The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-11-24
GERMANS GAIN IN
EASTERN BATTLE
RUSSIAN CENTER is FORCED
BACK FIFTY MILES BY
kAiSER'S ARMY.
DESPERATE BATTLE RACES
of ebastopol-Austrians Claim
Capture of 5000 Russ
Prisoners.

Petrograd, Nov. 20.-Gen linden
berg, after forcing the Russ center
back fifty miles, continues to pour
troops into the country between the
Vistula and the Wartha He has great
ly strengthened his advance lines
| which were checked Monday. They
now are advancing again and while
fighting continuously the Russian
guards have withdrawn up the Vistula
a little distance
The Germans also have strengthen
ed the other end of their lines and
around LencZyca and Orloff a great
battle is iminent.
The Germans are throwing most
desperate energy into their efforts to
Illustrate the Russian operations in
East Prussia.
All the positions between the War
tina and the Vistula are now thickly
filled. The opposing armies are thrown
against each other in successive at
tacks and counter attacks to decide
the fate of the broad wedge which
Hindenberg is striving to drive be-
tween the Russian columns moving
upon Silesia and East Prussia.
Full confidence is felt that the army
from Thorn will be turned back to the
frontier without hampering the main
Russian strategy against German ter
ritory
Two Desperate Battles.
London, Nov. 20.-The situation on
the eastern battle front has reached
two desperate battles now proceeding
in East Prussia and northwest Poland
will determine whether the Russians
are to overflow German territory from
the Baltic to the Carpathians or
whether the Germans will hammer the
line Of the Vistula
The news last night indicates that
the Russians are making progress at
the north and south i'll East Prussia
and in southwest Poland, while the
Germans are advancing in the center
in northwest Poland The whole move
ment on the eastern front is a race be-
tween the German offensive at the cen
ter and the Russian offensive in the
north
Turks in Sea Battle
Berlin, Nov. Boy wireless to the
Associated Press--A Turkish fleet has
engaged a Russian squadron composed
of two battIeships and five cruisers off
Sebastopol, according to an official re-
port reaching Berlin from CONSTANT
nOple yesterday.
One of the Russian battleships was
seriously damaged and the other YES
sells, with the Turkish ships in pur-
suit, fed to Sebastopol.
Goeben Is Damaged.
Petrograd, Nov. 20.-There has
been IA naval encounter in the Black
sea between Russian and Turkish war
ships No definite news of the out
come has been received beyond that
the Turkish battle cruiser Goeben sus-
tanned serious injury
Claim Many Prisoners.
Berlin. via the Hague, Nov pa
Russian cavalry force was defeated
near Grabow, and 5000 prisoners TAX
en-, an official statement from Vienna
covering operations in Galicia and Pol
and declared on Thursday.
Conditions are steadily improving"
the statement says, 'as a result of the
operation OF German and Austrian
troops in the Carpathians, we occu-
Ply strong positions and the Russian
advance is unimportant."
In the continued advance upon Bel
grade, several Servian guns and con-
siderable supplies have been captured.
The statement declares the general
situation in Flanders and northern
France is generally unchanged One
French aeroplane is reported to have
fallen, and All, entire squadron of the
enemy forced TO descend, when the
German machine guns encountered
them. One German machine is miss
ing