The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1914-11-26
GUMB|NNEN TAKEN
BY RUSS TROOPS
Prussian City Captured After
Terrific Battle.
CARS MEN LOSE HEAVILY
Teuton Gunners Are Ridden Down by
Cossacks Who Take Batteries
kaiser's Soldiers Fight
Desperately.

Petrograd, Nov. 24-There Is excel
still awaits confirmation by military
officers to the effect that Russians
have scored considerable success be-
tween the Vistula and the Warta riv-
ers, where two entire German regi-
ments were taken prisoners.
Emperor Nicholas while visiting the
wounded at the Tsarskoe Selo hos
pital gave this news, which had just
been received. His majesty was no
ticed to be In a particularly cheerful
frame of mind, from which those pres
ent augured that the news was in re-
atty much more important than was
thought necessary to explain to the
wounded.
In fact, It IS supposed that the turn.
ing point has been reached in the great
battle which has ben raging for
week in Poland
BY FRANCIS LAVELLE MURRAY.
International News Service Correspondent
Petrograd. Nov. 24.-While Russian
and German armies are locked in
sanguinary conflict along the entire
front in Poland the cars troops are
continuing their strong offensive IN
east Prussia. The Army Messenger
announces the capture of Gumbnnen,
after a hot fight in which Cossacks
rode down the German gunners and
captured the batteries which we're in
fiicting heavy losses on the Russian
troops.
Defense Is Stubborn.
The stubborn nature of the German
defense in East Prussia is shown by
the fact that 1t took the Russian troops
! days to cover the Is miles between
Gumbinnen and Stallupoenen. The
capture Of Gumbinnen required five
more days, in which desperate fighting
took place.
The Army Messenger gives this de-
scription of the capture of Gumbnnen.
which Is G5 miles east-southeast of
Koenigsberg:
THE Germans had strongly in
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er obstinately resisting our advance
to that point Their batteries in
fiicted heavy losses upon our troops
as they advanced. On three success.
sive days our soldiers made direct as
saults upon the enemys positions only
to be driven back, The fourth day was
devoted to a heavy bombardment from
our artillery. heavy guns having been
brought up
"On the fifth day. after our artil-
lery had driven the Germans from
their first line of trenches, the Cos
sacks made daring charge and rode
down the enemy's gunners. The Ger
! man batteries on the east and south
sides of Gumbinnen were all captured.
and then we occupied the town itself,
the enemy retiring toward lnsterburg
Our troops are in pursuit"
Town Partially Destroyed
Gumbinnen, which was formerly a
nourishing little town of $1,000 people.
was partially destroyed by the Russian
bombardment and many civilians are
said TO have been killed.
German Heir Menaces Warsaw.
London, Nov 24.-The Daily Tele-
graphs Petrograd correspondent init
mates that the German crown princes
army during the last five days threat
cned Warsaw, but was severely re-
pulsed, The correspondent says, how
ever, that his forces arrived alarming
ly close to Warsaw before they were
finally checked. Although greatly out
numbered the Russians succeeded in
forcing the Germans to make a rapid
retreat
Germans Take Three Cities.
Berlin, via Amsterdam, Nov. "a -
Steadily pressing forward south of the
| Weichsel tVistula) river. the German
forces in Russian Poland have cap
tured the three towns of Lowicz, Deb
ske and Re2la2loW, according TO a
semi Official dispatch received here
! from the front. These three towns