New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-23
Kaiser's Best Troops
Driven Back from
Warsaw.
IN FULL FLIGHT
BEFORE RUSSIANS
Germans Evacuate Strong
Positions and Aban-
don Wounded.
SIBERIAN REGIMENTS
PROVE THEIR VALOR
With Soldiers from Caucasus
Region They Do Capital
Work in Battle.
IBv Cable 10 The Tribune

IBy Cable 10 The Trlbunc.I
Petrograd, Oct. 22.-The Russians
have won great victory over the
German main forces, which are in full
retreat. The force now beaten is
Germany's best army against Russia.
1t was operating toward Warsaw be-
tween the Rzura and tho Pilitzs, con-
fuents of the Vistula.
South of the Pilitza River the Ger
man forces are still holding their po-
sitions, but this is merely u matter
of time, since the Russians are now
on the flank and partly in the rear of
the & srman armies.
IN tneir retreat before the Russians
the Germans abandoned their wounded
and evacuated strongly intrenched
position, where they were expected
certainly TO make a stand.
The Grand Duke Nicholas does not
apply the word victory" to his splen-
did success against the German main
armies. Civilians, however, will not
hesitate TO term the German defeat
rOut.
Got Near TO Warsaw.
The Germans approached within iif-
teen miles Of Warsaw, and their shells
reached parts of the outlying suburbs.
The hardest fighting was with the
forces astridc of the railway from
Skernievice, within q few miles of
Warsaw. The Germans apparently
made their last stand here, between
the villages Of Bloni and Pasechno, the
former sixteen miles west and the
latter twelve miles south of Warsaw.
The 18th and 18th German Army
Corps made desperate efforts to attack
here, but the Russians continued their
advance, sending cavalry around the
German left rear and infantry to the
left flank from the fortress Of Novo-
georgievsk, while other forces, which
had crossed the Vistula eighteen miles
south OF Warsaw, Increasingly threat
ened their right. The Russians COM
PEELED the Germans to retreat and
quickly turned the retreat into rout.
When the main object of the strate-
pic plan-namely, TO crush the German
active army forces, while leaving the
second rate troops of reserves and Aus
trians to be dealt with lster-had been
thus achieved, the Russians moved for
ward alone the whole line, some 26O
miles in length, from the Carpathisns
to the Vistula, and are still advancing.
Austrians Driven from the San.
This advance quickly drove the Aus
trian forces from the San River. Here
and south of Przemysl the Russians
have only to deal with Austrian corps
whom they already have beaten during
the Galician battles. The broken rem
nants of these conquered forces have
been pulled together into some sort Of
formation and put under German COM
mand, but their fighting value has not
in any way been increased by this last
unpalatable measure.
OF the details of the fighting 1t Is
not expected that much will be heard
until the entire operation is COM
pleted.
The Russian cavalry are pressing
hard upon the German retreat, which is
over abominable sloughs of roads
fringed by bog land and marshy forest.
Prisoners and trophies of success are
being taken all the time, but as yet
no attempt has been made to estimate
their number.
The German army was broken only
Yesterday. Warsaw fortnight ago was
getting seriously apprehensive of Its
future fate. German agents were insldi-
ouslv poisoning the popular mind with
plausible suggestions about Russian in
difference to the fate of the Polish
espital. circulating among other false
hoods n circular prepared by Germanic
headquarters stating that as Poles were
valiantly fighting in their ranks against
Russia the Russian commander in chief
had resolved to withdraw his promise
Of promoting Polish unity as cOnse-
ouence of this war.
Siberians DO Good Work.
Among the troops rushed through
Warsaw to the front were some of the
Siberian corps, wto were seen for the
first time by the inhabitants OF the
Polish capital. Their head .ress is dis
tinctive and the men carry themselves
with the air of born warriors, since
they come from the confines of the en-
pire where soldiers are often engaged
in actual warlike operations.
The Siberisns swept like whirlwind