Popular Excitement in Petrograd

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 156, 27 November 1914, Page 5

Popular Excitement in Petrograd

' RUSSIANS CAPTURE AN ARMY CORPS. GERMANS MAKING A SUPREME EFFORT. AUSTRIANS ENVELOPED BEYOND THE CARPATHIANS. Received 26, 8.40 p.m. Petrograd, November 26. There were popular) demonstrations upon the announcement that the Russians had made prisoners of an army corps at Lodz. ' Official. —The fighting near Lodz continues. The masses of Germans who made an incursion east of Lodz are hard pressed, and are making a supreme effort to break through to the northwards. . . We captured south of Kolusyki prisoners, heavy artillery, and field guns. We were victorious in the Lowicz district, and gained advantages' on the Czenstochawa-Cracow line. We also enveloped considerable Austrian forces beyond the Carpathians, near Mezolobrz, capturing a general, forty officers, 2500 men, three railway trains, and machine guns. Wo occupied Komona.

GERMAN REPULSES IN POLAND. \ WONDERFUL MARCHES BY THE RUSSIANS. RUSSIAN PRINCE WOUNDED. Petrograd, Novebmer 25. A Zeppelin which was dropping bombs at Ploek was brought down and captured. The Germans, by the skilful use of strategic railways, gained decided advantages in the early days of the Vis-tula-Warta fighting, but the Russians by wonderful marches of thirty, even forty, miles daily, always had the position well in hand. They even delayed throwing the troops forward in order to tempt tho Germans further east. The fighting at Lowiez was very heavy. The German attacks were disordered by the Russians, driving in another column of Germans in confusion. The two forces were mixed up, and retired in disorder.

The Germans arc now attempting a diversion to assist the retreating forces by sending up reinforcements from Pielun to attack the Russian left. Amsterdam, November 25.

German advices state that Dimitri, son of the Archduke Paul Alexandrovitch, was severely wounded in a battle on the War'm.

GIGANTIC OPERATIONS. GERMAN DIVISION SURRENDERS. TREMENDOUS RUSSIAN SUCCESS PREDICTED. Received 26, 11 p.m. London, November 26. The Daily Mail, says that the Russians fighting at Lodz surrounded a German division of 15,000 men, which surrendered.' Another was hopelessly placed, and was expected to be captured, making a total of 50,000. If Russian strategy succeeds here, it will be tlie biggest success of the whole war. Thirty-six trains left Warsaw to bring in the prisoners.

GERMAN RETREAT > CONFIRMED. A PANIC-STRICKEN ROUT. AN ARMY CORPS CAPTURED. Received 27, 12.30 a.m. London, November 20. The Daily Telegraph's Petrograd correspondent reports that forty-eight trains were despatched to Lodz for the conveyance of prisoners, indicating that at least an Army Corps had been captured en masse. The Germans are retreating along the whole line, and the. retreat in places has become a panic-stricken rout. Howitzers, field-guns, ammunition, and stores have been abandoned in large quantities. One account states that an entire Army Corps was captured, with artillery and transports, and another Army Corps practically annihilated.

the deomcrat kaiser. ! _:;jz3 ' SEES HIS TROOPS DEFEATED. Received 27, 1 a.m. |, Copenhagen, November 20. f The Kaiser week was present at I Obernolgcti, in East Prussia, and witnessed the German defeat from a hilltop. 'When the Germans retreated towards the hill the Kaiser abruptly departed.