Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-10-06
GERMANS FAIL
TO DELAY Gar
PeirOgrad Says Warsaw Inya-
sion Is Turned Back.
KAISER DEFEATED ON SlEMEA


Advance Guard Of Russian ho.ts
Within Ten Miles Of cracow-Ren
nenkampf Holding Germans Back In
East Prussia--Flower OF Russian
Army Ready to March.
London, Oct. 6.-The news from the
eastern theater of war, summarized, is
as follows:
In northwestern Galicia, the Rus
SLAMS have captured the fortress OF
Tarnow. Cossacks are raiding within
ten miles of Cracow. The cars
southern armies are developing their
offensive against the right wing: of the
Austro-German forces.
in southwestern Poland, In the gen.
eral region of Cracow, near Kielce,
Russian cavalry has defeated German
troops sent from France to defend
Cracow. Unquestionably a great bat.
tie has been begun in that region, a
combat which may determine the fate
VI CidSOW anu OllcStld.
To the north in western Poland. a
great force Of Germans striking
towerd Warsaw has been checked and
pressed back by the Russians. Sim
ultaneously the Russian central army,
now under the personal command of
Car Nicholas, Is advancing toward
the Posen-Kalis2 line with Brest.
Litovsk, railway center on the Bug
river, as its base. The cavalry screen
of this army is in conflict with Ger
man outposts.
Rennenkampf Holds Germans.
In the East Prussia-Suwalki field of
operations General Rennenkarnpf, az
ter routing the Germans along the
River Niemen and frustrating an ad-
vance toward Warsaw from the north
west, has driven a wedge between
German columns acting respectively
around Druskeniki and Ossowiec and
has turned both TANKS.
Rennenkampf's large force IL oh
viorsly struggling to hold at bay the
German force at the Fast Prussia
frontier so as to give time for the
advance of the Russian central ARM
Aga rst Breslau. Petrograd reports
that he has been uniformly successful
in this strategy.
For the first time there is definite
news of the Russian central army, the
host which has been preparing for the
real invasion of Germany while cam
paigns in East Prussia and Galicia
have served to insure the safety OF the
ranks. This army, estimated as of
100000 men, is under the command
of the Grand Duke Nicholas, the rus
sian commander in chief, with head
quarters at Brest-Litovsk, a railway
junction at the intersection of the Bug
and Moukhavietz rivers.
Gar at Headquarters.
The czar arrived at Brest-Litoysk
Sunday and was accompanied to the
headquarters of the commander in
chief and the general staff by General
conjectured that the presence of the
monarch is for the purpose OF final
conference with the commander In
chef before the main blow against
Germany is launched
Is Russia's Best Army
Hitherto there has been the utmost
secrecy maintained concerning the
presence and preparation of this force.
which Is composed of the flower of
Russia's veteran troops. All reports
signify that the most important news
in coming weeks will concern the adj.
vance of this army, since operations
In East Prussia, South Poland and
even IN Galicia are really subordinate
10 the central campaign against Bres.
lau.
Russ Fifty Miles In Hungary.
Your Rome correspondent learns
that the Russians have seized all es.
sential passes In the Carpathdans and
that the advance of the column invad.
ing Hungary has progressed fifty
miles. 1t has crossed the River Thesis.
seized the railroad to Budapest. and
has completely isolated the city of
Szigeth.
Says German Army Cut In Two.
A dispatch from the Matin OF Paris
says:
THE German army In the east, op-
Grating in the Suwalki region has been
cut in two. One section has been
crushed between Augustowa and Su-
walk with losses amounting to $4,000
men. The second section proceeded
to Mariampol, which place The Rus
SLAMS have occupied. infiictfng enor-
nous losses upon the Germans. The
River Niemen is ehoked with German
dead
An Austrian column has been deci-
mated at NiInoukitz. leaving guns and
mitrailleuses. Many prisoners were
taken by the Russians.
The Cossacks are now ten miles
from Cracow."