The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1914-11-28
RUSSIANS TAKE
40,000p PRISONERS
Another Column Of Germans
Are H;amad In
INVADERS IN FINAL EFFORT.
Won Hindenburg Orders General Fran
co.'s to Smash Through Cars Line
Near MIaWa.

London, Nov. 2S.-Official military
intelligence still declines to recognize
Is q victory the remarkable successes
In Poland, but from a dozen different
sources it is satisfactorily clear to the
general pubic.
Thursday evenings bulletin merely
referred to the battle OF Lodz as con
tinuing," but it can be said that pre-
vious dispatches about the expecta'
tons of an overwhelming success
were thoroughly well grounded.
The German retreat is being press
ed from all sides by Russian troops
and the Germans are putting forth
the utmost efforts to break through
northwards. In this district, also, cir
cumstances favorable to the Russians
are developing.
A large part of the troops which
broke through the Russian defense
east of Lodz are now bands OF wan
dering stragglers in the rear OF the
Russian positions and are being gath
cred in as prisoners.
Milistary circles are expected soon
to announce a victory not merely over
the Germans on the Vistula-Warta
front. OF which the public already Is
convinced, but also on the Czensto
chowa-Cracow front, where Thurs
days bulletin said: Our troops mani
testify have the upper hand"
Toe Russians also are now pouring
through the easy passes OF the Car
pathian range at Dukla, the well trod'
den highway of conquest known to
the Russian forces for at least half q
century past
The wide convenient pass at Dukla
has no fewer than five highroads con.
verging, and its capture Is tantar
mount to a full command of the plains
Of Hungary up to Budapest, $50 mics
away on the road to Vienna.
The field hospital supplies OF the
Russians. about which there was
some anxiety at the beginning of the
war, owing to the sudden stoppage OF
imports, were never short, thanks to
the capture of entire stores accumu-
lated In Austria for the campaign
against Russia
1.-THE German army. which has been
crushed and dispersed from the re-
gion of Lodz," says the Petrograd cor
respondent of the Daily News, lis
General MacKensen's command. A
part of this army is now Fastening
back due north in the hope of being
able to cross the Vistula in the region
of Plock.
General Won Hindenburg has or
dered the army of General Francois.
which was engaged for some weeks in
the misunderstanding country, to re-
double its efforts to break through
the Russian line westward of Mlawa.
More reinforcements haveebeen sent
from Thorn, but the Russiahs still
keep their grip on the railway inside
the East Prussian frontier"
The Petrograd correspondent of the
Times sums up the present situation
In Russian Poland as follows:
Zone group of the Russian forces
letters the Austro-German army on
the Czenstochowa-Cracow front, In
hicting heavy blows and capturing
guns and prisoners. Apparently an
other group of Russians is holding at
Wieluna a German column which Ia
endeavoring to go to the rescue of the
Plock group.
'The main Russian force Is exclu-
sively engaged against the Flock
group, whose front is cut In halves.
Its right half Is surrounded on all
sides and is vainly struggling as In an
iron wise and striving to break
through to the left wing at Lowicz,
which in turn is battering unsuccess-
fully"
The Paris Matin says:
zone German army corps, which
was surrounded by Russian troops,
surrendered in body. This repre-
sents nearly 10000 prisoners. Another
corps. which also had been cut Of,
has now been completely put to rout.
"The Russians are attacking along
the Czenstocrowa- Cracow line with re-
doubled intensity"