The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-12-07
Germans Escape by
Use Of Bayonet.
bLOOD|EST BATTLE OF
WAR IN LODI REGION
Conditions Virtually the Same
as One Week Ago.

London, Dec "details Of the bat
tie in the region of i.odz, North Po
land are beginning to reach here
from Petrograd, and all dispatches
indicate the heaviest fighting in that
region during the past two days has
occurred in the course OF maneuver
| ing for the possession of Lask, fifteen
miles southwest of LODI
The latest Russian official state
ment indicates fighting continues in
this region without a decision, and it
is apparent to British observers that
conditions in the north of Poland are
virtually the same as they were one
week ago. after the German army had
been saved from overwhelming defeat
| by the brilliant operations of General
Mackensen.
The most tragic moment of the bat
/ tie about Lodz thus far, it is report
ed in Petrograd occurred between
Tuszyn and BrZeziny, southeast of
LODI. Heavy German forces which
had penetrated to Tuszyn, IL appears,
were surrounded and obliged to fight
their way out to BrZeziny to unite
with the main body. The Russians
| essayed counter attack after counter
attack to prevent the junction, but the
Germans cut a passage at the point of
the bayonet, for fifteen miles.
BIoodlest Battle of War
This battle is called the bloodiest
and most pitiless of the war. Petro-
grad reports assert 80 per cent of the
German officers were put out of ac-
/ ton, and many regiments had less
than one hundred men left. The
fighting lasted for thirty-six hours
The Germans are said to have fallen
| in rows, but their comrades pushed
| forward over the bodies and hurled
| themselves against the Russians
whose losses also were great The
Germans, after Joining their main
body, were able to reform their lines
| and German official statements assert
they have now assumed the offensive
| along a considerable portion of the
| front
on the Szczercow line, which is
fifteen to twenty miles long, in a re.
| gion east of the Warta river the
| fighting, according to Petrograd adj
| vices, appears to indicate that the
| Germans have been reinforced heav'
| lily and that they are filling in the
| gap between their right wing and the
| isolated body which has been trying
| to turn the Russian left wing
Berlin claims heavy captures OF
| prisoners in the struggle in North Po
| land, while from Kiev comes the an
nouncement that the Russian fortress
| there is crowded with German pris
| oners.
In the Western Arena OF War.
The French statement says to the
north of the Lys the allies made per
| ceptible progress, the infantry making
| an attack at daybreak, succeeding in
| advancing 500 yards and holding two
| lines of German trenches.
The statement says the Germans
with violent attacks by heavy artil
lery, attempted without success to re
gain ground conquered by the French
The Germans, however. report they
| repulsed French attacks in Flanders
and to the south of Aleta, along the
Moselle river. The German state
ment also claims progress at La
Basse, in the Argonne forest and In
the region southwest Of Altkrich.
The French report intermittent can
nonading by the Germans In the re
gion of Arras and in Champagne and
add that Rheims has been bombarded
with particular severity. The French
say they destroyed some of the earth
Notifications of the Germans. Ac
cording to the French statement, the
contests in the Argonne continues te
be waged hotly, and the French sa,
they have reoccupied several Ger
man trenches and repulsed all coun
ter attacks. The French say the sit
uation in Lorraine and Alsace Is un
changed
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