Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-11-18
GERMANS FACING
STUBBORN FACTS
Petrogrsd Correspondent Declares
Teutons Are Realizing FNtility
of Meeting All Attacks,
KEEPING SOLDIERS ON MOVE
Fighting Forces SRid 60 ne In Com
tInuaI Transfer - Invaders
BIow Up Bridges I'm War
saw Reteat.

LONDON, Nov. l7.--Telegraphing from
| Petrograd under date OF Monday evening,
the correspondent Of the Daily Mail thus
sums up the situation on the Russian
front:
The Germans at the present moment
are experiencing the sruth of the homely
proverb that You cannot eat your cake
and still have it.
Last week they withdrew troops from
the East Prussian front and hurried
them to Thorn. which was threatened by
the rapid Russian advance. This move
has been for the moment successful in
Checking that advance.
Marching along both banks OF the
Vistula, the Germans took refuge at Mes
hava, only twenty miles distant from
Thorn and waited there for reinforce
ments. soon these began to arrive and
moved up the valley OF the Vistula with
the double object of relieving pressure
from the Russian forces making toward
Thorn and also threatening the flank OF
the Russian army which had been max
ing such rapid progress toward the from
tier in the neighborhood of soldau.
william Makes Appeal.
Emperor William sent. urgent COM
mands to his generals and also addressed
a personal letter TO his soldiers not to
let Prussia again be invaded. He knows
the effect which the flight OF fugitives
| from this region as far as Berlin, made
in September, and is afraid that another
panic coming on top of the Russian vic
tory at the battle OF Warsaw, might
have serious consequences.
THE only way of carrying out the i'm
1 H.
Lyck, where the nature OF the country,
all lakes and marshes make Russian
progress very slow. This maneuver has
certainly caused the Russians to give
way in. the Vistula valley, but the effect
in East Prussia has been the opposite of
that desired. The Russians there are
pushing forward at every point and the
inhabitants are fleeing before them.
Forces Arc Limited.
The Germans apparently nave not yet
realized the inexhaustible military re-
sources of the czars immense empire.
| They, themselves, have only a certain
number of men. whom they are obliged
to move quickly around like a stage
army, in order to create the illusion that
they are strong everywhere. When this
number Is finished Germany is finished"
Germans Destroy Railroads.
PETROGRAD, Nov. 16.-A statement re-
ceived from the general staff today said:
After our successful fighting in Oc-
tober along the roads to Warsaw and
| IYangorod, the enemy began retreating
toward his frontier, destroying the roads
and railroads. He set on fire the railroad
stations and freight sheds, tore up
switches and destroyed the reservoirs and
water pipes At some points on the rail-
road he blew up the rails and their fast
4 enings. thus rendering necessary the use
OF new rails when repairing the tracks
! In addition all bridges and aqueducts,
leven the smallest. were damaged in such
way as to make repairs impossible,
4 rendering their rebuilding necessary. Tel
i egraph poles were felled, wires cut and
! insulators destroyed.
AN this damage seriously impeded our
advance and enabled the enemy on the
left bank of Vistula to escape outside of
our field of action and TO get near his
territory.
Accumulate Troops.
| Taking advantage of this and their
| complete railway system, the Germans
rapidly began to send their troops to
the north in order to accumulate i'm
portant forces against our wing.
Their concentration in that region was
covered by a large body OF cavalry,
brought from the west, and partly sup
ported by Austrian cavalry.
Toward the middle of November the
German offensive was renewed between
the Vistula and Wharf.-The rivers. This re-
suited in fighting, which 10 still going
on on the front of Flock. Lentchitsa and
Oureiff.
In Eastern Prussia. in the region of
Stailuponen. the enemy tried by means
of separate bodies of troops to adopt the
offensive, but he failed and retreated.
I'm the region of Soldau and Neiden-
burg the battle continues, We maintain
our offensive toward Cracow and the
front OF Galicia,
1.-THE attempts of the Austrians to make
a stand on our road have been vain. In
the fighting of November 10 we captured
ten officers and about 1000 soldiers"