OBSTINATE FIGHTING IN POLAND

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2323, 3 December 1914, Page 5

OBSTINATE FIGHTING IN POLAND

GERMAN ATTEMPT TO Mkli THROUGH RUSSIANS ON THE CREST OF THE CARPATHIANS GERMAN. OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF THE LODZ BATTLES. ' ■ ,' i ' ■ (Rec. December 2, 10.10 p.m.) ,i a> •i' - ■ London, December 2 ■ An. official message from Berlin states that the German army, east of Lodz , was seriously threatened in the rear by tho Russians, who broke through after fierce battles lasting for three.daye." "We captured twelve thousand prison-' ers, and.twenty-five guns,- without the loss of a single gun. Our losses were not light, but they were not coloesal." • ,■ ■. ; / ' ■ ■ " . "our offensive operations crowned with ■;;-■•■ ■..■'■ ', . success" : i...■■ ■ . ' . PRUSSIAN GUARDS BRIGADE DEFEATED. ' "■„-■-„ 'v ■■•'•. ~ , \. Petrograd, December 2. The Tsar has gone to the front. .Official.—"Our offensive operations northward of Lowicz have been crowned with success. The enemy's reinforcements from Kalisz (on the Prussian border due west of Lodz) took the offensive at Sieradz (24 miles south-east of * Kalisz), and our advance guards in the Laskii district engaged in a 'desperate battle air day. Further south we captured Szertsoff, where a brigade of infantry of the Prussian Guards, with five batteries, were dislodged and driven back ill disorder. ■■...■ : : AUSTRIAN CAMPAIGN AGAINST SERVIA . ■ violent Attack repulsed, -with loss. ■ ■.-,•■■„,■'■, . ,_ ,• , Nlsh r November 30. Ofhcial.—"The Austnans violently attacked the *Lazarevatz front on' Friday, but were, repulsed everywhere. .We captured twenty, officers and 1500 men." ' ' . . " • ■ *Lazarevatz is probably a mis-spelt ..sending for Posarevatz, 40 miles southcast of Belgrade, and D miles on tho Servian side of the Danube.