The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-12-10
LODI, BURNING, IS
TAKENBYGERMANS
AFTER HARD FIGHT
Second Largest City of Poland
Captured BY Invaders After
One of Greatest Battles
of the War.
LITTLE CHANGE in WEST
Ostend Reported Burning, But
Details Are Lacking-Ru-
mored Austria Is Seek
ing Peace Terms.
LITTLE CHANGE IN WEST
THE WAR IN TABLOID.

1 MI t-FNi tBtSS So
captured LODI; still hold Cracow;
still hold Russians in check in Prus-
STA. Lines fall back at some points
in Flanders and France; commune
cations menaced in Alsace.
RusslA-Russian armies rallyins for
defense of Warsaw gains second
attack by Germans; investing Cra-
COW; still hammerins Austrians back
toward ~carpathians; engaging Turks
ANGLo-FRENcH-Have assume of
fensive all along line in France and
Belgium; gains reported at some
points; pressing close to German city
of Metz; renew shellins of enemy's
lines.
London, Dec. S.-A comparison of the
reports from Berlin and Petrograd
leads to the conclusion that the Ger
mans again occupy Lodz from which
city they were driven on their retreat
from Warsaw. Berlin makes positive
announcement that Loza is IN their
hands, while Petrograd admits that the
situation there is desperate.
If the fall of the city is a fact, 1T in
dicates hat communication with War
saw again is seriously menaced, but
a semi-official statement from Petro-
grad declares the Russians are strong
enough to hold the invaders in north
ern Poland and will content themselves
with doing this, while devoting their
main energies to the reduction of era
COW and the invasion of Hungary.
Lodz is the chief manufacturing CEN
ter of Russian Poland. 1t has numer-
Gus textile mills, the majority of them
for the manufacture of cotton goods.
In addition, it has flour mills, dyelns
establishments brick yards, machinery
plants and breweries. The population
is made up of Poles, Germans and
Jews.
The P%etrograd Novo Vremya's cor
respondent at the front in a dispatch
to 6ic ma q I rf IL M N r6 n oil I 7
to o He says:
1.-THE Smelling of LODI began a week
g and grew heavier and heavier UNI
3 til the shells We're landing in the town
at five minute intervals. setting many
fires.
City In Flames.
From the battlefield, the town APP
peared enveloped in flames. on We'd
: nesday the Germans attempted to storm
the city, but We're driven back by the
Russians.
"The town is in a pitable state. The
, factories are closed. There has been no
! communication with the outside world,
= the past two months"
Delayed dispatches to the Daily Tele-
graph from P~etrograd indicate that the
situation at Lodz Friday. the day the
dispatches were filed, was then serious.
For the past three days" says one
| Of these dispatches, "the III
Russian Poland around Lodz have been
strenously aggressive. Their wedge
which already has been driven into
Russian Poland, is being pushed with
tremendous reinforcements the base
( of this wedge is Thorn and kaaliz. The
appex is Lowicz. This gives the Ger
mans control of all the railways in this
triangle-they are using the railways
to pour in an increasing stream OF
horses, troops and engines of war.
Battle In Cemetery.
The heaviest fighting was for the
pncrnrcinI1 Of n Tnvyic1 ca,11nJnrJ or
! the outskirts of LODI
I The position changed hands twice. AS
\ the result of many attacks and counter
l attacks. the German and Russian
troops exhausted their ammunition but
continued fighting with bayonets ant
rifle butts.
Thirty citizens were killed and 2Ot
wounded. In Lodz so houses and {
Catholic church were demolished
The battle front extends for some A.
or so miles and probably close to 500,
600 men are taking part in the des
perate encounters which at some place:
is at the point of the bayonet.
The Siberian troops are showing
t~ireless aggression, charging batterie!
n and moving swiftly upon to hand t.
a hand fighting. Villages have been burne,
. and the countryside is reported to b.
: strewn with the bodies of the dead an
e wounded. On both sides the losse!
l. have been great.
n The new line which the Germans arr
n forming, after their attempt agalnS
the Russian center, stretches from
h Kutno on the north to Cracow On thu
8 south. Here another series of opera
: tons is impending.
It Long Objective Point.
e THE enemy's plan around Lodz IN
e wolves the cutting of some of Warsaw
lines of communication-the German
n plan to hold this wedge all winter, in
4, augurating an elaborate trench war
/ fare system like that on the ives
.r 'front.'
.e LODI has been an objective point o
: the Germans. 1t has grown in recen
years from an insignificant place to b
one of the most %populous cities in tn
Russian empire. In 1910 it's population
g numbered 5.6O4, and with this i'm
= portant place as a base, it is eXpecte
: that the Germans will make a stron
:, effort to reach the Polish capital c
- Warsaw.
Austria Seeking Peace?
Hungary, according to reports froI
IL the Russian capital is the weak poir
d in the armor of the Teuton allie
j. These messages from Petrograd sa
a that even as early as at the time {
: the fall OF Lemberg. Austria aske
Russia for terms of peace. The negc
t~iations to this end, If any really too
G AlISRhM0 PAMNc TJlREEY.