The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-12-10
LODI, BURNING, IS
TAKENBYGERMANS
AT TER 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.
THE WAR IN TABLOID.

THE WAR IN TABLOID.
GERMANY-Arnnies IN Poland have
captured LODI; still hold Craoow;
still hold Russians in check in Prus-
STA. Lines fall back at some points
in Flanders and France; eommuni-
cations nenaeed in Alsaee.
RuSSlA-Russian armies rallying for
defense Of Warsaw against second
attack by Germans; investing era =
cow; still hammering Austrians back
toward carpathians; engaging Turks
ANGLO FRENcH-Have assumed Of.
fensive all along line in France and
Belgium; gains reported at some
points; pressing close to German city
OF Metz; renew Smelling 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.
II the fall of the city is a fact, 1t in
| dicates that 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 Cra-
COW and the invasion of Hungary.
LodZ is the chief manufacturing GEN.
ter of Russian Poland. 1t has numer-
Gus textile mills, the majority of them
for the manufacture of cotton goods.
In addition, IL has flour mills dyeing
q r6S ma
plants and breweries. The population
| is made UP of Poles. Germans and
Jews.
The Petrograd Novo Vremya's cor
| respondent at the front in a dispatch
| to his paper tells of the bombardment
| to LodZ. He says:
THE Smelling of LODI began a week
| ago and grew heavier and heavier un-
| til the shells were landing in the town
! at five minute intervals, setting many
| fires.
City In Flames.
From the battlefield, the town ap-
peared enveloped in flames. On We'd
| nesday the Germans attempted to storm
| the city. but were 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 Petrograd indicate that the
situation at Lodz Friday, the day the
| dispatches were fled was then serious.
For the past three days" says one
| of these dispatches, the Germans in
Russian Poland around LodZ have been
| strenously aggressive. Their wedge
| which already has been driven into
| Russian Poland, is being pushed with
| tremendous achievements - the base
of this wedge is Thorn and Kaaliz. The
| Apex 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
| possession of a Jewish cemetery on
| the outskirts of LodZ.
The position changed hands twice. AS
| the result of many attacks and counter
| attacks, the German and Russian
| troops exhausted their ammunition but
| continued fighting with bayonets and
| rifle butts.
Thirty citizens were killed and 200
wounded. In Lodz so houses and a
| Catholic church were demolished.
The battle front extends for some 40
| or so miles and probably close to $780,
900 men are taking part in the des-
| perate encounters which at some places
| Is dL Tic point OIL the DdyOHeI.
The Siberian troops are showing
| tireless aggression, charging batteries
| and moving swiftly upon to hand to
hand fighting. Villages have been burned
| and the countryside is reported to he
strewn with the bodies of the dead and
| wounded. On both sides the losses
have been great.
The new line which the Germans are
forming, after their attempt against
! the Russian center, stretches from
Kutno on the north to Cracow on the
south. Here another series OF opera
| tions is impending.
Long OBJ ective Point.
THE enemy's plan around Lodz in
wolves the cutting Of some of Warsaw's
| lines of commandments Germans
| plan to hold this wedge all winter, in
augurating an elaborate trench war
| fare system like that on the west
| front"
LODI has been an objective point Of
| the Germans. 1t has grown in recent
| years from an insignificant place to be
one of the most populous cities in the
| Russian empire. In 1910 it's population
| numbered 415,604. and with this i'm
| portant place as q base. 1t is expected
| that the Germans will make strong
| effort to reach the Polish capital OF
| Warsaw.
Austria Seeking Peaee7
Hungary, according to reports from
| the Russian capital is the weak point
| in the armor of the Teuton allies
| These messages from Petrograd say
| that even as early as at the time OF
| the fall Of Lemberg, Austria asked
Russia for terms of peace. The ne go
tiations to this end, II any really took
HIS \ PAWMS Turkey.