Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-12-07
Cars Asiatic Warriors Attack En-
trenched Enemy from Two
Sides with Steel. ~
POSITIONS ARE QUICKLY TAKEN
Fresh Soldiers Now Holding re-
Formed Line for Kaiser.
CITY OF LODI Is BoMBARDED
suburb Harmed and Three OutIying
Villages Partly Destroyed by
Fire from the Exploding =.
shelIs 4
Shells.

PETROGRAD (via London), Dec.
6.-The center of the field OF opera
tions in the eastern arena OF the war
has moved to the south of Lodz, in
Russian Poland. The German effort
centers at szczerczow, twenty miles
west Of Piotrkow, with that town the
objective. Heavy fighting is reported
also along line from Glowno, six
teen miles northeast of Lodz, to the
Vistula river.
The strength Of the German forces op-
posing the Russian left wing is estimated
at five corps. each corps occupying a
front from eight to ten miles in extent.
Fresh Troops Hold Line.
There are Indications that owing to the
exhaustion OF the troops composing the
German center most OF those regiments
which lost a large percentage of their
fighting strength have been withdrawn
or are resting on their arms. and that
fresher troops are holding the line during
a temporary cessation in the battle
News dispatches from the front at
tribute the Russian success in crushing
the German forces near Lodz chiefly to
tho miraculous endurance and tireiess
] aggression OF tho Siberian troops
The entire wooded region from Brzeziny
to Kurpin is described in these dispatches
as a German graveyard. Here an un-
= supported Siberian battalion Is reported
to have charged a battery of heavy Ger
man artillery and to have bayonetted the
gunners.
The dead and wounded in this district
are reported to be so thick that the Rus
sian hospital corps. after working three
days, had not cleared the field Most Of
the Germans treated showed bayonet
wounds. The fire-blacked ruins of the
village of Kurpin. dispatches from the
I front say are packed with charred bodies
OF Germans who took refuge from ST.
berian bayonets 70 fall under the fire of
a Russian battery.
Charge OF siberians.
Dispatches from Poland say that the
l German disaster attending the march TO
reach the main German force from an
| isolated center began with a charge Of
tho slberians at Rzgow, a town six miles
south Of Lodz
The sfberians after long march
entered prepared trenches and immedi-
ately asked permission to attack Rzgow
where the Germans were entrenched in
a slight rise OF the ground The siberians
deployed and attacked the German posi-
tion from two sides. The unexpectedness
OF the Russian assault surprised the
Germans and the first trenches were
quickly taken though the Germans soon
recaptured them. In the next few hours
these trenches were taken and retaken
three times.
Retreat NOrthward.
On being dislodged finally at Rzgow,
the Germans retreated northward being
pounded by the Russians until the main
body OF Germans was reached.
A rough cross surmounted by a peaked
helmet and another cross on which rests
a Siberian cap, bloodstainei and bullet
holed, now marks the field where thou
sand OF dead lie side by side.
In the shelling of Lodz the gas house
was damaged, The suburb OF Baluti was
burned and three other villages were
partly destroyed by fire cause by explod-
ing shells
Thirty citizens were killed and 200
wounded In Lodz fifty houses and a
Catholic church were demolished.