SENSATIONAL COUP BY THE RUSSIANS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2318, 27 November 1914, Page 5

SENSATIONAL COUP BY THE RUSSIANS

GERMANS THROWN INTO CONFUSION REPORTED CAPTURE OF WHOLE ARMY CORPS ('■Times'.' cad Sydney i'Snn" Services.) ' Patrograd, November 25. The fighting at Low.icz (45 'miles west-south-west of Warsaw) was very, heavy. The German attacks were Teduced to disorder by the Russians driving in another column of.'Germans. In the confusion the two forces became mixed up and retired in. disorder. The Germans are now attempting a diversion tb assist those in retreat by sending reinforcements from Wielun (55 miles southwest of Lodz) to attack the Russian. Left. A Zeppelin wliicli was dropping bombs on Plock (on the Vistula, north- ' west of .Warsaw) was brought down and captured. RAILWAY- STRATEGY: VERSUS FORCED MARCHES, The Germans' skilful use of the strategy of the railways gave them decided advantages in the early days of the fighting on the Vistula and Warta, but the Russians, by_ wonderful marches of thirty and even forty miles a day, always had the position well in hand, and even delayed throwing out their troops, in order to' tempt the Germans further east. a BRILLIANT SERIES OF SUCCESSES RUSSIANS ACROSS ITHE CARPATHIANS. (Rec. November 26, 8.40 p.m.) . Petrograd, November 25, • 3l\. popular demonstration took place on the announcement that the Russians had made -prisoners of a German army corps at Lodz. Official. —"Fighting near Lodz continues. Masses of Germans, who made an incursion east of Lodz, hro now hard pressed, and'are making a supreme effort to break through northwards. "We have captured, south" of Koluszke (22 miles south-east of Lodz), prisoners, heavy artillery, • and field guns. We were victorious in the Lowicz district, and hold the advantage on the Czestoeliowa-Cracow line. , "Wo have enveloped a considerable force of Austrians beyond tho Carpathians, near Mezo Laborcz (110 miles _ south-east of Cracow, on. the line which passes through the Ncu Sandcc district, occupied a_ few days ago), capturing a general, 40 officers, 2500 men, three railway trains, and machine funs, and have occupied Homwona (about 25 miles south-east by south of lezo Laborcz)." . . WHOLE DIVISION CAPTURED AND ANOTHER IN PERIL. (Rec. November 26, 11.5 p.m.) ■ London, November 26. The "Daily Mail" says that the Russians during the fighting at Lodz surrounded a German division of 15,000, which surrendered. Another is hopelessly placed, and is expected to be captured, a total of 50,000. "If the Russian strategy succeeds," ■ says the "Daily Mail," "it will bo the biggest nc\ys of the whole war." _ Thirty-sis trains have left Warsaw to 'bring the prisoners: THEXATEST: WHOLE ARMY CORPS CAPTURED : '-' r RUMOURED ANNIHILATION OP ANOTHER. (Rec. November 27, 0.30 a.m.) London, November 26. The "Daily Telegraph's" Petrograd correspondent states that forty-eight trains, have been dispatched to Lodz for the conveyance of prisoners, indicatinc tliat at least one army corps was captured en masse. Tho Germans a ; ro retreating along, the whole line, the rotieat in places amounting to a panicstricken rout, howitzers, field-guns, and ammunition stores, being abandoned ■in large quantities. '• . , One account states that an entire army corps lias been captured, with nrtillerjkand transport, and that another army corps was practically anni.' hilated. ■ /WHAT THE KAISER SAW AT OBERNALGEN. - , (Rec. November 27, 1 a.m.) Copenhagen, November 26. The Kaisor. last week was present at Obernalgen, > in East Prussia, and witnesesd the German defeat from a hilltop. When the Genmms retreated to* wards the hill the Kaisor abruptly, departed,