Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-12


claims that the Teutons have been re-
pulsed there and put to flight The
more optimistic British observers think
mat they see in this quarter a situation
IN process of development which is
similar to that which resulted in the
previous retreat of the Germans The
invaders, however. are now much
stronger than when they made the
earlier effort to reach the Polish
capital.
Says German Plan Failed.
The Petrograd correspondent of th>
Matin wires his paper that the Ger
man plan i'm Poland has completely
failed
His dispatch SAYS:
The German plan, which consisted
OF turning the Russian right wing at
Lowicz. and at the same time complet-
ing similar maneuver on the extreme
IeIt on the River Donajec, has COM
pletely failed. The Germans are ra.
duced to making bloody and useless ~.
lacks on our front"
a dispatch from Budapest ,,uotc.
.ne newspaper Azest as saying that tho
country of Saros Galicja- has bea,,
evacuated by the Russians, who Jeft
py way or the Dukla pass through the
cdrpathians and that Bartfa again A
IN the possessions of the Austrians.
Resistance Not Broken.
nERLlN. december IL, by wireless-
Inc latest reports from the fighting
zone around Lodz. according to infor-
mation given out by the German off,
enan press bureau. show that the re-
ISSUANCE OF the Russians in that region
is oy no means broken. The new Rus
sian positions on Manga cut are only
WE'VE or thirteen miles to the east
Maro OF Lodz. which demonstrates, it
III
done before the Russians can be COM
sldered definitely defeated
IN these circumstances" the German
ssa!ehient says, the battles in the vi
einity OF Lowicz, to the northeast of
LODI. have gained added siynit;r.nce
~ the -Germans succeed in breaking
through here the positions of the Rus
siais pehind Miazga will be untenable
me report from south Poland does
not mention the place where the Aus
tro-Ierman attacks on the Russians
nave been resumed, but il probably is
a.; at a point to the south of Piortokow.
nese attacks serve the purpose of pre-
venting the Russians from detachinc
FORCES to assist their armies farther TO
tne hortn-, These attacks, as well as
tnose OF the Austrians in the south.
thus lar have led to no definite result
Russians Well Intrenched.
Maj. Moraht, military correspondent
"a eAo DSi AueF IaSeDidtt, VINO Occa-
sionally seems to have special sources
OF information, assumes that the at
tack in north Poland is being directed
against the Russian positions immedi-
ately in the rear of LODI, where the
Russians have fortified the line of the
Miazga "a small stream twelve to fif-
teen miles east of the city. The Rus
SLAMS have a faculty for fortifying a
series of positions in the rear, one be-
hind another, and hence 1t is difficult
for a successful opponent to get the
Russian masses readily into action
toward the rear.
Maj Moraht pictures the strategy of
army standing between the Vistula river
and the LodZ, while a wide fanking
movement is in progress from the north
west from east Prussia, and Austro-Ger-
man forces in southern Poland are op-
Grating vigorously to prevent the de-
tachment of any reserves to assist the
threatened Russian center.
The German army in the center saws
the major, is faced with the task OF
thrusting its opponents back bodily be-
cause the left wing of this army is now
near Iowicz and has not advanced far
enough toward the Russian line of COM
to exercise decisive effect
On the Russian retirement from I.odz
The northern force, operating from
East Prussia, which stormed PrzasnySz
December 3, has advanced about TWEEN
ty-five miles into Poland, a quarter of
the distance to Warsaw Mai Moraht
believes any further advance NAV force
the Russians to divert their strategic
reserves at Warsaw to head off this new
danger.