Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-31
MAY DE LAST TIME AUSTRIANs
ARE ABLE TO IIIDOISD

Especial Gable to The. Times -Dispotch I
fEIRoGRAD, December SO.-San-
guine people believe that this is tho
last time the Austrian army will he
able to rebound. as it has already used
up all the material for recupera ton
that 1t possessed.
Slav prisoners from the Dunk,o
neighborhood say that before they de-
bouched from the Carpathians they
were told by their officers their advance
was the decisive and final act which
would bring the war to an end. The
.esuits, lhey were assured, would be
the capture OF Warsaw and Lemberg.
ana when these two towns We're once
IN their hands peace would be made.
When they were compelled once more
70 turn their faces 20 the. Carpathians
and cracow, great depression took
hold OF the army This. no doubt ac-
counts for tho larger number of sur
renders now which every day are re-
ported from Galacia.
On the RZura and the Rawka the sit
uation is still far from clear. Evident
ly IL is too early to speak of Ger
man retreat from these rivers, although
1t is obvious that the impact of the
ehcmys attack has become much
weaker.
The opinion in military circles seems
to be that the profuse employment of
large sized shells on the Rawkn ;s in
tended to cloak n transverse movement
oil German trooks which will have n
squel in a further furious ONSLAUGHT
at some other point
The Germans seem already to have
transferred the bulk of their infon-
try from the Bzura to the Rawka
According to statement In the
SWEET the process of attrition is vast
ing away the energy of the enemy
very rapidly The Germans and the
Austrians together have lost 100000
men since November 0. 1t is csti
mated that the force with which Tho
russians had to deal numbered 2.50O
600, OF whom 100000 were Germans
SOME GERMAN COMPANIES
REDUCED 'F0 THIRTY MEN
The Germans are believed to have
suffered most heavily in the battle Mt
Strykof and on the Bzura. Some OF
their companies have been reduced TO
thirty men.
IT is supposed that or the Pilica and
the Bzura the Germans had twenty
corps engaged. Their losses here have
been between 10000 and 200, 900. Their
attacks on the rivers were so reckless
and abandoned that they lost more
nemviiy than on any other front of
equal length since the war began
Only In their repulse from IVAN
gorod did the proportion Of the cas-
ualties rise anything like so high as
In the recent desperate fighting to the
west and southwest of Warsaw
Refugees who reached Warsaw from
Lodz state that after the Germans en-
tered the town the population was
seized with. panic. Thousands at
tempted to leave. but the enemy had
troops on all sides and no one was
allowed to pass. Now no permits TO
leave Lodz are issued
AT the instance of the Spanish en-
bassy at Petrograd the Russian Red
Cross Society has instituated n search
for the German chancellor's eldest son.
who, according to Berlin statements.
was wounded and taken prisoner In
East Prussia. a comprehensive in
curry mas shown that he was among
neither the wounded nor unwounded
prisoners captured by Russia, and Il is
supposed that he must either have
been killed outright or died of his
wounds on the battlefield and was
buried in common grave with the
others who were slain