The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-12-04
Germans Fall Back to Keep
From Being Enveloped Sec
ond Time
Great Loss In
!, Cutting Way Out
Desperate Bravery Of German
Troops Wins Admiration of
Friends and Foes Story of
Campaign

London. Dee. 3.--rle Russians
nave resumed the offensive IN
Western Poland. and are driving
the Germans down the istulu
toward Thorn and across the
plains Of Poland toward the
NartIse River.
TIE correspondent of tho 'rTfa
buna. OF Rome. teieg rapl,s frusii
Petro9rad that tremendous tS-
forts by tho Germans to break
the Russian center failed sfguatly.
and that the Germans have been
compelled IA retreat i'm order tn
- avoid being surrounded once
more.
After being surrounded near Lodx
the TrlbGna correspondent says, the
Gernlans declined TO consider The pos
ability of surrender. and with the
most desperate courage ever seen in
any var threw themselves time after
time against the walls If pussian bay
nnets until they finally hewed through
Only the unexpiainable dtiatoriness of
an able and trusted Russian general
robbed the Grand Duke Nicholas of a
victory far greater than Eyfau or
Leipsic. or Waterloo
a On November 90 the Germans fol-
1pwed mp their successful efforts for
93lf -pressrvatiun hst repeated and de-
tNrpsined cffurtx 10 break the Russian
EEAnter. -Four afrnr corps attacked day
Ind night, bus were TOO exhausted and
depleted by losses To cut through.
Meanwhile. the Russian right wing
had reached Gomi,in. and finally
pioek. on me yistula- and had placed
itself on the flank of the German army
III LODI
saved by Fresh Men.
In nfx rirn{iy1l ST nTe fhere psfs only
orc possible course for Lieutenant
General Won Mackenzen, withdrawal
! toward the Warthe, In order To pro-
Ikecs ihe main tine of communications
from kallss.s. being cut. Al LaSk, the
German withdrawal stopped fer l.
time reinforcenents having arrived
from Pnsen and from Northern Silesia.
! by means of the splendid railway sss-
f fem al the disposal of the Germans.
The Russians forced an attack at
a1A~S~ and again the Germans retired
SLOWLY. The news received by the TIL
bnna in that the battle Is flowing back
Howard the River Warthe. the Ger
mans fightinF q stubborn rear guard
action, the Russians attempting TO QUIZ
nank them north and south.
Correspondents in Petrograd csti-
mate from semi -ofF1cial information
that the Germans lost 10000 men in
KILLED, wounded. and prisoners be-
Tween November Is and December 2.
The Russian losses have been very
heavy. The SERIES of battles between
FLOCK and retrokow have been the
most Eanguinary and costly of the war.
Unexplained Dilatortness.
General Karl Won Rennenkan1pf's
failure to close the gap through which
the Germans finally broke prevented
= Russian triumph that would have
ended the campaign In a stroke. but
miittary critics assert that the opera :
tipns IN Poland have been . great dis
appointment 10 German hopes Moth
in8 vital has been gained. although a
Terrible price has been paid. and
much OF importance has been lost
Won Htndenhur~'s plunge through Po-
AND had three objects. practically all
Or first rate political importance &C
c0FIing to the critic hut none4of cs-
Dential military value. One was to
occupy Warsaw. another to frighten
the Russians cut OF East Prussia. the
third to relieve the strain on Cracow.
The second great attack toward
warsaw apAaars TO have failed "A
roynpIetely. . the frst ana although
he Germans escaped the Sedan pre-
aicfed q week ago. they are. nevertne.
eSa. in retreat and may have great
diA1culty In keeping their forces intact.
PoWerful Russian armies are south
INA north OF tho army retiring from
fbdx. The only object that the Ger
mans have accomplished BY the sac-
&iace Of thpuaa nds OF their best sol
11rs was keeping the Sighting In Rus
I'm territory.
sim Advance in East Pruasaa.
10 far as East Prussia In concerned.
i3o news II plain. The Russians have
fSver halted their advance toward In
t~shure ana Koenigsberg, and have
nnttnued to overthrcw = large Area.
M Invasion Of Poland utterly failed
Safa meAns OF creating = diversion. II
qconH0ently believed hare that . few
eayn more win - = Russian army
holdine IRsterburE and thsrsby COM
ianding the network 81 strategic rail-
kays IN East Prussia
Tho situation around CrAc0w has
beAn more Or loas overahAdowed by
ha Intensely drastic operations in
western Poland. but here again the
SheAians have pressed forward ana
1T Ia better position to capture tho
ateway to Silesia than ever before.
z the northeast of the city. Rus
tai column u reported to ~ within
f0ven miles of the city. AZ the
ScuthSast i column has occupied Wiei-
eSika, about eigtt miles from CrAcow.
a6lctAl annoslnceHnexts Justify the s,ir-
III rs ffrIr "a - 0oe0nA Pase.