The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-08
Recapture of Lodz Opens Way for German Austrian Forces to Follow Railway to Warsaw Y Russian Lines of Communication Are Now Tn Danger.
WORLD CIRCULATING HOW BATTLE WAS Woag
Withdrawal of German Troops In West May Have Been to Help In Great Po-i land Campaign Lines I'm East Not Weakened Say British Experts.

London, Dec. s-WhIIe the slliea armies sin the west grope their vv forward cautiously, grappling with the
 Germans here and here for siIght advantages the great struggle h Poland continues with ehe cserrn-4 -4,a for the time being apparently scorin1 the most points
 Russia has not yet fully coss~s,.s the occupation Of Lodz. but 4,. 55szZ or the repeated German claims. and the the Russian admission of the refor~5e ton or her battle line there. if vzos,I7 seem that the German centa, T.ls achieved this goal. upsettfre- vzlsa4 Fo5- 9 time was hailed as s 7ae-isri7sa y75-5 sian victory. The carItss=-4e gtrf .T,57s. IF indeed accomplished, l thrasfe-s the Russian line of conlnnxsn5c- fi6r. with Warsaw, that 1s to esv. aI7a e-,sss arteria1 railway which runs fIise,57S,sI- Iys across Poland from Czehstocho,vs to the Polish capital Details = st5s battle are still lacking, however a15 It remains to be seen whether tha eTerrnans will be able to make a fur ther advance.
 Whether the German achieveyn,a,,ts. in Poland have been accompIished by means of bringing up reinforcemen from the western battlefront. is a. r1a+ ter of considerable debate. A dasz patch from Petrograd says it has been learned authordtaAfvseIy there +77ass sle555 Germans transferred six eTSSrnv s,ce---s. and five cavalry division from fhe west to the east, but there has 4,sasg so much unfounded speculation as to the movements of German troops thaf all reports of this nature must be dis counted.
 2 It is true that the tendencv Of inc Germans in the west has been fnclin-. ing more toward the defensive b,1t London papers caution the public that there is nothing to indicate that the German forces have been weakened seriously by shifts of troops to the east.
 The fighting in Poland has been different from that which has taken place anywhere else in the war area since the outbreak Of hosti3ties In the west the allies have always been able to hold their ground after an Lodz marks the third invasion Of Poland since the war began.
 The first was made from the south by Austro-Hungarian forces, in August The Russians checked this movement in September. Later the Austrians concentrated around Cracoyy and made a second advance, in con cert with German forward move ment from Breslau, Posen and Thorn. It was this advance which almost reached the walls of Warsaw, but the Russians repulsed it in time not only driving back the Germans to their own borders but throwing the Cos sack advance patrols into SiIesia. This feat was acclaimed by the Russians at the time as the forerunner to a on Berlin but the Germans with reinforcem ments. beat back the invaders and swept on to their present position notwithstanding the fact that for a long time fhf1v xzaI-e <l51r1-rT4vF7af7 and threatened with a disastrous de- feat.
 Today Berlin is celebrating with enthusiasm the occupation Of Lodz.