South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-02-02
LAUNCH
ANOTHER DRIVE
AGAINST WARSAW
Great Battle Develops East of
LOWiCz in Poland Where Teu-
tons Attempt to Divert En-
emy From East Prussia.

PETROGRAD, Feb. ,. - Another
great battle has developed east of
Lowicz in Poland where furious at
tacks and counter attacks have been
in progress for three days In an
official statement issued today, il was
admitted that on Sunday the Rus
slams holding the front near BolimOw
were driven back from their first line
trenches, but later they regained
some of them.
The German losses are described as
colossal. The forces of Field Marshal
Won Hindenburg drove their furious
assaults against the Russian counter
despite the pounding of the Russian
artillery. The fighting in that region
indicates that the Germans are trying
to launch another drive against War
saw To divert the Russians from their
operations in East Prussia. The
statement says:
German prisoners report that the
Germans last week lost over 5000
killed and many prisoners. In the
Carpathians the Russians captured rs
officers and 4,O65 men and took 10
rapid-fire guns and 10 cannon.
"On Sunday the Germans concen-
trated a great force with artillery in
the region of SOchachZew, BorjimOw,
and developed an offensive of great
tenacity which compelled us TO retire
to our second line of trenches
Turn Germans Out of Trenches.
Counter attacks by the Russians
turned the Germans out of all the
trenches they had occupied, causing
them colossal losses. simultaneously
with the Borjimow attack the Ger
mans carried out series Of determ-
ined assaults along a front from the
village of Gouime TO the hamlet of
Moghelj, these being supported by
heavy artillery fire. We repulsed all
these attacks partly by artillery and
rife fire and partly by the bayonet
Between noon and o'clock sun
day afternoon the Germans, thanks to
the activity of their artillery against
our trenches, succeeded in carrying a
part of them. At o'clock we began
a general counter attack with the re-
suit hat toward evening on Sunday the
enemy retained only small part OF
the advanced trenches and a castle. I
Thus the German successes on Sun
day in the vicinity of BOrjimow was
compared with the losses
sustained by them through our fire
and bayOnet attacks. According TO
our military commanders our artillery
Inflicted immense damage upon the
Germans dispensing great gatherings
OF the enemy anu T6QQClnR 10 silence
a number Of German batteries. AS a
result of this we were able to with
stand the whitening fire of the enemy |
Fighting continued in the Carpath-
ians.
we continue to advance with sue
cess along the Nijnia- Polianka Ludo-
vislIa front.
After the fighting in the Lipno-
Dobrzin front it required 90 carriages
to remove the enemy's wounded.
Lose 5000 Men.
German prisoners taken in the |
Borjimow district say that the Ger
man attacks on this front over>a dis |
tance of one and one-half l1ilOmeters
long, cost the Germans. between Jan !
% and Jan. so, over 5000 killed, be- /
sides many wounded. In the Car
pathians from Jan. SO 10 Jan. % on !
the Ninia-j jP olianka- Wyslok front we
captured rs officers and 4.O65 men
and took 10 rapid-fre guns. and four
cannon"
Appended TO the official statement
was the following note
The severe encounters on the
SOchacZew- Bolimow front and on the !
Rawka and Bzura rivers indicates that
the Germans are making another at !
tempt 10 move on Warsaw The !
scene OF the lighting in this region is |
about 30 miles from Warsaw"