MATURING TOWARDS FINAL VICTORY

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2325, 5 December 1914, Page 7

MATURING TOWARDS FINAL VICTORY

RUSSIAN ENVELOPING MOVE TERRIBLE CARNAGE SOUTH OF LODZ \ rj.,_, . , , • _ , • Petrograd, December 3. German reinforcements from Kakcz (on the Prussian frontier, due west Iftl *%&&£ in a desperate encounter near Lask (twenty miles southK 1 ™)' were repulsed. The carnage was terrible. Whole regiments tea under the Siberians' onslaught. . The Russians, by retaking Strykow (ten miles north-«ast of Lodz), regained possession or the Lodz-Warsaw railway. Their plan to envelop the German left flank, south of Plock (on the Vistula, 60 miles north-west of Warsaw; is progressing, and the Russian movements as a whole are maturing towards hnal victory. It is stated that the failure of the enveloping scheme a week ago was due to the late arrival of General Rennenkampf'e army, which should have closed the trap. Jit is added that Rennenkampf has been superseded. A communique states: "Fighting contiues in the Lowiecz dietrict Large German forces, transported principally from the Western front and from Germany, began the offensive at Lutoinersk (12 miles west of Lodz) and Szczercow (34 miles south-west of Lodz). / "We have taken Bartfeld (on the Hungarian side of the Carpathians, the terminal station of a railway line leading directly to Budapest), capturing eight omcers, twelve hundred men, and six machine guns."- ' / . s'OTCLONE.OF TROOPS IN A SEA OP FIRE.'i (Eeo December 4, 5.20 p.m.) _,_..„_ „, , ~ , „, . Paris, December 3. The Pans "Journal" describes the fighting in Poland asf "a cyclone of men and horses in a sea of Breathe most agitated battle since the Napoleonic Wars The movements of the armies are so rapid that Generals have constantly, to ANTI-AUSTRIAN' FEELING IN BOHEMIA'., ("Times" end Sydney "Son" Services,) (Rec. December 4, 6.20 p.m.) ~ .. . .-.,,. . .... . London, December 8. in r+T, ? 1 T f V £ 7 "Rasing amongst the Czech population m Bohemia, and the arrival of the Russians will probably provoke a revoluDESPEEATE SITUATION IN PRZEMYSL* (Rec. December 4, 7.40 p.m.) The 'Archbishop of Przemysl describes the position of the beleaguered city as desperate. There has been enormous mortality amongst the garrison, stores and provisions are exhausted, the soldiers and the populace are sufl fering from hunger, and the authorities have lost control of the situation riundering is rife. STORIES OF, GERMAN- 'ATROCITIES ON THE BATTLEFIELD. .(Rcc. December 4, 10.30 p.m.) Renter's Petrograd correspondent state*:- L ° L s . a The Tsar re touring the military hcspitals in Central and Southern Rus- „„ of e*™ ll «"*. Austrian treatment of the Russian wounded . on the battlefields are, pnma. facie, so atrocious that a committee, presided over by the Grand Duchess Mihtza (?), has sent representatives to the front to investigate the reports; Refugees at Lodz testify that the Germans are systematically using ammunition waggons marked with the Red Cross Terrible.reprisals are threatened if the Germans continue to murder peaceful; citizens in cold blood, as they are reported to have done. Dependents of.Russiane living in Gahcia before the war are in a piteous plight. The-Aus-tnans arrested 10,000 Russians at the outbreak of the war, and a thousand of , the Russians were advancing through' Galicia they rescued 2000. The. remainder were sent into the interior of Austro, Jiungary, and their fate ja unknown.