Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-12-04
Neither Side Makes Claims of
Victory in the Conflict in
Poland.
FIGHTING is STUBBORN
Many Prisoners In the Hands Of Rus
SLAMS, According to Petrograd Re-
ports-Emperor William Be-
slows Decoration on Gen
eral Mackensen.


crucial battle between The Russians
and the Germanic allies in Poland has
passed without news of a decisive re-
suit.
The facts, as cleaned from various
messages of correspondents, appear to
be that three neutrality-suspicious. en-
gagements are progressing between
Thorn on the north and Cracow on the
south, in which both combatants have
achieved local successes. without dis
tinct victory for either arms.
$4,000 Austrians Taken.
Tonight's official Russian statement,
while announcing Russian successes,
makes no claim of a sweeping victory.
However, the report does claim Off
cially the capture Of $4,000 Austrians
during the first half of November. g'he
statement follows:
Stubborn engagements continue in
the direction of Lowicz. An attempt
by the Germans to advance in the re-
gion of Rzeszow has been repulsed
with great losses to the Germans.
"On the rest of the front along the
left bank of the Vistula an artillery
engagement took place on November
20.
Take carpathan Passes.
THE Russian troops, after a fight
lasting ten days, captured on Novem-
Der % the Austrian positions which
protected the passes in the Carpathi-
ans, extending about thirty-three miles
from Koneczna, north of Bartfeld, as
far as Sczuko. The Russians in this
district captured cannons, machine
guns and many prisoners.
During the first half of November
we captured in all $4,000 Austro- Hun
garian soldiers and 600 officers.
AT Plotsk (Poland), the Russian
troops seized four ships laden with
machine guns and munitions.
In East Prussia minor engagements
continue"
German Army Forced Apart.
Some of the British military experts
believe that Field Marshal Won Hin
denburg's forces have been split into
three units, one of which certainly is
almost completely enveloped, while
the Russians have driven q wedge be-
tween the German army and it's Aus
trian ally in the region of Cracow.
They declare that the Germans are
rushing heavy re-enforcements from
the western line to avert Polish
Sedan.
They express the opinion that the
issue depends on whether these arrive
in time.
Berlin Reports Success.
Berlin reports the failure of the Rus
sian attack on the Notifications east
of Trakehnen, in East Prussia, with
heavy losses, while unofficial messages
from Petrograd describe an important
Russian gain and the capture of ten
miles of trenches to the northeast of
Lodz.
Germany acknowledges that the
Russian northern army has penetrated
into East Prussia to a distance Is
miles southwest Of Gumbinnen, which
is about twenty miles west of the Ger
man border.
Semi-official information from Petro-
grad is that operations along the
Prussian front are turning to the ad-
vantage of the Russians and that the
Germans are retiring in disorder.
Germans Capture 4,5oo.
Meanwhile the great battle in Rus
sian Poland between the Vistula and
Warthe rivers. continues without def
mite result. The German war office
states that the Russians were defeat
ed in battle south of the Vistula
| and that 4,500 men were captured.
F'uther south in Galicia the Rus
slams are said to have reached Ora
COW and to have begun the siege of the
city.
| A dispatch received here from Dan.
zig. in West Prussia, says that EN-.
peror William in telegram to Gen.
eral Mackensen expressed his great
satisfaction with the successes
achieved by the generals army in Pc
land. His majesty conferred on Gen.
eral Mackensen the Order of Merit,
Russ Cavalry Moves North.
Petrograd, Nov. 30.-The Russian
cavalry which forced a broad passage
northward above the left wing of the
German position in Poland has has
tened the final stage of General Won
Hindenburg's great experiment. The
backbone of the German defensive pc
sition now extends vertically from the
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