Russia.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 288, 3 December 1914, Page 5

Russia.

GERMAN OFFENSIVE CHECKED. Timm and Sydney Sun Sebviom. (Received 8.0 a.m.) Paris, December 2. The press says that the battle of Lodz clearly marks the end of the desperate German offensive movement in Poland, which will compel them to adopt an entirely new defensive attitude on their frontier. RUSSIAN OFFICIAL REPORT. v* Petrograd. December 2. Official.—Our offensive northward of Lowicz has been crowned with success. The enemy’s reinforcements from Kalisch took the offensive, at Sierodz. and our advance’guards in the Lanka district engaged them in a desperate battle all day. Further south we captured Szertsbff, where a brigade of infantry and

the Prussian Guards, with five batteries, were dislodged and driven back in disorder. ‘ v The Czar has gone to the front. A GERMAN ACCOUNT. Amsterdam, December 2. An official Berlin report states that the German army east of Lodz was seriously threatened in the rear by the Russians, but' broke through after fierce battles lasting three days. We captured 12,000 prisoners and 25 guns without losing a single gun. Our losses were not slight but not colossal. STRUGGLE UNDECIDED. GERMAN GENERAL AND HIS ARMY IN TROUBLE. (Received 8.15 a.m.) Petrograd, December 2. The struggle is still undecided, the main battle line being unaltered. A portion of General von Mackensen’s army was driven towards Lowicz, another was hurled back on Lodz, and a third terribly mauled and pressed back beyond Fushen. Subsequently, during an attempt to break through northwards, the Germans ran the gauntlet under a terrible fire from batteries, to Lowicz and Sochacgew, where the Russians received them with a frightful hail of shrapnel ailci press of bayonets. Then the cut and battered enemy ran. the gauntlet to the southward, where Russian batteries, cavalry, and bayonets drove them back. The Germans made desperate attempts to reinforce Mackensen, one whose sections .rests at Drunskovalia on the Warta, holding the road to Kalisch. \ THE NEW RUSSIAN UKASE ANb THE FINNISH CONSTITUTION. (Received 8.40 a.m.) London, December 2. Scandinavian newspapers pitfrlish a new Russian ukase, strengthening the Imperial Government’s authority, in Finland and express dissatisfaction with it as the death-blow to the Finnish Constitution.