Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-21
TEUTONIC ALLIES
FORCE MAIN RUSS
ARMY INTO FIGHT
Austro- German Troops in Muscovite
Poland Compel Enemy to
Give Battle.
FRAY ON ALL ALONG THE FRONT
This is Report Reaching Dual
Crowns Embassy in Washing
ton from Vienna.
THOUSANDS ARE MADE CAPTIVE
Berlin Story Says Experts Predict
Decisive Victory Soon.
MILITARY CIRCLES HOPEFUL
COnstantinOpIe Announcement Tells
of Further Triumphs of Turks
Near AGOw, salinas and
ZavatIar.
THOUSANDS ARE MADE CAPTIVE
Berlin Story Says Experts Predict
Decisive Victory Soon.
MILITARY CIRCLES HOPEFUL

WASHINGTON. Nov. 20-Austro-Ger-
man. forces in Russian Poland have
forced the Russian army into battle
which has developed along the whole
'front.' according to dispatches from
Vienna received late today at the Austro-
Hungarian embassy here.
The dispatch said:
Operations of allies forced Russian
main force to battle which developed
along whole front group of Austro-
Hungarian troops captured 5000 more
prisoners"
Efforts of Gernans.
PETROGRAD, Nov. 2O.-The following
official statement from the Russian gen.
eral staff was issued here tonight:
THE efforts of the Germans seem to
ne aimed at trying to break down our
front between the Vistula and the Warta
''Our offensive on November 10 met
with partial success.
Northwest of Lodz we captured bat
terry of heavy artillery, ten machine
guns and several hundred prisoners.
stubborn fighting on the Czensto'
chowa and Cracow front is developing
normally. On November 17-1S we took
o,VVu pTlSOuSISs
I'm GaIicia we have occupied Wisnicz
Gorlice, Dukla and Ujok."
For the Holy War.
BERLIN, Nov. 20.-(By Wireless to
Sayville 1.-The opinion was expressed In
military circles here today that notwith-
standing the great number of Russian
troops in Poland, estimated at 100000, ex-
Guiding those in the Schirwindt region,
General Won Hindenburg would soon be
able to report a decisive victory. The
position OF the Russian forces is Con-
sidered unfavorable, both on account OF
the nature of the ground and because
such large forces are concentrated within
a comparatively small territory
Interest in the situation in the west
is nomentarily eclipsed by that in the
east.
Take seven. Thousand Prisoners
Reports from Vienna tell of successes
in Galicia, including the occupation by
the Teutonic allies of Tarnow ano
Wielicszka. According to these reports
1000 prisoners we're taken.
Constantinople reports further victories
near Azow, Salinas and zavauar. 1t Is
also said that in consequence of the ad-
vance Of the Arabs, several OF the govern
mental departments of Port Said, suez
and Ismailia, have been transferred to
zagazig, an Egyptian town forty miles
from Cairo. The government OF the Sue7
canal is reported to have been taken ovel
by the military authorities.
Reports received today from Holland
according to information given out II
official circles here, are to the effect
that In the fighting near Bixschoote anc
Dixmude the French lost 5000 and thai
1900 Britons were drowned in the Hsel
canal.
BaIlin Denies Interview.
Press information given out in officia
circles today included the following
ALBERT Ballin, director general of th'
Hamburg American Steamship company
who was quoted recently by the LondoI
Times as saying that it was becominl
clearer daily that England could not b.
defeated denies that he ever said such
thing. On the contrary he believes tina
England already has been defeated.
Special dispatches from the front stat
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