Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-11-08
RUSSIANS |NFL|CT
HUGE CASUALTIES
UPON FOE, IS CLAIM
Austro-German losses Said to
Be 30. 900. With 1874 More
Made Prisoners.
CZAR'S ARMIES FIRED
BY GENERAL SUCCESS
viciously Assault Teuton Position to
Rid Russian Poland of
Enemy.
ADVANCES IN EAST PRUSSIA
Progress Made in Region OF Romin-
ten and Lyck, Says Petrograd.
Berlin Claims Defeat of Three
Slav Cavalry Divisions.

LONDON. November l.
Fired by general success, the
falling back of the German forces
in East Prussia and the hasty re-
treat of the Austrians, Russia's
great armies i'll the eastern thea
ter of war are pressing their ad-
vantage. One section of Emperor
Nicholas troops is now directing
vicious assault against the Ger
man position at Sieradz on the
Warthe river, with the purpose of
ridding Russian soil of the hated
foe. The Germans are heavily in
trenehed and dispatches indicate
they are ready to fight like mad
men in order to partially retrieve
recent reverses. A battle of in
tense fury seems assured.
Austrian forces, which were the
last to begin the backward move
ment in the recent fighting, are
now declared to be cut off from
the Germans. Their situation is
desperate. Both Germans and
Austrians are said to have suf-
iered immense losses. Their casu-
alties are estimated at 10000,
while late reports from Petregrad
declare that in the vicinity of
Cracow 274 officers and 1850
prisoners have been taken.
Russian Staff Statement.
The Russian general STAFF has issued
the following:
''On the East Prussian front the
Russian troops are developing with
success an offensive in the region Of
the forest of Rominten and Lyck
tEast Prussia).
The German rear guard was dis
lodged by US from Mlawa November
I. suffering great losses.
Beyond the Vistula the enemy
continues to fall back. A German
column passed through Czensto-
chowa, Russian Poland, moving
west.
Minor engagements have occur
red near Warta, and on the road
from Andrejew to Mechow near
MerZava.
I'm GaIicia the Austrians in their
retreat left behind them many SOL
diers i'll with cholera at Jeroslau,
Przevorsk and villages on the San"
parl;r poporte Srccoes
Some success in the operations
against the Russians is claimed in q
communication given out at German
army headquarters in Berlin this after
noon.
In the eastern arena of the war
three divisions of Russian cavalry
wv 'ch crossed the River Warthe
above Kolo were defeated and push
ed back across the stream There
have not been any encounters else
where"
Russian forces are attacking the Ger.
man position at Sieradz on the Warta
Kalisz and about fifteen miles east o1
the German border, according to In
formation reaching Petrograd.
This engagement marks the begin
ring Of the Russian advance against
the last fortified German positions or
Russian soil. The Germans are heavil.
entrenched at Sieradz, and appeared
determined to dispute the crossing o.
the River Warthe.
Take 1874 Prisoners.
The left wing of the Russian army
in engagements taking place between
October % and November on tn,
front in the vicinity of Cracow, tool
prisoner PA officers and 1s.5OO men o
the enemy. This informa tion was piver
out in Petrograd today
In addition to these prisoners the
Russian forces captured three bowit-
GERS, forty pieces of artillery. thirty
eight rapid-fire guns and a large quan
tity of material for the manufacture
OF cartridges
otiicial communications received in
Rome from the Russian army head
quarters state that the Austro-G German
reverses in Galicia and Russian Polanc
are being augmented daily by the
Fugitive troops communicating PAM,
to their reserves.
In Pitifu1 Condition.
The Austro-German cavalry force.
arc depicted rs being in an especial,
pitiful condition. A part of this force
it is said, was massacred by the out.
numbering Cossacks; the remainder
being routed and pursued in the utmos
confusion.
Austria and Germany had centeref