Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-12-11
GERMANS TAKE
CITY OF LODI
Important Victory Of Kaiser's
Forces Is Announced.
WARSAW NEXT OBJECT
Occupation of LODI a Prelude to Fur
Their Activity-Russians Claim Vic
tories French Official State
ments Continue Optimistic.

London, Dec. Sit was officially an
nounced in Berlin today that the Ger
mans occupied LODI Sunday.
Lodz is the second city in Poland
and lies rs miles to the southwest OF
Warsaw.
Around this important town a des-
perate battle has ragged for days.
Here countless thousands have fallen
in desperate hand-to-hand conflicts and
from the shells of hundreds OF guns.
Fighting Is Heavy.
1t was evident from the occupation
of Lodz by the Germans that the heavi-
est kind of fighting has been going on,
for late adyices told of vicious at
tack and bombardment of LODI and
fighting on the outskirts of the city,
and, previous to that, of operations 20
miles west of Petrokow. which lies con-
siderably south of Lodz, and along
line from Glowno. 16 miles northeast
OF Lodz, to the Vistula river.
Lodz has long been an objective
point of the German army. 1t has
grown in recent years from an insig-
nificant place to be one of the most
populous cities in the Russian empire.
In 1910 its population numbered
415,604, and with this important place
as base it is expected that the Ger
mans will make a strong effort to
reach the Polish capital of Warsaw.
Ridicule German Claim.
Petrograd, via London, Dec. IAN
official statement Issued here de-
scribes as ridiculous the German
claims of having captured enormous
numbers of prisoners, cannon and ma
chine guns. 1t says that the armies
have been fighting continuously and
that it is impossible to estimate the
losses.
'On the other hand" says the state
ment, the German denial that they
have lost single gun is disproved
by the fact that in the Brzeziny dis
trict alone (near Lodz) we took from
them 20 guns and large amount of
spoils. AS to German prisoners,
10000 have passed one point of our
front where prisoners are registered.
Neither do the Germans mention
tie supply columns which they burned
nor the cannon and ammunition which
they abandoned in the forests and
which we are gradually finding"
The capture of one of the advance
positions at Przemysl is regarded as
comforting a valuable advantage to
the Russians in their attack on the
fortress. Russians are pushing in
small bodies steadily across the plains
of Hungary and fugitives are en- route
to Budapest.
1900 Russians Captured.
Vienna, via London, Dec. 6.-The
following official communication was
issued today:
THE battle in Poland is progressing
favorably. The Russian forces which
marched to western Galicia were at
tackled by Austrian and German
troops. We captured 1900 prisoners
and some trains.
I'm the Carpathians there has been
some fighting. The enemy, who broke
into Beskit Stelburg, has been re-
pulsed with the loss of 500 prisoners"
Russ Report Termed False.
Berlin, Dec. (by wireless. THE
following official statement from the
German general headquarters was
given out today:
"The report given in the Russian
statement of November 20 that the
German attacks in the vicinity of
Czenstochowa failed with many cas-
ualties to the Germans is false. The
attack of the Seventeenth Russian
corps, which approached to within So
yards of our lines, was repulsed, the
Russians taking position farther back
and leaving a large number of killed
and wounded.
From Vienna it is officially report
ed that small engagements near lynn
bark. Galicia, have been successful to