The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-08
MICH or LODI IN RUINS.
Germans Destroy Large Fart Oh
Polish Town.

Special cdJie Despdich 10 THE stN
! I,oNpoS. Dec. Latte dispatches from
| Petrograd say that the Russians sui ho'u
LODI and that the situation III the resioi /
OF the city IL auieter Correspondents vi ,
| I,ndon neyspapers make the statement
nositively and give details OF the Russian
administration OF the city and OF meas
ures taken to feed the population ~ Is
also reported that the Russians nave hau
the better of the fighting around Lou III
| the past two days. have taken many oe'
man prisoners and have driven the uet
| mans from Zgierz, seven miles horth Oh
| LODI. 49,, -,
The news is directly in conflict with the
Gernan official report, which states that
the Germans occupied LODI on sunday
/ But the dispatches OF CORES pondehts
raise "A doubt as to whether or not the9
have been able to maintain occupation
II is not Impossible, from the latest news
! that they have been driven out.
| The Russians are certainly holding tne
junction point OF Koluszki, and until the
Germans are able to occupy Koluszki they
cannot take advantage of the railroad sys-
tenn. There is no longer any misapprehen-
sion In Petrograd AZ TO the seriousness OF
the situation IN Poland but army oinclaIs
assert that the Russians have anticipated
the German plans ana are ueNe'oP"'e
further surprise.
A despatch received from The Hague
to-day SAYS that Russian stan oihcer
in that city maze the statement that the
RUSSIANS have left "A sufficient force N
the centre OF Poland TO oppose a rene"''
of the German offensive, and that me
Russians will concentrate their main
f. rces for an entrance into Germany on
the line of CracoN. Oppeln and Brrslau
The statf officer says there Is Official
authority for the news that Russian
force is bombarding Crac'w and lis
suburbs from the southeast. The latest
official report issudN IN Petrograd WAS
DELAYED in Transmission ana REFERS APP
parently to the situation existing before
the Germans entered lSoGL Inc s'at'"e"t
was as follows:
, There was no special change in the
. situation Yesterday. Fighting CON
tinued and German attacks were re-
pulsed.
\, the war once IN Petrograd 1t is
privately admitted that the Russians are
on the defensive on account OF heavy
recnforcements that have reached the Ter
mans from Sues,a aud from western
! I.ur,pe. hut the officials say that tho
offensive operations viii oe only tenn
porary and that the Russians Will soon
I be I'm a position TO renew the atAcB'
= The correspl ndent Of the Bomse Gd>eftc
! sends tho following despatch from near
l the battlefront:
LODI has been almost ruined by the
" ARTILLERY fire that has Played upon II tor
a four days and nights. Many houses nave
r been G mplctcly destroyed ana the o''u.
i pants killed. FIRE has broken out az
T. numerous points. Hundreds o! cN'"""s
have been Killed.
'rba arst shells fred into tho cit>
destroyed the gas works. the SaS caught
IRE. and since that time the hames lr'Hn
=. the burning tanks have been the only
y llght in the city Tho inhabitants VINO re-
imain ar, In dire want
- The corrrsp oudeut of tho Noros |reNnd
/ supplies the following description;
=. ION Wednesday, the Germans at
l-cn,rt.d To drive ont the Russian de-
q Tenders by storm and q desperate hayyn"'
rgit ranged all along the line The Ger
" mans we're driven on but they had
n tonight with such fury that tho issue was
for some time in doubt I.odH mas
cu, off from the outside world for t"o
months The city Is bastes by shell hre
and flames and there is practically no
food left
Although LODI. az westcrnm'~t
nnint of the Russian position. pro-
tected into the German lines for
:, considerable distance. 1t escaped
- bombardment until November 80. bnt
y thereafter until December 8, when
~ tho Germans occupied the city, the
=" most thriving industrial city Of Po-
land WAS at the mercy Of German
cannon.
LODI Is described As Polish Man.
chester. manuflcturing cottons.
woolleuS and mixed stunts, with
chemicals beer, machinery and salt.
Chiefly owing to a considerable im-
migration Of German capitalists and
10 workers the city has grown from
-, l56OU0 In 1900 to a population cs-
=. timated AZ 100000, The population
percentage IL about as follows: Ger
70 mans. 40 per cent Poles, 81 per
n cent Jews, % per cent.
IS The German attempts TO break through
the Russian Lines north OF Ludz resulted
,e in appalling losses ny both sides "A
N Zgerl, small manufacturing town nv
m miles t. the north There machine gun
"a were mounted in the befries Of churche
X and upon the roofs OF houses
The streets were choked from curb I,
curb with dead and wounded and heap
: of the dead were used for brcastworks
The city took fire and the soldiers wer
driven from their positions in the cit,
- streets. leaving their dead and injured
where they had fallen, The correspond
en,s of Russian newspapers agree tina
the fighting I'm this region. from LOwic
:, ~ to LODI, was the most sangulnary OF an
w. campaign in this war.
Dispatches from Pe,rograd say tina
u. Austria asked Russia for peace terms "A
~ early as the fall Of Lemberg. on Septem
w Der =. The negotiations were fruitless. hu
~ II * now reported that hungarian states
men and magnates arc bringing pressur
to bear on their Cabinet 10 obtain the hes
terms possible, Independently OF what Aus
tria may desire,
y" DJEHT III ANE HDTDC