The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-12-02
BATTLE GOES ON
RUSSIANS REPORT DOUBLE SET
BACK TO GERMANS
ARRIVE

REINFORCEMENTS ARRIVE|
Arrival OF Fresh Troops in Poland
Throws Result of Fighting Again
in Doubt-No News From West
English Successes on Persian Gulf
Defeat of British in Africa
Up to late Tuesday night there was
no conclusive news from the Polish
battlefield where a decisive victory
for either Germany or Russia would
vitally affect the course Of the win
ter campaign, both in the east and
the west.
London reports Petrograd dis
patch: "Gen. Won Hindenberg's army,
which last week was sweeping toward
Warsaw in its second advance
through Russi:n Poland, is reported
to be in retreat after having expert
enced severe reverses inflicted by the
Russians, who, with reinforcements,
made brilliant stand between the
Vistula and Warta rivers.
While the extent and the COM
pleteness of the German defeat was
not known here, the very fact that
Gen. Won Hindenberg had been check
ed was by far the biggest feature of
Tuesdays war news. The same dis
| patches that tell of his reyerses, how
ever, say that the German reinforce
ments were being brought so that an
other great battle is likely to develop
( on line nearer to the frontier OF
Posen, where the Germans will have
the same chances of renewing Wig
orous offensive, as had the Russians
in the present instance.
"Gen. Won Hindenberg has about
| 100000 men, but If the Petrograd re-
ports can be accepted, they have been
separated, badly cut up and thou
sands taken prisoners, so these Ger
man forces will require reformation
and rest. after the severe punishment
inflicted upon them following their
daring advance into the heart of Rus
sian Poland"
| Petrograd via London repor1s soy
/ there have been continued Russian
successes in the Czenstochowa-Cra-
COW front, where, on November %,
the Russians took six thousand pris-
oners.
Berlin reports that in Poland the
appearance of Russian reinforce
ments is postponing decision Of the
battle.
| Paris reports: There has been
intermittent cannonading on the
front and a few .ttacks in the Ar
gonne, which have all been repulsed." "
| London reports: "a terrific battle
has commenced. The Germans have
| heavy reinforcements and fresh guns
for this renewed effort to cut through
the Allies line. The English artil-
lery thus far has thwarted all the
German attacks.
While undertaking immense tasks
in the east, the Germans, according
to all accounts, are preparing to
launch another offensive movement
4 in the west. Just where this is to be
is known by the general staff alone
1t is believed here that they will
make another effort to get through
to the French coast, AID perhaps at
the same time try to force the line
of French fortresses in the Argonne
region
"The Germans have been violently
bombarding Ypres, in Flanders; Sois.
sons, in the Aisne, and Rheims, while
they have been attacking IN force in
the Argonne region. The French
claim the Argonne assaults have been
repulsed, while the Germans say that
they have been gaining ground stead
ily.
| "Any or all Of this activity may be
intended to divert attention from the
quarter in which the supreme attack
will be made, but the Allies are sure
to discover soon where they must e1-
pect the next blow. To ward off the
possibility Of the Germans again try.
ing to move along the coast the Brit.
ish feet has been bombarding their
positions from the sea.
1 Berlin reports: Fighting con-
| tinues at Nieuport and at Ypres. A
small British squadron twice ap-
! preached the coast, but was driven OF
| by our artillery. The British guns
had no effect.
! "In the forest of the Argonne we
| are gaining ground step by step, one
trench after another and one point
of support after another being wres!-
ed from the French and a number OF
prisoners being taken daily.
"a violent reccSaoitering expedi-
ton against our position on the east
of the Moselle River was made inef-
! London reports: "The recent oper-
ations in the Persian Gulf have been
crowned with even greater and more
rapid success than was anticipated
after the signal defeats inflicted up
on the Turkish forces on November
Is and II. The latter, abandoning
all further resistance here, leaving
eight guns and many wounded in
our hands. The Wallis Of Basra and
Bagdad accompanied the defeated
Turkish forces in their fight up the
Tigris River.
"Barsa "a river port on the Shat
-el-Arab, so miles from the Persian
Gulf, was occupied on the 21st inst.
by our naval and land forces. All the
British in Basra are reported safe.
"In East Africa, it appears from
the latest information that, as an i'm
portant German railway terminus
was reported weakly held, a force was
sent from British East Africa to seize
it.
"On the evening Of November 2
one and one-half battalions landed
within two miles of the place and be-
came heavily engaged Just outside the