The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1914-11-30
RUSSIANS Press
ON IN POLAND
The Cars Troops Apparently
Hold the Advantage.
AuS1RIANS LOSE At CRACOW

AuSTRIAnS LOSE At CRACOW
$4,000 Are Captured and the Museo
vites Sweep Through carpathian
Passes to Victory.
London. Nov. 3O.-While deprecat
ing the exaggerated reports OF Rus
sian successes in the battle in north
ern Poland, where the German en-
peror has jained Field Marshal Won
Hindenburg to offer his advice and to
encourage his troops, the latest avail
able official reports from Russian
headquarters state the advantage in
the fighting still lies with the Russian
army.
It is also officially said that enor
nous losses have been inflicted on
the Germans, but no mention is made
Of the capture of German divisions
which has been so freely claimed by
the Petrograd correspondents OF Lon
don and Paris papers.
Opposed to this is the German OIL
cial report, which says the Russian
attacks have been repulsed and that
the German counter attacks have all
been successful.
Some days must elapse before this
battle, which promises to prove the
most decisive of the war, is conclud
ed. So far, all that is definitely known
Is that the German advance has been
brought to a standstill. Some of the
German troops have been partly or
wholly surrounded, but they are still
fighting stubbornly to break their way
through the Russian lines, apparently
to the northward, where they hope to
join reinforcements sent from Thorn.
In the battle before Cracow the
Russians do claim decisive success.
Austrian and German prisoners In this
region. This victory is taken in Pc.
trograd to mean that Cracow will not
bar the Russian advance in Silesia
from the south, but that, with the
Austrian army beaten, it will be ne
cessary only to mask the fortress.
The Russians likewise announce
success on the Austrian side of the
Carpathians and against the Turks in
the Caucasus, althou-i in both re.
Gions the worst of weather has pre-
vailed.
The Russians appear to have &C
complished the difficult task Of
hn
pathian mountains southwest of Lem
berg. Fighting in the Carpathians has
been most ferocious, being carried on
under extraordinary difficulties, which
were increased by the severe cold,
the bitter winds and occasional snow
storms. Reports received in London
say that in their operations against
the Austrians the Russians have won
important successes during uninter-
fupted fighting for the last two days.
Count Tichkavitz, a prominent Rus
sian of Kiev, on arriving in Petro-
grad. reported that on the way he
passed thirteen trains, containing
German prissLers, going eastward
from Warsaw.
Following are the Official reports:
RUSSIAN.
Between the Vistula and the War
t. the enemy continues to maintain
the position fortified by him at Stry-
kow, Zgierz, Szadek and Zdmska
Hola (Russian Poland). The fighting
has been very stubborn in the regions
Of Strykow and Zgierz. We captured
1t those points cannon, rapid firers
and several hundred prisoners.
"Our troops have taken part in an
engagement along the front compris-
ing Glowno, Bielaway and Sobota.
Along the left bank of the Vistula
the Germans carried out q counter at
tack.
According to prisoners, the Ger
man losses were enormous, many bat
talions losing all Of their officers and
the companies being reduced to from
60 to 80 men.
ION the Czenstochowa-Cracow front
there has been no important engage
ment. The Austrian army which de-
Tended the approaches east Of era
cow on the Schreniav and Raba were
defeated Nov. 26, being driven back
to the region of the fortress.
I'm the Carpathians on Nov. q we
took as many as 1900 Austrians. The
troops of the enemy have retired pre-.
cipitately from Bukowina. We have
occupied Czernowitz.
I'm the region of the Mazurian
lakes Cast Prussia) and the Agene-
rap rivers our troops have thrown
back the Germans in several districts
from their fortified positions"
GERMAN.
I'm the east the situation on the
right bank of the vistula remains un.
changed. Russian advances in the
neighborhood of Lodz were checked,
and were followed by successful
counter attacks by our troops"