The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-02-17
fight IN The EAST
GERMAN ATTACK CONTINUES IN
FRONT OF WARSAW.
west REPORTS QUIET

Masses OF German Troops, Numbering
Thirty Thousand to the Mile, At
tempt to Take Russion Positions
Petrograd Gives Account Of Battle,
But Berlin Has Nothing to Say.
Petrograd reports: While the Ger
mans with three-quarters of their
forces along the Bzura containued to
hammer at the Russian line, the Rus
Bzura at hamion, near the junction
of the Bzura with the Vistula, and
captured the German fortified posi-
ton. At the same time they drove
the Germans across the BZura at OAK
hovara, close to Sochazew.
! At Kamion the Russians captured
steel bullet-proof shields, a number
| of quick firing guns, and in this dis
trict and on the upper Rawka river
they captured several German out
posts.
| Near Bolimow the Germans were
| unrelenting in their attack, and the
|
ity. German forces repeatedly used
armored motor cars, but shr lpnel
| from the Russian lines forced them
to retire.
Russian military authorities be-
!ieve the desperation evidenced by the
Germans in Russian Poland is a
shield for the removal of forces to-
ward the western front, and they
compare those attacks with others de-
| iivered by Gen. Won Hindenberg early
in the war, when six corps Of German
soldiers were rushed toward France.
At Shabno. north Of Tarnow, Cali
cia, the Austrians aimed at Russian
Notifications on the left bank of the
Dunajec. They tried to approach
through an elaborate system Of
trenches, but were driven out at the
point of the bayonet.
In the Carpathians. from Dukla
pass to Uzcok, thence so miles direct
ly south of Przemysl, the Russians
report q continued advance. in which
they are pushing the enemy to the
south. Three thousand prisoners are
reported to have been taken in the
past three days.
"Our troops on the left bank Of the
Bzura river near its juncture with
the Vistula, have undertaken fur
i ther offensive movement and have
captured very important point OF
support of the enemy north of the
village of VitkovitZe.
sOn an estate near Rariimow we
have captured CO. siderable section
Of the Germans entrenched line; also
a portion Of the second line trenches,
taking six rapid-f1re guns. In the re-
gion of Borjimow the enemy has
made three pronounced attacks with.
out success
Not since the battles around Lodz,
| Russian Poland, early in December
have the Germans delivered such vici-
Gus attacks as when they attempted
to break through the Russian lines
Inear Borjimow. Probably never be-
/, fore in the east have they concen.
trated such force upon one point.
The Lct:!efeld was fiat unob-
. structed plain. The Russians met
. the German advance with rife fire
> and the bayonet, the first lines. strug.
Cling forward and backward from
trench to trench. At some places the
. trenches were only a few hundred
yards apart. The fighting was extra.
ordinarily sanguinary. Whole com
, panies we're eXterminated.
For six miles between Rumin and
Boriimow the Germans threw 1c5.'
600 infantrymen and heavy forces OF
cavalry. supported by 100 batteries
: Of artiIIery-600 guns. It is esti'
. mated there were nearly $4,000 mer
: to the mile, coming on in ten OF
twelve lines like waves Of the sea.
"In the Carpathians the fighting
continues along the front which Is
between the Dulka Pass and Mount
Wyszkow. We advanced at point
near Sividnik, in the valley of the
river La BoTtch. moving in the direc-
ton of Oujok. We took 2,OGo prison
ers and ten machine guns.
cat Mount Houkholka and al
Beskid our troops during the last
few days have been confronting the
enemy with a desperate resistance
They accepted no less than ten en-.
gagements at the point Of the bayo'
nte. On February We resolved tc
withdraw our soldiers from the
mountain positions previously select
ed and organized by us. The often
, sive strength Of the enemy in this
vivinity is very considerable"
. -. Vienna reports: "Rissian attacks
have been renewed at certain places
in the Carpathians, but have. broken
down with heavy losses the enemy
Our attacks continue .A the forest
region. The number Of prisoners
taken by us in the Carpathians has
been increased by 4,00o."
Berlin reports Russians Friday at
tackled on the east Prussian frontier
and south of the Vistula, against the
German front from Humin to the
Rzura river. All attacks were repul-
jsed Germans made 1000 pr1s.
oners Z. took six machine guns.
ESPECIALLY from the British, but
Ialso from the French side, the ale
cation is repeated continuously that
the Germans. to commemorate the
iemperor's birthday. made attacks on
IA large scale. which we're attended
throughout with heavy reverses for
the Germans.
i "All German official reports Of
events on the days in question prove
that this allegation was invented,
with perfdious intent. OF course,
such fighting manners cannot touch
the emperor's person. but the Ger
man army headquarters would not
fail to expose their baseness to
shame"
| London reports: On his chosen
ground west of Warsaw. General Won
Hindenburg. German commander. is
continuing his costly lunges to break
through to the Polish capital. At the
same time the Russians further to
the north have pressed forward and
after crossing the BZura river they
are seriously threatening the Ger
mans with an outfanking movement.
Thus. another great battle for Var
-ow is on. involving perhaps greater
ass of life than any other conflict in
tho war The ieene remains unde-