The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-11-18
kA|SER'S FORCES
FIGHT RRAVELy TO
DEFEAT INVADERS
Won Hindenburg Endeavors
To Prevent Winter Campaign
In Eatherland
Battle Grows
In Violence
In French-Belgian Zone Of
Action Allies Continue To
Hold Their Own, Germans
Making No Gain
by #. W. BENNETT,
Special Correspondent of the
London Daily News

London Daily News.
Pctrograd. NOV. 1.-The Rus
slams continue 1o intiit1 heavy
losses on tho Germans. Between
piozk and the Narthe they have
broken their communications
and the water difficulties compel
the fighting columns to CONSTANT
iy change ground. but always the
Russian cavalry maintains its AS
centiancS. The Germans In this
vicinity number probably 250.0oo.
They have on their left flank the
Russian army which has been
thrown on kaliscz. and on their
right IA Russian army which ~
lighting towards the north,
through Soidau and Neidenburg.
The Germans are unuuestionahE
suffering more destruction in this
prairie region than il they had re
manned in their own permanent pc
sitfonE around Thorn, but sacrifices
haze ~ he made sas ha only naeans ss5fs
( .arnjng whether Rass9ia's chief
strength was to be thrown first into
posen or S.lesia, or to the north
ward. The Russian leaders still keep
the enemy in the dark respecting
their main strategic plnn.
The Germans are lighting desper-
ately among the Maburian lakes. The
Russians are constantly using their
bayonets They find piles of dead ON
each line OF resistance.
Attacked on Three Sides.
The lighting was especially fierce
when the Russians took Goldap and
pierced the front of the main Ger
man column. Here the Russians
TUNED beyond the north end OF the re-
treating army, which at the end or the
days fighting found Itself attacked on
three sides II suffered so terribly
that General Francois. commanding
the German westward retreat across
East Prussia. had to detaeh another
army corps 10 screen the rear of hts
transports
From his headquarters at Thorn.
General Won Hindenburg is intenslfy-
ing his desperate effort to arrest the
development of a winter campaign IN
Germany Ills forces are fighting ye-
hementiy in large triangular battle
area in Northwest Poland. The Ger
mans are spread along IA base from
the Nistula to the Warthe. The Rus
slams form two sides OF the triangle
ard are pressing them backwards on
the frontier
Struggle Grows I'm Violence.
This struggle has grown in violence
in three days and has now assumed
the Dimensions OF great battle. 1t IL
General Won Hindenburg's last remedy
against finding his position at Thorn
passed by the great Russian armies.
one moving westward and the other
northward. The Russians are display.
ing their shock tactics. which, during
the onslaughts against the Germans
when the latter were driven from the
vicinity OF Warsaw, wrought tremen-
dous losses. The German cavalry 10
much exhausted and is suffering ter
ribiy.
Meanwhile. the Russian southern
army has begun the Investment OF
Cracow by moving armies from the
northeast along the Radon road, and
Is marching westward across Galicia-
General Dankl. who Is directing the de-
Tense of Cracow, has moved his fora-
most works six miles beyond the per-
manent outer section of the fortress
His position now Is In the firing zone
of the Russians advance,
The garrison OF Cracow consists OF
100000 men, and there are LEO guns.