Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-11-20
VIENNA MESSAGE SAYS GALlCIAN
CAPITAL is BURNING AND
THE CITIZENS ARE
I'M FLIGHT.
ARMIES BOTH EAST AND WEST
ARE Numbered I'M OPERA
TiONS BY GREAT
BILLIARDS..
Paris Maintains Allies Have Gained
important Advantages at Various
Points-Observer Says Teuton
Gathering Attempts De-
crease in Force.

London, Nov. 18.-The coming Of
winter has partly paralyzed the move
ments of the troops both in the east
and west.
The Russians on the border OF east
Prussia are reported to be marching
through snow clad in sheepskin jack
cts similar to those which the Japa-
nese wore ir Manchuria.
Blizzard Causes Suffering.
Billiards have swept the trenches
in Belgium and northern France, and
brought great suffering to the wound
ed as well as to the men in the fields
A large area of West Flanders,
around Dixmude, has been flooded by
the heavy rains and is impossible for
fighting.
Reports Disagree.
The French and German reports
were contradictory as regards the
progress of their armies in the west.
Berlin says there was only slight &C
tivity because of the sn0Wstorm.
Paris, on the other hand, announces
that the Germans, in attempting to
cross the canal near Dixmude, were
thrust back, while the allies recap
tured several strategic points, re-
pulsed two German attacks southeast
of Ypres, and entirely destroyed"
German regiment south of Bixschoote.
Says German Attacks Wane.
An observer with the British army
who furnishes the newspapers from
the front, announces that the German
attempts to batter a wedge through
the British lines have decreased large
ly in force during the last few days.
Tt are more in the nature of de-
mOnstrations in force than serious as
saults, he declares. The writer pays
high tribute to the bravery of I'M
trained German youths and men Of
middle age, who, he says, do not hest
tate to march against the trained
English troops.
If the Germans have abandoned
their batterng ram efforts to thrust
back the allies lines and reach Calais,
their failure will constitute distinct
victory for the allies, it is asserted
here, because the allies have not tried
to achieve anything more than to hold
their own on the defense.
All Obstacles Overcome.
Rome, Nov. 17.-The Giornale
dItalia publishes dispatch from vi
emma which say news has been re.
ceived there that Cracow, capital of
Galicia, is burning and that its inhabi-
tants are fleeing.
A special dispatch from Petrograd
to the same paper says that the over
whelming advance of the Russians
toward CracoW is overcoming all OBJ
stacles both the difficulty of the pass
es and the desperate resistance of the
Apstrians. Cracow is entirely be.
sieged on the northeast. A sortie
from Przemysl has been repulsed by
Russian artillery and cavalry which
inflicted severe losses ON the Aus
TRANS.
Think Austrians May Retreat.
PetrOgrad reports that the Russian
campaign is developing fayorably in
east Prussia. From other sources ii
is reported the inhabitants Of that
country are beginning to fee before
the menace of a second invasion. On
the Polish frontier and in Galicia two
enormous armies are massing for g
battle which may decide the fortunes
of the war in the east.
The possibility is being discussed
that the Austrians may abandon era
cow without defense rather than sub
NIT the city to destructive lombard
ment.
Proportions Of Blizzard.
London, Nov. 17.-After four week
of most desperate fighting there is
Iull In the battle In Flanders Will
this lull, however, has come little re
lief for the men i'll the trenches, a.
the artillery and rifle fire, to which
they have been subjected with hardl
any intermission, has been replaced b.
one OF those severe storms which s.
often accompany November in thi
latitude.
In some parts of England the storr
has reached the proportions of biz
gard; on the sea a heavy gale rage
and the battlefields are getting thei
full share of wind and rain. For tn
most part the opposing armies hay
been content to shell each other at Ion
range, but the Germans have mad
several attacks around Ypres which
according to the French general stat
have been repulsed with heavy Iosse
Despite these losses it is not b.