The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1914-11-19


troops that invaded Turkish Armenia
have been compelled to retire. This
is admitted in an official dispatch from
the governor general of Transcau-
casia. In his message, sent from Tiff
lis, he states that the Turkish troops
have been heavily REINFORCED. AS
the advance guards of the Russians
retire the Turks are pressing the pur-
suit
BY FRANCIS LAVELLE MURRAY.
International News Service Correspondent
Petrograd, Nov. 17.-Ofiicial an
nouncement was made here that the
Russians had recaptured Soldau, East
Prussia, and that the German troops
were in full retreat from the East
Prussian towns of Angerburg, at the
northern end OF the Mazurian lake re-
gion. This is the third time that Sol
dau has been taken by the Russians.
On the two previous occasions it was
retaken by German re-enforcements
sent from Thron but the belief was
expressed at the war office that the
town would now remain in the posses
sion Of the Russians because of the
strength OF the forces that had in
maded East Prussia from the Mlawa
region.
Russians Move Rapidly.
The retreat Of the Germans at An
gerburg is declared by the war office
to have been forced by the rapid ad-
vance of the Russian troops southwest
of the Mazurian lake district. Despite
the bad roads from Mlawa the Rus
slams have transported heavy artil-
lery and large bodies of infantry
across the East Prussian frontier, and
the infantry is moving forward rapid
ly behind great screen of cavalry.
The skirmishes that marked the
Russian advance into Southwest
Poland last week have now developed
into a general battle, according to the
latest news from that section of the
front. The Germans between Cracow
and Czenstochowa have been heavily
REINFORCED and are offering stubborn
resistance, but it is stated that the
Russian advance continues steadily
though surely.
The Austro- German forces east of
| Cracow and south of the Vistula are
also resisting obstinately the Russian
| troops that have passed Tarnow. The
campaign of the czars troops in this
region of Galicia may be delayed for
a short time Until Heavy artillery can
be brought up, but the opinion was
| confidently expressed at the war office
that the fall of Cracow was only
matter of days.
Advance Into Hungary.
| Russian troops are again advancing
through the Carpathian passes into
Hungary. This is renewal OF the
offensive that had been abandoned
when the Austrians threw great
| masses of troops against the Rus
slams who had already invaded
| Hungary while the Germans ad-
vanced abainst the Vistula front. 1t
is frankly admitted here that able
strategy was shown by both the Aus
! trian and German commanders in their
| concerted offensive along the entire
East Prussia Poland-Galicia front, but
| they were outnumbered by the Rus
| slams and the campaign that for time
| threatened to be great triumph for
| the Austro-German armies ended in
almost complete collapse.
The Warsaw correspondent OF the
! Novoe Vremya sent the following dis
patch:
THE Russians continue to gain sue
| cesses in East Prussia and Poland and
are approaching the gates of Cracow.
| Latest reports from the wide-flung bat
tie line show that the Russian columns
are again rolling the Germans back
along the whole front after halt oc-
casioned by the difficulty of moving in
fantry and artillery to the front.
THE Germans have been driven
| from Angerburg, an important posi-
ton among the Mazurian lakes, where
the northern Russian army is gaining
substantial ground daily.
Across East Prussia another army
is plunging northward from Mlawa. 1t
has defeated the Germans, who Of
fered a stubborn defense, and is 90
miles behind the German corps among
the Mazurian lakes.
General Won Hindenburg apparent
" fears that the German army in this
region Is threatened with disaster and
is hurrying large forces forward from
Thorn in an attempt to check the
Russian troops"