Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-11-20
RUSSIAN CENTRE Z
NEAR FR0NT|ERIS
FORCED TO RETIRE
Falls Back More Than Half
Distance Recently
Advanced.
YIELDS TO SUPERIOR
STRENGTH OF GERMANS
Cars Men Push Advantage in
Galicia, Before Cracow and
in. East Prussia.
CUT OFF 100000 AUsrRLaNs
Battle In Flanders and France De-
velops Into Artillery
Duel.
,uT OFF 100000 AUsrRLANs.
Battle In Flanders. and France De-
velops Into Artillery
Duel.
Only Meagrc Reports
From Battle Lines,

nNLl mcasre reports arc at hnDd
" from any Of the scenes OF hoA-s
fiIitiea. hut 1t seeuas probable that
the severe contests is proceeding In
thnt western strip OF Poland With
tits northern and southern boun-
dnrses respectiveiy the ytstuie nnd
Warthe Rivers. and Its western
front the border of Poseu.
"Pnyticulnrly qutet,"s is the de-
seriptiou OF operations In the rest-
eFp zoue given by the French War
ducfs md attacks ny infantry MT
vartouS places were !, tu .progrcss
Tracy-le-yal, short distance
. northeast Of Paris. mud at the crook
OF the elbow OF the western battle
front. WINS the scene of the pfinst-f
pal Infantry Is sttacks. Here the
French reportsd they held hack a
town. inhictinE heavy casualties.
As for the east. Petresrad has.
admitted a1s biE. E..IeVersslssin Pala 1dss
n rsyerse In which t6e Rusatan !
Z, ,nrmien stsye been pushed hack nj
least nifty miles from the iGsrmnp
border toward Warsnr W. hut, Bertin
ren,utns rctlcent. 5H Y, J, - q Il s .ils-ss,il
.Iu the eastern theatre tho aevvlyg !,
commenced battles are proeeedins,', :,
is all the German War Once says.
A semiomcial Befitn report Y says
.-.rensons of ;stratesy- prevent dis
That these battles care proceed
tnE,n however. IL taken to mean
that the Germans nre st,iI pressing
against the Russinps in an eudenyor 4
to drive them hack eastward to
Wnraaw, over the same territory
In which only short tffne ago the
Russtans held the whip hand, and
drove the aGermanKi weatwsrd fbefore
them from thss Polish capital to tke !
German frontirr. y
Along the East I,yussiau : border
the Afuscovftes claim they are CON-
tinuousiy pressing forward. and
making tnroads. into German terri-
tory. Here also Germany makes !
claims. :, ass q 13S
=. With regard, to the operations
south,rnrd I'm 'Gaiieia and s In South :
ern Russian: Poland. the Russta,is,S
according to pnoficini reports, are
following. up previous ssuccess
against the Austrtsas. on the !
other hand, news dispatch from
vienna declares the Austriens have 7
/ 49,, 0uo many
guus. ", 7. 50. !; IS s. : & ~
4 bsttle has taken place between
Russian nnd Turkish wavshipn on
Sebnstopoi, In the Black Sen. AS to
SITS result. reports are contrndictory.
Petrogrnd claims the former Ger.
man cruiser Goeben, now flying the
Turkish mag, was struck hy Russian
shells,s that explosions occurred , ON Z
hoard her, that she quit, the en.s
counter and disappeared In the foR. \
Constantinoplc. through Berlin,
makes no mention of the t;oebep
having heen injured, but says one
Russian battleship vns badly dau-
aRed, mud TINT the others fed to-
wards .SebnstopOI. st
Turkey has not replied to the re-
quest OF the United states soverp-
nicnt for Information mn 10 why the
launch of the American rruIser
Tennesnee was fired on by Turkish
land forces Mt smyrna. II an mn
swrr Ia not Forthcoming shoytiy,sit
In probable the American govern
ment will max the British admiraify
for permission 20 use It's wireless 10
communicate with. the American
ships In Turktsb waters.