The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-11-28
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

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London, Nov. 27.-The Petrograd
correspondents today continued to
claim that the Russians won q great
victory over the Germans In Poland,
but official confirmation is still lack
ing.
Although the Russian headquarters
say the advantage La with their troops,
Berlin declares the battle Is not de-
cisivs. Some German newspapers
claim success for their troops.
The silence of Grand Duke Nicholas,
the Russian commander, as to the
progress OF the battle in Poland is
causing unfavorabBe comment in Rus
sia- Petrograd advices say there is
feeling that the newspaper claims OF
a Russian success may have been eX-
aggerated.
In all western war zone comparative
quiet prevails. No reports of heavy
fighting have been recorded for several
days. intermittent artillery dueis and
small infantry encounters continue,
| however.
Snow is interfering with the fight
| ing in Servia, and the Austrtans are
making a supreme effort 70 rid them
| selves of bitter difficulties.
| The Roumanian parliament meets
| tomorrow and the future course of
| that kingdom probably will be decided.
1t is said that Roumania was prepared
to cede Bulgaria, some territory she
obtained at the expense of Bulgaria
after the second Balkan war. This
may mean that Bulgaria Is about to
join the allies. provided she is per
mitted to straighten out her boun-
daries and take more of the country
| inhabitated by her nationals.
1t is announced that Australia was
raised a second contingent of nineteen
thousand men. The first was twenty
one thousand.
AWAIT ALL DETAILS.
While the belief grows hourly that
the Russians in Northern Poland have
| won the greatest battle of the war,
actual details of the operations in this
locality still are withheld, and the
whole incident is beginning to take on
the aspects OF a mystery.
From Petrograd comes a report that
the patience of the Russian people
awaiting official confirmation Of the
reported victory, is approaching the
breaking point, and the same thing
may be said Of the public here. Ger
man reports, without entering into
any such details as dates, describe sue
cessful operations in the region of this
great battle, but admit that the Ger
man army has not succeeded in bring
ing the struggle to a close. It is evil
dent that the comparative failure of
the Austro-G German operations along
the Czenstochowa front gave the Rus
slams opportunity to envol General Won
Hindenburg after this brilliant Ger
man leader had thrown wedge into
his antagonists center. The Russians
to the south, safe on their own front
were able to strike northward, thus
breaking the enemy who had passed
east beyond their right flank.
Military critics at Petrograd profess
to loe astonished at the German assault
on I1odz. maintaining that such
movement made the defeat OF the in
vaders inevitable. The critics declare
that unless the German advance to-
ward Kutno and Lodz was part or a
larger movement, the operation was
too hazardous to be credible. A third
German army in the vicinity OF Wei
UNI has initiated an advance Whsch Is
believed in London to have been start
ed too late to be Of any use.
On the other battle fronts quiet pre-
walls. Along the Franco Belgian line
the opposing armies seem content TO
face each other, and nothing mas
transpired to indicate that the Ger
mans have started the expected re-
sumption Of their effort TO break
| through the allied lines on their way
/ to the coast
Thirty miles to the east Of the Sues
canal British forces in touch Win
Turkish invaders but there is no sign
Of a general action in this vicinity ana
it is expected that the invasion OF
Egypt probably viii be postponed for
the reason that the Turks would ap-
pear to be hard pressed In Armenia
| and around the Persian gulf.
Additional details concerning the