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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 725, 28 November 1914, Page 5

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RUSSIAN ADVANTAGE RE- • PORTED. GERMANS CLAIM VICTORY. Received Friday, 9.20 p.m. , Petrograd, Friday. Official.—The Lodz battla continues to develop. The Russians Becured an advantage and the German efforts are directed to extricating a corp3 which penetrated Brezing and are now retreating in the Strykon ragion, north of Lodz, under vary favourable conditions. The Russians took prisoners eight thousand Auatrians, including two complete regiments. Amsterdam, Friday.-

It is officially stated'in Berlin thut Von Mackßen was victorious! at Lodz and Lowckyz. They captured forty thousand uninjused prisoners: seventy cannon; 160 ammunition waggons; 136 machine guns;, and destroyed 30 cannon. The final results of the fighting is pending.

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GERMAN FLANK TURNED. LARGE FORCE CUT OFF. Received Friday, 10.40 p.m. London, Friday. The Daily Telegraph's Petrograd correspondent *says the battle of Koluszki ib the crowning victory in the folish campaign. While the main German army was hurrying down to Thorn and to Plock, a strong force was thrown at Koluszki the junction of three railways east of Lodz. The Germans knew the main Hussian force was attacking Czenstocb-

I the Russians to face about bo fore Warßaw fell, but the success wherewith the Germane had torn up bridges and railway hud blocked their own game and made the Russian advance aj difficult that reserves were still in the vicinity tA' Lodz, when the news can.o of the second attack on Warsaw. The Russian wing made a half-turn and battled its way towurds the German rear, driving the Germans thirty v miles in a single day and finally enveloping the riflht flank of the Germans in the Lodz district. Meanwhile, the Russians broke the German centre north of Lodz,, severing the right flank from the main budy now striving to hew its way northwards, but the chances of cacape are Blight. The reserve army at Weilun wbb set in motion too late and thß Russians were able to check the advance. Captured cannon and prisoners are already pouring into Warsaw, including Prussian Guardsmen. Though thty have received tneir winter clothing, many are maimed and disabled with frostbite. ENORMOUS GERMAN LOSSES. Received this day, 8.45 a.m. London, Friday. Earl Kitchener, in the House of Lords, fedded he helieved the German losses on the Vistula and Warta to be the heaviest they have yet sustained.