The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-12-09
fights TO SAFETY
LONDON SAYS GERMAN TROOPS
BREAK RUSSIAN LINE.

PRESS ADMITS MISTAKE
British Papers Admit Claims of Vic
tory We're Premature-Battle is by
no Means Decided, Although Rus
slams are not in Position to Gain
Sweeping Victory as Anticipated.
Fighting in the north of France
and Belgium has assumed for the
time being an aspect Of minor impOr-
tance as compared with battles in
the East where the Russian and Ger
mans are struggling for supremacy
over miles of battle front in Russian
Poland and East Prussia.
London reports Tuesday night that
fighting for their very lives and in
the knowledge that great defeat
would end the German offensive and
compel them to fall back on their own
frontiers, the German troops broke
through the Russian lines at one
place and at another are holding their
entrenchments against all the Rus
sian attacks. Their ranks still are
being harassed by the Cossacks, but
seemingly the Russians are not now
in position to gain the sweeping
victory they had anticipated.
Though it seems clear now that the
German army in Russian Poland, or
that part of it which the Russians
surrounded near Lodz, narrowly miss
ed annihilation, the Germans fought
with such fury that the Gordon of en-
circling them was broken and as Ger
man reinforcements are coming up
the issue is not yet decided.
| The British press, interpreting the
news dispatches from Petrograd, con-
tends that Russian success on a
colossal scale still is possible, but in
all quarters it is admitted that the re-
cent claims of a complete Russian vic
tory were premature.
Berlin reports Tuesday by wireless
to Sayyille: "Ls st reports from
Russian Poland a.ven out officially
indicate that the Germans have re-
sumed the execution of their plan to
encompass the Russian right flank
and to force it back on the centre, at
the same time cutting off the Russian
communication with Warsaw.
''The carrying out Of this plan
which began with Russian defeat at
- and at Plock was later hinder
e. ! the arrival of Russian rein
forcements and the Germans for a
moment were thrown on the defen-
sive. Now after repulsing number
of attacks, the Germans appear to be
moving forward in the direction OF
Lowicz.
German movements in this region
have not been interfered with in the
last few days and this, German mill
tary observers say, must be taken as
a highly favorable sign as in their
opinion German repulse of the Rus
sian advances probably has been fol-
lowed by a general offensive move
ment of the Germans towards Lodz
Petrograd reports Monday via Lon
don: "Six hundred prisoners, seven
guns and many wounded fell into
Russian hands in yesterdays fighting
to the west of Lowicz, where the Rus
SLAMS took ten miles of German
trenches between Glovno and So5ota
according to information received TO-
day through trustworthy sources.
''The extent of the Russian ad-
vance in East Prussia between the
Mazurian lakes and the river Ange-
rapp is officially stated to be one
days march"
Petrograd reports the following Of
fetal communication Monday night:
"On the rest of the front along the
left bank of the Vistula an artillery
engagement took place November 20.
''The Russian troops, after fight
| lasting ten days, captured on Novem-
Der %. the Austrian positions which
protected the passes in the Carpa-
thians, extending so versts (about 33
miles) from Koneczna which is north
of Bartfeld, as far as Sczuko, situat-
ed south of Mezo Laborcz. The Rus
slams in this district captured can
| non, machine guns and many prison
ers.
During the first half of Noyem-
Der we captured in all $4,000 Austro-
Hungarian soldiers and 600 officers -
Vienna reports via London the fol-
lowing official dispatch: "In the
southern war theatre a step in the
operations has reached victorious
conclusion. The enemy, who for sew
eral days has been offering strong re-
sistance east of the Rivers Kolubara
and lid (Servia) again attempted to
take the offensive, but was repulsed,
suffering heavy losses in his retreat.
On the battlefield at Komatice alone
our troops found 500 unburied
bodies.
"Since the beginning of our last
offensive we have taken more than
10000 prisoners and have captured
A machine guns, 46 guns and Quanti-
ties of other war material"
Vienna reports officially through
Berlin and London that the Russian
defeat in the battle of Homonna,
Hungary, thirty miles northwest of
Unghvar, was greater than at first
supposed.
'The enemy's position" says the
statement, twas surrounded. Both
our wings directed flank attacks and
compelled them to beat hasty re-
treat with a loss Of 1000 killed or
wounded and 1900 men prisoners.
1.-THE total number of prisoners
taken by the Austrians in the fight
ing in Poland is 5000"
Berlin reports via London wireless
early Wednesday morning:
ga great story of success for the
German troops has come to light in
the fighting near Lodz. German
forces operating against the right
a