, November 21. 'Austro-German forces on the Czenstochowa to Cracow front made jja # violent offensive with the intention of Helping the.Centre Army. The Russians repulsed the offensive, and drove back the enemy, inflicting enormous , ilosses,_ and taking many prisoners., . t Violent actions also took place at Oraoow,' but • the Russians contniue to ' advanoe. • '