The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1914-11-26
Claim German Army in Pol
land Is In Full Retreat
Australian Reinforcements
Pressing Forward.

ure for the present of the German
drive at Warsaw along the line be-
tween the Warthe and the Vistula riv.
ers is reported today from Petrograd,
the source of the news being the
Army Messenger, the official organ of
the general staff of the Russian army.
The German offensive between
Kielce and Radon, in Poland west OF
Warsaw, has been brought to a stand,
still, and the Russians have proved
that in this territory, away from the
German railroads and Notifications of
the Silesia frontier they can fight the
invaders to a stop.
Military writer's do not hesitate to
state under the influence Of this Rus
sian report, that the Grand Duke Mich
olas and his army will have no trouble
maintaining this position, now that he
has stopped the momentum of the Ger
man drive, until the Russian armies.
one operating south of Portland, in
Galicia, and the other north of Poland,
in East Prussia, can force their way
into perfect alignment with the army
in Poland.
1t is this problem which the Rus
slams have been trying to solve ever
since mobilization, and it has been
this which General Won Hindenburg,
conceded by his enemies to be one of
the greatest military figures in the
present war, has been trying with
force and strategy to prevent.
The German attempts have been
either to drive the Russian army in
Poland back, in which case the Ga
lician and East Prussian armies would
have to retreat or run the danger of
being outflanked, or else to drive the
f1anks back, in which case the central
unit, the army in Poland, would have
to retire in the face of similar
danger. 49,
Once has Won Hindenburg driven
back the central unit, forcing retire
ment all along the Russian line, and
once has he driven back the fanks
forcing the army in Poland until it
almost touched Warsaw.
The drive which, according to Rus
sian reports, now proves to be total
failure was Won Hindenburg's second
sweep at the center, with the north
and south units of the Russian army
more than holding their own; with the
danger that in Galicia, Russians would
pass Cracow, which is strongly forti-
fed, while in East Prussia speedy Rus
sian advances seemed imminent, Won
Hindenburg strengthened his army in
Poland with all the men he could pos
sibly spare from the north and south.
And that he failed to force the Rus
slams back for enough i" taken to
mean that in spite of using all the
men and resources now at his COM
mand the Russians have pr owed them
selves superior, and that if he is to
carry on his plans successfully, he will
have to obtain more men from the
western theatre CT war. ...
The Russian report not only claims
that the German offensive has been
ended, but that the German army IN
Poland is now in retreat and has suf-
fered the loss of many thousands OF
men, several provision trains artillery
and much war material.
Along the Austrian German line
from Czenstachowa to Cracow, Petra
grad, reports that the enemy has been
repulsed with heavy losses, and his Of
fensive has been. changed into re-
treat, with heavy losses.
The Germans and Austrians are
fighting furiously to protect Cracow,
realizing the importance OF this
heavily fortified point, their last pro-
tected position on this front. The
Austro-German offensive strengthened
by heavy reinforcements, began on
Nov. 1S, ad there has been furious
fighting ever since. The Russian re-
port states:
"Repulsed on all this front with
heavy losses, the enemy endeavored
a fresh offensive movement, but again
our forces by counter attack, drove
them back, with losses as heavy ~
those which attended the first repulse.
We took large number Of prisoners" !"
The Petrograd correspondent Of the
Times sends highly significant item,
although without further details 1t is
hard to reconcile it with what has
been believed to be the situation in
Poland. He states that Russia off,
cially reports the capture of German
battery northwest of Lodz, which is
in the possession of the Germans.