Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-12-03

German forces, under Yon linden
burg, extricated themselves from a.
very embarrassing situation and in do
ing so inflicted heavy losses upon the
Russians, but in turn sacrificed great
( ly on their own side.
On More Equal Terms.
London, Dec. s.The Berlin official
statement issued this afternoon says
that in Northern Poland battles are
taking their normal course This is,
believed to Indicate the German lines
have been reformed and that they are
giving battle to the Russians on more
equal terms than when they We're
partly enveloped.
The Russian statement issued early
today admitted the Germans have re-
sumed the offensive on at least two
points of the battle front in Northern
Poland but the Russian statement
LAYS some stress on the capture of.
German ammunition barges on the
Vistnla river, near Plock, as indicat-
ing the cutting off of a convenient
means of communicate with the
German armies in Poland.
Capture 10000 Russians.
The latest German statement says
the report circulated in the foreign
press that the $4,000 prisoners taken
by the Germans at Kutno are includ-
ed In the 10000 Russian prisoners
previously taken by the Germans, Is
untrue. The statement says in the.
battles at Wloclawek, Kutno, Lodz,
and LoWicz the German eastern army
has taken between November III and
December 1 more than $4,000 url-9
wounded Russian prisoners. German
reports admit heavy losses, but say
there is the consolation of having IN
fiicted severe punis shment on the en-
emy.
According to dispatches reaching
London from Petrograd, Lowicz and
Lodz still are critical points in the.
lighting Id north Poland, where the
final decision, when it does come, bids
fair to be the most momentuous OF
the whole war PetrograG adFices5
assert IL 1T be true that the Germans
have freed themselves from the pres
: ent danger of crushing defeat in
Poland, the situation in the north
and south still is pictured as menae-4
ing for them. The Importance OF the
eampaign in the extreme north ls In
dicated by the report that Emperor
William has gone into East Prussia
nersonally to direct the movements
against the invading Russians 81
6 Germany Not threatened.
Nowhere else is German territory
threatened BY an invading army, ex-5
cept il small part Of Alsace, which
has been held by the French since
the early days of the war. The Ger
man official statement today says
there is nc, news from East Prussia
To the south, In Galicia, the Russians
are reported to be pressing forward
in an attempt to surround CracoW.
Cholera in Austria.
One OF the great and terrible en-
enaies Of vast armies has made Its
appearance In the Austrian ranks,
with the possible prospect Of also In
yading the Russian armies. Cholera
In all its hideous forms has taken
possession of some Of the Austrian
divisions now in the field and lis said
to be reducing the ranks faster than
the leaden missiles of the armed foes.
The exact extent to which the ar
mics Of Austria are afflicted with this
dread disease Is not known in de-
tail, but it is admitted that the pres
er,ce of cholera lis a source OF great
anxiety on the part of the Austri ian 1
governrnent, to say nothing of the ifis
;terest evinced by the world at la arge. &
Regarding the progress of events
in Poland there is a decided conflict
j,e rlteT SfJtes PetTograd 3St. Peters