Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-12-04
Reports From Petrograd Tell of
Success for tile Russian
Armies.
LITTLE NEWS IN BERLIN CON-
CERNING THE SERIES
OF BATTLES.
Issue Of Fighting Still in Doubt, ls
All That Comes From London
Kaiser Said to Be at the Front With
General Won Hindenburg.

Petrograd, Dec. 1.-The following
official statement was issued here to-
night by the cars staff:
Stubborn engagements continue In
the direction of Lowicz. An attempt
by Germans to advance in the region
of Rzeszow has been repulsed with
great losses to Germans.
Fighting continues in the direction
of LODI
The Germans tried to advance in
the region of Schertsowo, but were
rreulsed with great losses.
On the left bank of the Vistula the
only fighting is an artillery duel.
On Sunday, after ten days fighting,
the Russians captured Austrian posi-
tions defending the Carpathians ex-
tending for so versts (about SO miles)
from Koniechno, north of Bartfeld,
through Zhydowskie and Zhindan-
owa to Shouko, south of Mezo, and
took a number of prisoners and quick
fire guns.
In the first half of November (Rus-
sian calendar) the Russians captured
$4,000 -Hungarians, including
600 officers.
At Piotsk the Russians captured four
barges of provisions and ammunition
In the East Prussian arena unim-
portant fighting continues.
Germans Fighting Hard.
Petrograd, Nov. 30.-With huge
but mobile Russian force forming rap
idly narrowing circles about the strug-
Cling German corps on the western
edge of Russian Poland, Field Mar
shall Won Hindenburgs army appears
to be still fighting desperately to unite
the three sections into which 1t is
said to have been cut.
At the same time unofficial, dis
patches-which are practically the
only source Of information now-de-
clare that the Russians have split
apart the German and Austrian arm
les in the neighborhood of Cracow.
more than one hundred miles south
OF the Lodz and Gombin region
The backbone of the Germans de-
fensive position now extends verti-
cally from the southwest for 40 miles
from the line which the Russian cav
airy cleared. This line is held by
strong fighting column northward to
the Vistula.
Trapped In Turning Move.
Above Gambia the Germans at
tempted to answer the turning move
ment by pushing southwark from the
other end of their line at Zdunska-
VIOLA on the Warthe near Sieradz. but
found an impossible barrier In a
Russian column which had thrown
back westward the German relief
force which was attempting to adj
vance from Wielun,
This column inclosed the German
position at both ends and intensified
the assaults from the south on Won
Hindenburg's intrenchments.
The Russian combined armies are
rapidly forcing terrible defeat on the
German invaders. The soldiers fight
with most unfinching determination.
The heaviest German losses in the
last phase of the fighting have been
inflicted along the corridor" opening
from the position where two corps
were inclosed The other corps were
sent to effect junction with them
in the Strykow region near Zgerz and
now the entire force has been for
three days under heavy Russian
fire from both sides of the passage
leading toward the north.
Report Austrians Weakening.
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ness and resistance of the German
commanders during the last fortnight
are partly due to the necessities of
the Austrian situation The Austrians
are showing no strength around Cra-
COW, and they are pessimistic as 30
the result of German strategy IN their
own territorial campaign. Yet the
Germans urged them to deliver a de-
cisive coup against Servia, and also
to throw a considerable force upon
the Roumanian frontier.
Send more lime" is the request
telegraphed daily from army COM
manders in Galicia. Sometimes the
plea comes twice a day, but day
never passes without its being re-
ceived at least once.
The urgent dispatch means only one
thing-cholera. The lime is needed
for the destruction OF the bodies of
those who have died from the scourge
and for the humiliation of the filth
and dirt from which it has arisen
Sweep Up carpathians.
Moscow, Nov. 30.-The correspond