Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-12-04
RUSSIANS TAKE
4o,OoOPRISONERS
Another Column Of Germans
Are H;mnsd In.
INVADERS IN FINAL EFFORT
Won Hinden5urg Orders General Fran
co.'s TO Smash Through Cars Line
Near H!aWa.

Near MldWa.
Official military intelligence III
London, sill declines TO recognize as
victory tie remarkable successes
"a Poland, but from q dozen dlIerent
suurccs it is satisfactorily clear to the
..eAeral pubic.
thursday evenings bulletin merely
referred to the battle OF Lodz as COIL
unuing," but it can be said tnat PEE
vious dispatches about the eXpecta'
,lyns CT al overwhelming success
we're thoroughly we'll grounded.
The German retreat is being press
cd from all sides by Russian troops
and the Germans are putting tortn
,ne utmost efforts to break through
uorthwards. In this district, also, cir
,i;mstances favorable to The Russians
are developing.
A large part OF the troops when
broke through the Russian defense
cast of Lodz are now bands OF wan
ucring stragglers ir inc rear OF the
L
cred in as prisoners.
Milistary circles are expected soon
to announce victory not merely over
the Germans on the Vistula-Warta
'front.', of which the public already IS
convinced, but also on the Czensto'
rnowa-Cracow front, where Thurs
lays bulletin said: Our troops mani
.ustly have the upper hand"
The russians also are now pouring
through the easy passes Of the Car
a:lian range at Dukla, the we'll trod-
Ten highway of conquest known to
lie Russian forces for at least half a
century past.
The wide convenient pass at Duhla
has no lever than five highroals con-
verging, and its capture is tanta-
..iOunt to a full command of the plains
I'll Hungary up to Budapest, $50 miles
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
tie capture of entire stores accumu-
lated in Austria for the campaign
against Russia.
THE German army, which has been
crushed and dispersed from the re-
:sion Of Lodz," says the Petrograd cor
respondent of the Daily News, "is
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 Flock.
General Won Hindenburg has or-
Lered 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 have been sent
from Thorn, but the Russians 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
fetters the Austro-German army on
the Czenstochowa-Cracow front, in
Gicting heavy blows and capturing
guns and prisoners. Apparently an
other group of Russians is holding at
WicIuna a German column which IS
cndeavoring to go to the rescue Of the
Plock group.
"The main Russian force is exclu-
sively engaged against the Plock
group, whose front is cut in halves.
It's right half is surrounded on all
sides and is vainly struggling as in an
iron wise and striving. to break
through to the LETT wing at Lowicz,
which in turn is battering unsuccess-
fully"
The Paris Matin says:
"One German army corps, which
was surrounded by Russian troop :,
surrendered in body. This repre-.
sents nearly 10000 prisoners. Another
corps, which also had been cut of,
has now been completely put to rou..
The Russians are attacking aloa g
the Czcnstocrowa-Cracow line with re-
y i,+a