The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-11-13
Japanese Officers Highly
Praise Bravery of Germans
The Defenders of the Forts of Tneau the Kaiser
Fought Ienacousy to the Last-Ruins
Germany and Established An Immense Army In Ea Prussia

The German rear guard was dis
lodged by us from Mlawa on November
4, suffering great losses.
Beyond the Vistula the enemy con
tinues to fall back A German col
umn passed through Czenstochowa
Russian Poland, moving west.
Minor engagements have occurred
near Warta and on the road from
Andrejew to Mechow near Merzava.
In Galicia the Austrians in their
retreat left behind them many soldiers
Ill with cholera at Jaroslau, Przevorsk
and villages on the San"
Russians Advance Into Germany
London.-Except for the fall of Using.
Tau, the most significant report from
any OF the battle fronts-and the most
welcome to the alies-is that the Rus
slams, besides driving the Austrians
back in Galicia, have reached the War
the river in Russian Poland, and have
established themselves on the East
Prussian frontier.
A Berlin official report says some
Russian cavalry crossed the Warthe,
but were driven back. To this the
Russian report adds that the town of
Warta, on the Warthe river, in Pc
land, has been occupied and that a
Russian column has proceeded west
ward through Czenstochowa, near the
Silesian frontier.
The Russians, too, are responsible
for the report that they have defeated
the Germans near Mlawa, in Poland,
Just across the East Prussian boun-
Diary and at Lyck in East Prussia.
Military observers here say the
russians have followed the retiring
&c mans at much faster pace than
was anticipated and that if they are
in force they may prevent the Ger
mans from taking up their new posi- |
tons on the Warthe and compel them |
to fall back to the Silesian border.
Despite all this, reports persist that
the Germans are sending westward |
large numbers of their troops who
have been fighting in Poland to oppose
the allies in France and Belgium That
they would do this with emo nous
Russian forces threatening their own
and richest territory military men here
say seems highly improbable unless
the Germans are satisfied a small
force can prevent the Russians enter
ing Silesia and East Prussia.
Allies Fighting Around Ypres
In the west the ding-dong fighting
continues. The Belgians, who hold
he lines along the coast, are being
given q comparative rest, after their
-hree months of almost continuous
lighting. The Germans still are con.
'entrating around Ypres, where they
IRE trying to hack their way through
he AngloFrench troops to the coast
Both sides claim to have made prog
'ess here, the Anglo-French forces
southeast OF the town and the Ger
mans southwest. Correspondents in
he rear of the armies say the fight
ng has not appreciably lessened and
hat both sides are using tremendous
weight OF artillery in an endeavor to
lear the ground for an infantry ad.
-ance.
Both armies are being reinforced. II
GEMS to be realized that the Germans
annot proceed farther west because
+ the cooperation of the warships
With the land forces and that route I
ither here or farther south must be il
uund If the Germans are to attain u
heir ambition of reaching the French :
cast.