Evening star., 1914-11-27
Surrender Of Corps Claimed.

Surrender Of Corps Claimed.
PARIS, November e7.-Telegraphing
from Petrograd regarding the fighting
around L.odz in Russian Poland. the
of the Matin says:
One German army corps. which was
surrounded by Russian troops. surren-
ly $4,000 prisoners. Another corps,
which also had been cut of, has now
been completely put to rout-
THE Russians are attacking along
doubled intensity"
Call German Move Catastrophe.
All the newspapers Of Petrograd. says
a dispatch from that city to the Havas
fered a terrible catastrophe in attempt
ing an offensive movement with five
army corps against the Russians be-
tween the Vistula and Warta rivers.
The German turning movement 11en
in the region of Wielum to the north
of Czenstochowa also is said to have
met with disaster. Eleven German
army corps are reported to have suffer-
ed enormously, one entire division be-
ing captured
Germans Driven Out of Lodz.
LONDON, November 27.-"The German
army which has Been crushed and dis
persed from the region of Lodz." says
the Petrograd correspondent OF the
Daily News, 'is Gen. Mackenzen's COM
mand A portion of this army is now
hastening back due north, in the hope
of being able to cross the vistula in the
region of Plock.
Gen. Won Hindeuburg has ordered
the army of Gen. Francois, which was
engaged for some weeks in the Soldau-
Neideuburg country. to redouble its ef-
forts to break through the Russian line
westward of Mlawa. More reinforce
menis have been sent him from Thorn.
but the Russians still keep their grip
on the railway inside the East Prus-
sian frontier.
The Petrograd correspondent of the
Morning Post sends the following re-
garding operations In Russian Poland:
THE temper of the public Is being
tried to the breaking point by the habit
of the headquarters staff in withhold
ing important news of Russian vic
tory merely in hope OF announcing still
better things in few days. Reports
come from a dozen different sources
showing how the German forces have
been shattered.
Teutons Face Annihilation.
The German corps which broke
through the Russian center at Brzeziny
is still trying to get away from the
region Of Strykow. where 1t has been
held by the Russians for three days.
but apparently it still refuses to lay
down its arms. Conditions are such.
however, that it is only a matter OF
time when it must surrender or be an
initiated.
The magnificent marching power of
the Russian troops is a feature not
reckoned with by the Ger
mans. Some foot regiments have been
in the fighting line always on the alert
for fifty days consecutively. and have
taken in that time ten strongly forti-
fed positions, and have covered. over
difficult roads, more than 500 miles.
THE Russians are now pouring
the, easy passes or the car
pathians at Dukla, Galicia. The cap |
ture Of these passes is tantamount to
full command of the plains of Hungary |
up to Budapest"
situation Summed Up.
The Petrograd correspondent OF the
Times sums up the present situation in
Russian Poland as follows:
"One group of the Russian forces fet-
ters the Austro-German army on the
Czenstochowa-Cra front. inflicting
heavy blows and capturing guns ond
prisoners Apparently another group
Of Russians are holding at Wielun a
German column which Is endeavoring
10 go to the rescue of the Plock group.
"The main Russian force is exclusive
ly engaged against the Plock group.
whose front is cut in halves. Its right
half is surrounded on all sides, And -