Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-12-09
DECLARES GERMANS
HAVE WON VICTORIES
Berlin War Office Makes Claims
of Successes in Polish
Fighting.
CONFLICTS IN FLANDERS UNPRO.
DUcTlVE OF RESULTS.
engagements May Only Be Described
as Desultory-Report That General
De Wet Has Been Captured, ENDING
the Rebellion in South Africa.

| tne rebellion in South Africa
London. Dec. 2.-The Germans have
pushed back the Russians in the re-
gion of Lowicz and captured 10000
prisoners, the German war office as
serted today. The following state
ment was issued in Berlin:
In the battles of WIaclawek. Kut-
no, Lodz and Lowicz the eastern army
has taken between November IL and
! December l more than eighty thou
sand unwounded Russian prisoners.
| There is no news from East Prus-
STA
In northern Poland battles are TAX
ing their normal course.
In southern Poland the enemy's
attacks were repulsed
The success of the Germans in cut
ting their way out of the trap laid
for them by the Russians has cost
General Rennenkampff his command
according to a dispatch from Petro-
grad, which says the Russian leader
has been relieved because he was two
days late in carrying out orders of
the Russian general staff. The delay
is said to have prevented the COM
| plete encirclng of the German army
and resulted in its escape
Reopen Battle of LODI.
! Advices from Petrograd are that
two German corps hurried down the
valley of the Vistula, the Russian
call for re-enforcements was an
| swered and the battle of Lodz has re-
opened. 1t might be renamed the bat
| tie of Lowicz, as today the severest
/ fighting RACES around that city. The
Lowicz- Strykon-Lo dz-Kalish railroad is
! the bone of contention. The Ger
mans hold this
On the lien from Strykon to Zdun-
skawola the Germans have built
trenches covered in the front with
shields of barbed wire. Riveted gun
emplacements are all prepared for
prolonged fighting. The German right
flank rests securely on the Warte.
| The left is on the Vistula.
For two days the Germans have
! fought through from Glowno to So
| bota, threatening the Lowicz-Kutno
! line, which is vital to the Germans.
In the northern area the Germans
have not yet entrenched. 1t is feared
| they plan to do this and thus bring
| the tedious type of warfare to the
! eastern zone, hoping in. this manner
| to maintain themselves in Russia dur
| ing the winter and compel the Russian
| army to abandon the idea of Invading
Silesia.
Russ Surround Besiegers.
Writing of the campaign around
| LODI. the Moscow correspondent of
| the Daily Telegraph says:
LODI. the most important indus
trial town in Russian Poland, has
been closely besieged. the Germans
| inclosing it from the north east and
south. The Russian army was as in.
a sack, but rallied with great power,
resolution and heroism in order
merely not to escape from the diff
cult situation, but to rout the en-
envy.
AT the moment when one portion
of the Russian army was resisting
most violent attacks of the Germans
upon the city. other troops were turn
ing their right flank while third
portion. after circular march,
struck blow at the rear of the enc
N.Y. Thus the Germans, who had en-
deavored to surround the Russians.
found themselves surrounded.
Nevertheless the German army,
outfanked and pushed to the rear,
made supreme efforts to pass by Lodz
from the east and south. A fight
with the bayonet began. There were
skirmishes even in the outskirts
of LODI, where barbados had been
constructed during lulls in the fight
ing.
Stake All on Lodz.
Petrograd, Dec 1.-The Germans,
apparently for the time being, have
ern campaign nthe Ludz venture. ST.
berian regiments thrice charged the
Rzgoff positions before the Germans
evacuated them In some of the
trenches the dead were piled many
deep. Shrapnel and machine guns
played a comparatively small part in
the fighting. which mostly was hand
| tc-hand with bayonets and butt end
| of rifles.
/ Russian aviators performed signal
service. One landed in the middle
| of the Germans and rose untouched.
| r,ho ooronlaue WAS hit by 40 bullets,
| 46 of which struck the shield protect
ing the aviator. The steering appar-