The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-11-23
GERMANS NEAR
POLAND CAPITAL
american Press)

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airy patrols have penetrated to with
in twenty miles of Warsaw, the cap
ital of Poland. Heavy fighting is
still in progress today between Lo-
wicz and Skierniewice, where the
Russian forces are opposing the main
line advance of the Germans under
General Won Hinderberg. Reports
received tell of the destruction Of
German cavalry ten miles in advance
of the main battle line. z -
London, Nov. 23.-Berlin officially
asserts that the decision of the bat
thing in Russian Poland has been
postponed by the arrival of Russian
reinforcements. Vienna statements
claim progress at all points in Po-
land. Petrograd admits partial Teu-
tonic successes, but claims the cap
ture of Gumbinnen, in east Prussia.
The Germans have resumed artillery
attacks at Ypres and claim to have
driven small British squadron off
the coast of Newport. Scissor and
Rheims are again being bombarded
by the Germans and activities re-
sumed in the Argonne region.
London, Nov. 23.-The warning ar
mics on the west battlefront seem to
have come to pause, as if an in
terval Is necessary for them to solve
the new diff culties of their positions
raised by the unexpected severity of
the weather, while on the east front
the meager news from Russian Po-
land indicates that the Germans and
Russians are battling along the whole
front from the Warta to the Vistula,
while to the north Of the Vistula the
Russians are drawing back. No de-
cision, however, has been reached.
In West Flanders reports from
many sources indicated that all mill
tary operations have been suspended,
while along the rest of the western
line only desultory artillery duels
prevent the front from giving the i'm
preston that truce exists.
A new crop of stories has arisen
that the Germans are sending heavy
guns and submarines by rail to Bel
GUM, destined for the coast, while
other reports, declare that long trains,
capable all told of carrying 100000
men, are being prepared to take Ger
man achievements from Belgium to
the east front. ...,F
Russia Captures Battery. .'
Vienna and Berlin agree that no
decisive battles have occurred In Po-
land, while Petrograd says that the
German offensive between the Vistula
and Warta rivers has been checked so
definitely that the Russians have been
able to resume the aggressive, an at
titude which they signalized by the
capture Of battery to the northwest
Of Lodz. Although LODI is near the
center of the German Russian battle
line London has received advices
pointing out that this movement indi-
Gates the Germans are in danger of
being outfanked. It is difficult to con-
ceive of a thanking movement here
unless the Russians are present in
enOrOmus strength.
The latest advices from Berlin say
Germany has great expectations con-
corning the outcome near LODI and it
generally is taken for granted that the
gigantic Russian army, In spite of it's
numerical superiority, is threatened
seriously by General Won linden
burg's ingenious strategy, and his
spirited offensive movement" The
official Berlin statement adds that the
retreat of the Russians is made diff
cult by the fact that the Germans de-
stroyed all railroads, bridges and high
ways. Berlin believes Russian de-
feat in Poland will decide the entire
campaign In the east, asserting the
Russians are without trained reserves,
ammunition and officers.