Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-28
0zAR S IRON CIRCLE
CLOSES ON KATSER'C
SHATTERED ARMIES
Germans in Stand at LODI
Trenches Assailed by
Bayonet Charges - Rein
forcements Flemmed In.
pETRoGRAn. Nov %

PETROGRAD, Nov. g.
The second German drive on warsaw
has been smashed by the Russian Of
fensife Of Grand Duke Nicholas. Although
The Fermans hold their trenches in the
vicinity OF Lodz these are subject to Wig
orous bayonet assaults and with their
occupation the German disaster will be
complete The southern wing Of the GER
mans has been decisively defeated and
the army Of reinforcements under General
Maokensen has been surrounded.
An iron circle Of Russians now encom-
passes both Won Hlndenburg and Won
Maokenzen. whose destruction is conf
dently expected, opening the way to a
Russian advance against the Thorn
soldau line
An official statement Issued here at
midnight gives general idea of the
conformation of the battle lines in Po-
land and OF the situation which has for
ten previous days been described only in
fragments
GERMANS FORCED OVER BSURA
The Germans have been driven back
from the Bsura River and the Russians
have reached Gombin southeast OF Plock.
The German forces that advanced to the
Bsura comprised the lcrt wing of the
Kaisers army in Poland and for time
they seriously threatened Warsaw. This
danger has been eliminated by the fierce !
attacks of the Russian reinforcements |
that were sent from Warsaw and Novo |
Georglevsk
The Russian gains in this region will |
tighten the pressure brought by the Ger |
mans from Thorn upon the Cars troops !
north of the Vistula River and prob
ably will permit the Russians. who have
fallen back toward Bug River. to re-
sumo their offensive against the Sodau-'
Thorn line
South Of the Bsura River. the official
statement says, the Russian cavalry
forced the Germans to retreat between
Brzezlny and Glovno respectively east
and northeast of Lodz, and the Russian
troops attacked the Germans in the region
of Siierz and Strykow.
Unofficial reports state that the Ger
mans are suffering heavy losses In this
region. The war correspondent of the
Bourse Gazette telegraphs that 100, 900 Ger
mans under General Won Mackenzen have
been surrounded.
1NblANr OtNCbM EMS iEMMED in.
--latest reports" he says, SHOW that
General Mackenzen is stiu fighting furi-
oUsly. with 100000 of his men surrounded
In the neighborhood Of Brzezuy and stry-
kow. Russian guns and mitrailleuses are
pouring a fearful fire into the living Ger
man citadel and few of the Mackenzen
army will be able to hack their way |
through the Russian iron circle"
The official statement sums up the sit
1ation between the Vistula and Warthe as
favorable to the Russian arms" while
farther south, where the Austrians and
Germans are cooperating on the Cracow-
csenstochowa front, further successes have
been gained on the lower Srenlawa River.
It Is here that the Teutonic Allies are
lighting to hold back the Russians that
threaten Cracow from the north
The Russian forces that worked their
way through the Carpathian foothills
after Przemysl was invested are now only
8 miles east Of Cracow, having captured
the Galician town of Bochnia, They have
also crossed the Raba River, the last big
stream impeding their advance on Cracow
from the east and southeast.