Milford chronicle., 1914-12-04
IeutOn Troops Cut Through
Gordon Of Russians.
EAPERORS At THE FRONT
The Gar and Kaiser Take the Field
With Their Armies on Eastern Bat
tie Ground.

The battle in northern Poland, con.
oerning the progress Of which there
has been much mystery, is now being
| fought out under the eyes of the Ger.
man emperor, on the one side, and
the Russian emperor on the other.
These two monarchs left for the
| front, so that virtually the heads of all
the nations at war are with the troops
at present, as the king OF England is
in France; the king Of Belgium, as
usual, is spending all his time with
his soldiers, while President Poin.
care, of France, started for another
visit to the northern battlefield.
Official news from Poland continues
to be scanty. and with both head
quarters claiming success, it is i'm.
possible to say how the battle is go
ing. OF its intensity. however. there
can be no doubt.
The Germans, when they started
IT Warsaw, dashed full tilt into a
mass of Russian troops and forced
their way so far in that the Russians
closed on them. This was taken inI
Petrograd to mean that some of the
German divisions had been cut off and
that their surrender or annihilation
was inevitable.
1t appears, however, that, lighting
for their very lives and in the knowl
edge that a great defeat would end
the German offensive and compel them
to fall back on their own frontiers,
the German troops succeeded inl
breaking through the Russian lines
near LODI, and at another in holding
their entertainments against all this
Russian attacks. Their flanks are still
being harrassed by the Cossacks, but
seemingly the Russians are not now
in position to gain the sweeping
victory they had anticipated.
The losses with the desperate fight |
ing that has been going on for fort |
night must necessarily be very heavy
on both sides.
Against the Austro-German forces |
in the south the Russians continue tO
gain more decisive results. They ara
now in possession of all the Austrian |
positions protecting the Carpathian
passes and are said to have arrived |
abreast of Cracow. while their cap
lures for three weeks number $4,000 (
men. a
Another wireless report from Ber
lin saws that the latest reports from
Russian Poland given out in the kais
er's capital indicate that the Germans
have resumed the execution of their
plan to encompass the Russian right
flank and to force it back on the cen.
ter, at the same time cutting off the
Russians communication with War
saw.
The carrying out Of this plan, which
began with a Russian defeat at Lipno
and at Plock. was later hindered by
the arrival of Russian reinforcementsl
and the Germans for a moment were
thrown on their defensive. Now, after
repulsing a number Of attacks, the
Germans appear to be moving for
ward in the direction of Lowicz.
A dispatch from Petrograd says:
"The issue of the battle around
Lodz is still doubtful. It will go down
10 history as one OF the most fercely !
contested, most strategically brilliant ,
encounters ever fught. Military writ
ers say that, while only German army
would have walked into such trap.
assuming that the Russians
we're afraid of them, It is equally true ,
hat only a German army could have
escaped. The way they hurled them A.,
selves against the walls of the eRus' ,
slams, when they discovered that they I
we're surrounded, was remarkable.
They often had to climb over s
leaps Of their own comrades and |
.ush onto Russian bayonets or cross a
zone of artillery fire. where bursting
ihrapnel took a terrible toll Of life" /
The condition of German prisoners (
captured in the region of Lodz is said {
o resemble that of the French troops {
Turing Napoleon's retreat from Mos
.ow. Many Of them have frozen hands
md feet They we're wrapped in blan' {
yets and shawls from the peasants. &
)ne private wore a wOman's fur wrap. :
The following are the official bulle' ;
ins: