WAR LOSSES IN POLAND

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2328, 9 December 1914, Page 7

WAR LOSSES IN POLAND

GERMAN CLAIMS RIDICULED SCENES ALONG THEIR LINE OF RETREAT Petrograd, December 7. An official statement ridicules the German olainis .of captured Russians, which are purely imaginative. The Germans carefully conceal their own losses, including twenty-three guns in a single district. Witnesses of previous wars state that they have never seen such sights as were seen on the roads after the German retreat from Strykow.' ' "At some points where we attaoked flanks,'- 1 the statement sets out, the German dead were piled 3 feet high. All the inhabitants of the district are now at work burying the dead. Several German divisions, especially the Guards, were so severely tried during their efforts to escape that they completely disappeared from the fighting line." GERMAN OFFICIAL BULLETIN:! "DECISIVE SUCCESS."Amsterdam, December 6. Official from Berlin.—"The Germans had a decisive success in repelling strong forces north-west and south-west of Lodz. < The results of the battle cannot yet he estimated, owing to the extensive area. The Russian loses were very heavy." . AUSTRIAN ARTILLERY RETREATS BEFORE DEFEAT. Petrograd, Deoember 7. • The military critic of the' "Bourse Gazette" has commented upon the small percentage of Austrian artillery captured, compared with the other arms Official—"A war messenger explains that since the second Austrian retreat in Poland the Austrian artillery has been invariably withdrawn before the final battle issue." ~,.,,• , , j ;„„;„„ «,„* The "Bourse Gazette" declares that this amounts to an admission that the Austrians begin the retreat before they are actually defeated. The journal also points out that the large proportion of commissioned officers among the Austrian captives is in striking contrast to the German officers, who tall fighting. FIGHTING ALONG ' A NINETY MILE FRONT, (Rec. December 9, 0.20 a.m.J y .-■''■ Petrograd, December 8. Fighting continues along ninety miles of front in the Lodz district. KAISER FURIOUS WITH HUNGARIAN PREMIER 'OPEN ENEMIES ARE NOT ALWAYS THE MORE DANGEROUS ' .. London, December 7. The "Morning Post." correspondent's dispatch from Italy deals with the recent visit to Count Tisza, Prime' Minister of Hungary, to Germany for the purpose of informing the Kaißer that he could not guarantee the goodwill and loyalty, of Hungary unless more attention was paid to Hungarian interests. The Kaiser became furious, and remarked: "Open enemies are not always the more dangerous. The egotism of your people is likely to upset the whole plan of the campaign." COUNT TISZA STICKS TO HIS POINT. Count Tisza stuck to the point that three army corps should be sent to defend the Hungarian Plains and throw back the Russians across the .Carpathians, otherwise the Cabinet would resign. ' In an ; editorial article a leading-Opposition paper says: "All we can' see is that the Premier had a big audience with the German Emperor. We are : at his mercy, even the safety of our country. ■ The Germans nave taken over even the constitutional rights of the Monarchy, .aB if we were without an Emperor and had not raised an army of four millions for the German General Staff to dispose of."- ■ AUSTRIA'S NEW CAMPAIGN IN SERVIA WARFARE DEVELOPING INTO FIELD SIEGES,. ("Times" and Sydney "Sun'.'services.) London, December 7. The warfare in Servia has developed the siege-like characteristics of tlv other European theatres. During the last few days, after terrific fighting, the Austrians forced the Servians back in some places, involving retirement -in other directions in order to. an unbroken line. There has been no repetition of the blundors of the first invasion. The reorganised' Austrian Staffseems determined to make a final and desperate, effort to crush Servia, so as to permit the transfer of her forces north, and hold Servia a 6 the territory to bo bartered for in the settlement bargaining. INVADING ARMY REPORTED TO BE IN PERIL.. (Rec. December 9, 0.20 a.m.) ■ . , ! ■ , Petrograd, December 8. A Kragujevatz telegram states there is every sign of the Servians defeating the Austrians, whose right wing has Wen broken and is in full flight. The Servians have made heavy captures of guns and prisoners.