Evening star., 1914-11-29
Made q Field Marshal.

Made Field Marshal.
Gen. Won Hindenburg. who has just
been made a field marshal by Emperor
William in recognition of the protec-
tion he and his troops have given the
East Prussian frontier, in an army or
der issued at Thorn. says the Germans
have brought the Russian offensive to
4 standstill and inflicted heavy losses.
Further south, to the west of Novo
Radomsko, the Germans also claim to
have repulsed the Russians, while for
the armies which are advancing to be-
siege Cracow the Russian headquarters
announces decisive success.
In the last few days fighting in this
region the Russians, according to their
official reports, captured about l3.ooo
prisoners. forty cannon. twenty ma
chine guns and some general staff off,
GERS.
This battle, although it is considered
In military circles here not to be as
important as that around Lodz. would
open the way for the Russians into
southern Silesia if they are successful.
Cracow, these military men admit.
would prove hard nut to crack. but
in this regard a usually well informed
Petrograd correspondent says the Rus
slams have a surprise in store for the
Austro-Germans.
CZernow1tz Abandoned.
BUCHAREST, Roumania, November
rs. via Petrograd-Advicesr received at
the Roumanian capital from Manor
nitza. say:
After a violent bombardment and at
tack from the Russian troops, the Aus
trian forces have precipitately aban-
doned Czernowitz, the capital of Buko-
wilma. fleeing in disorder toward Dorna-
vatra, with the Russians in pursuit.
The Russian advance guards marched
into Czernowitz at 2 O'Clock on the
afternoon of November 81. They met
with an enthusiastic welcome from the
Roumanian and Ruthenian people of
the city.
Hindenburg Claims Success.
AMSTERDAM, November Is, via Lon
don, S p.m.-A telegram from Thorn,
West Prussia. gives an army order is
sued by Gen. Won Hindenburg, COM
mander of the German army in Russia n
Poland, stating that lin the severe
nghting. lasting several days, my
troops brought to a standstLl the Of
fensive of the numerically superior
Russian army.
The army order repeats the contents
congratulating Gen. Won Hindenburg
OF his new success, thanking him and
his troops for the protection they af-
forded to the eastern frontier. and pro-
noting the general to the rank of field
marshal The army order concluded:
"I am proud of having reached the
highest military rank at the head of
such troops. Your fighting spirit and
perseverance have in marvellous man
ner inflicted the greatest Toss on the
enemy. over $4,000 prisoners $50 guns
and about 200 machine guns have fallen
into our hands. But the enemy is not
vet annihllated. Therefore go forward
with God for our king and the father
land till the last Russian is subdued
and at our feet. Hurrah,"
Says German Position Favorable.
BERLIN. by wireless to Sayville. No
vember 2S.-Information given out to-
day by the official press bureau fol-
lows:
Military critics of the Berlin news
papers consider that the success of
the Austrians November %, and of Gen
Mackensen on the following day have
made still more favorable the position
of the Germans.
Russian reinforcements appear to
have come from 1vangorod-which Mai.
Moraht military critic of the Berliner
Tageblatt. calls a daring attempt on the