Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-06-23


instantly the attack on the User river
and send him reinforcements.
Pressure ON User Relieved.
The transfer of these corps reuev.
ed the pressure on the User river bit
arrived too late to prove Of decisive
effect at LODI. General Mackensen
had bravely cut his way back to the
German army. leaving many dead
and 10000 prisoners. It was upon a
reformed entrenched line that the
arfny from France made the attack
near Lowltsch.
However General Rouski com.
manding this front. considered his
line from Lowitsch to Cracow strate-
gically weak and withdrew TO the DO.
sitions along the Bzoura. Rawka and
Nida river south of Tarnow.
While Hindenburg was fighting SO
flercely In the north the Austrans had
again come over the Carpathian
mountains and attacked the armies
under General Brousilofr and General
Dimitrieff, who had been named an
army commander when Rouskl was
promoted, They were driven back an
along the line, leaving $4,000 prison.
crs
During the fighting around LODI
four army corps had been withdrawn
from General Sievers, who had invad.
ed East Prussia TO a fortified line be-
tween the Massourian lakes and Kur-
ischcs Half
IL, uncfftnne thn
mics remained in trenchlng and re-
organizing until the month of Janu.
airy.
CHAPTER III.
Without Warsaw the occupation of
Poland is more of liability than an
asset to the Germans. 1t takes from
their fighting front the advantages of
strategic railways, places them among
hostile population, and adds moth
ing to the food supply of the com
bined empires, as this portion Of Po-
land scarcely raises enough grain and
vegetables to support the native peo-
pie.
Warsaw is the principal railroad
center in this theater Of war 1t is
also a neutral military depot Enor-
mously rich. 1t would furnish as large
a war indemnity as Antwerp. Its cap
ture, furthermore would increase en-
ormously the German military pres
tige. which alone holds off the at
tacks of the Balkan states and Italy.
In January, therefore, General
Hindenburg made a desperate attack
upon Warsaw.
OF necessity perhaps, perhaps COM
PEELED by higher authorities, Hinden-
burg gave up the former tactics Of
quick marches and flank attacks. In
stead he massed 600 pieces of artil-
lery OF different calibers and kinds
upon six-mile front from Souhac-
Jew to Bolimow on the Rawka river
and for days tried to drive a hole
through the Russian defensive.
Germans in Close Order.
Russian officers who were present
tell me that the Germans advanced
in close order. frequently with rifles
slung over their shoulders and holding
each others hands; after an interval
of 200 yards there came another line,
and then another, then another, until
they seemed like the waves of the
ocean. ! have heard no contradiction
to the oft-repeated assertion that
these soldiers were sent into action
greatly stimulated by strong liquor
For more than ten days and nights
this attack continued, shrapnel burst
overhead and high explosive shells
r. ha nnnnQinu mi a.
chine guns squlrted death. the Ger
mans were as many as the waves OF
the sea-but the Russians came as
thick as the sands of the ocean, Every
day probably equaled the slaughter
of Cold Harbor
When Hindenburg gave up his oes-
perate assault 10000 Russians lay
dead and wounded on the field of
battle, and the losses of the Germans
in their unsuccessful attack must
have been much greater
But while he failed in his main OBJ
jective, Hindenburg would not be de-
MED Nictory. Advancing with eight
corps against the army OF General
Sievers. now reduced TO three and
half corps, General Hindenburg plac-
ed four corps in line and with his
remaining four corps, turned botn
tanks. The Germans then attacked
Grodno with the Twenty-sevehth
corps. but were repulsed by the I'M
perial guards
Russians Counter-attack.
A counter-attaek by the Russians
advanced along the line of OssoWieE
TO Pultusk. The Germans rallied at
Mlawa and resorted to- their favorite
swinging around the nus
rian right flank at Prasnysch This
time the move had been planned tor
and the Russian reserve, debouchihs
from Pultusk, took the German naHN-
ers in fragrant deficit.
The battle is called by the Russians
the victory of Prasnysch and was
fought during the week OF February
22-oS, and, as result, the Germahss
We're compelled to withdraw one u
the armies attacking Grodno. linen
line, therefore, runs from Skierhie-
wiece through Makow, Augus'o"o'
Souwalki, to Kalwarija
The fighting on the southern ifoh'
has been in the Carpathlans' Nheto
the Russians have been forcing tho
mountain passes in anticipation 70 an
advance into the plains of Huhgals'
Here the progress has been SLOW ."
ing to the snow and to a difficulty 0.
rapidly bringing up transport throus"
the mountain valleys.
There has been no single slea'
battle but many severe small en-
gagements, all correlated one VI