The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-11-14
RUSSIANS SWEEP
FOE BEFORE THEM
Germans Continue Their Retreat Be-
yond the Vistula, and Austrians
Are Retiring Fast.
Iest.rn Newsraper rnIan New. snrrice.

Westara Newspaper Union News Service.
London.-That the Russians are
| continuing their victorious advance
into German territory is repor1e ed in
official announcements in Petrograd
Monday. The Russian General Staff
tells of the occupation of Goidap. sew
| eral miles across the frontier in Last
! Prussia, and adds that the Russian
onrUsh has stopped the movements of
| the German railway trains near the
station Of SOldau. many miles south
west Of GOldap. in East Prussia.
Further south -he Germans have
| continued their retreat beyond the
| Nistula river and on the roads to Cra-
| COW the czar's armies are pushing the
retreating Austrians, according to Pc
| trOgrad.
The Russian advance guards are
now fighting on both the East Prus-
/ sian and Posen borders, and it As be-
| lieved that the Germans have given
up their first plan of Offering resist
! ance on the positions which they had
prepared along the Warthe river.
According to the German reports
| the Russians have suffered a reverse
on the East Prussian frontier, where
/ they lost 1000 men and secured some
machine guns, but of the fighting else
where in this region, Berlin says
nothing.
The roads in Russia are hardening
with frost and armies now can he
moved more quickly, although the
Russians do not possess the strategic
railways that the Germans do. Silesia,
too, with better ground for the horses,
offers an excellent field for the use OF
cavalry, in which Russia has proved
herself to be superior. both in num-
bers and efficiency, to the other ma
tions at war
The Cossacks are regaining the re-
putation which they lost in Manchuria.
and the raid they had already made
into Silesia, it is expected, will be re-
peated many times.
Kaiser Planning New Campaign.
A dispatch to the Reuters Tele-
gram Company from Rome says:
German advices received here say
that Emperor William, much affected
by the Russian victories, has held a
General Won Hindenburg, the Duke OF
Wurttemburg and the Austrian chief
of staff, Field Marshal Baron Condad
Won Hoetzendorf, to decide on a
further plan of campaign"
1T is asserted in Berlin that Ger
many and Austria-Hungary now have
concentrated about 100000 soldiers
on the line from Thorn to Cracow and
this is considered sufficient to crus.
the Russian forces" says a Times
dispatch from Copenhagen. The mes
sage continues:
Military authorities declare that
the Russian army will be completely
destroyed. They explain that it is
necessary to allow the Russians to ad-
vance to the frontier to prevent good
retreat after their defeat. The pres
ent retirement of the Germans is nee,
essary, they say, in order to have the
railways Immediately behind the arm-
for the approaching main battle"
DisIodge the Germans.
The following official communica
ton was issued from Russian general
headquarters:
ION the East Prussian front our
troops have dislodged the Germans
from the region of Wirballen, which
was strongly fortified. and have pro
: gressed as far as Stalluponen Qt
miles east of Gumbinnen.) In the
region of Rominten forest and Lycs
our troops continue to press the enc
my's rear guards.
: ION the left bank of the Vistuls
our cavalry has penetrated German
: territory. damaging the railway neal
: PIeschen station, to the northwest o.
KalisZ.
"On the roads to Cracow on Novem
ber 6, we attacked the Austrian real
guards along the Nida river and th'
next day on the River NidZica.
In Galicia our troops continue thu
offensive In the latest engagement
on the San river we captured 125 OF
ficers and 10000 soldiers, as well a
|. rapid tirers and munitions of war.
South OF Przemysl, on Novembe
6. we took more than thousand pris
: oners."