New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-06

Petrograd, Dec. 5.-The Germans
whose daring stroke TO penetrate the
Russian centre in Eastern Poland has
ended in failure, with heavy losses.
especially in the fighting southeast OF
Lodz, are forming a new line, extend
ing roughly from Kutno. in the north.
to Cracow, in the south, for a fresh
onslaught. In the meantime desperate
lighting continues.
The German effort now centres a.
Szczerczow, twenty miles west Of Pet
rokow, with that town the objective.
Violent attacks and counter attacks are
also being made along a line from
Glowno, sixteen miles northeast OF
Lodz, to the Vistula River.
The right, or southern, wing Of the
German-Anstrian army, which rests on
Cracow, is commanded by General
| Dankl. He is supported on the north
by the army under General Hetzen-
dorf, which is based on Czenstochows,
while the new army which was sent
from the west fills the gap between
this force and General Mackcnsen's
army, which after extricating itself
from the Russian meshes, is now in a
new position. extending from Kutno
southwark. The eighth East Prussian
army, il is believed, has taken up the
northern part of the line.
100000 Oppose Russian Left.
The preparations for an entirely new
battle are taken as proof Of the Ger
mans determination to keep the Rus
SLAMS out Of their territory at all costs.
The strength of the German forces
opposing the Russian left wing is es-
timated at five corps, about 100000
men, each corps occupying a front OF
from eight to ten miles in extent.
There are indications that, owing TO
their exhaustion, the troops composing
the German centre, where most of the
regiments lost large percentage o.
their fighting strength, have been re-
placed by fresher troops.
The following official communics-
tion was issued by General Hesdquar-
ters to-night:
desperate engagements in front OF
Lowicz, and particularly in the region
of LODI and along the roads to the
west toward Petrokow, continue. On
December A, on the roadway between
Pobianice and Lask, our armored
automobiles, BY favor of the darkness,
fell upon a large column of the en-
emy, dispensing it with machine gun
FIRE and artillery, causing serious
losses.
"The rest of the front is without
essential modification"
News dispatches from the front at
tribute the chief cause of the Russian
success in crushing the German forces
near Lodz to the miraculous endurance
and tireIess aggression Of the Siberian
troops.
Siberians Work Havoc.
The entire wooded region from
Brzeziny to Kurpin is described in
.hese dispatches as a German grave
lard. Here an unsupported Siberian
is reported to have charged
/ battery of heavy German artillery
md TO have bayonetted the gunners.
Heavy German forces which had pene.
rated to Tuszyn were surrounded and
obliged to fight their way to Brzeziny
o unite with the main body. The Rus
'ians essayed counter-attsck after
to prevent the junction.
)ut the Germans cut a passage at the
point of the bayonet for distance Of
fifteen miles.
The dead and wounded in this dis
-rict are reported 10 be so thick that
The Russian hospital corps, after work
ing three days, had not cleared the
held. Most OF the Germans treated
showed bayonet wounds.
The re-blackened ruins Of the viii
Iage of Kurpin, dispatches from the
front say, are packed with charred
bodies OF Germans, who took refuge
from Siberian bayonets 20 fall under
tho fire OF Russian battery.
Dispatches from Poland say that the
German disaster, attending the march
10 reach the main German force from
an isolated centre, began with
charge OF the Siberians at Rzgow,
Town six miles south of Lox.
The Siberians after a long march
entered prepared trenches and i'm
.asked psrmission to sttSnk