Evening star., 1915-02-11
CALLS A CONFERENCE
OF MILITARY LEADERS
Russians Said to Have Lost 10000
in Fighting in Car
.pathians.
CzAR'S MEN REoeGUPY LODI
Polish Situation Declared Precarious
for Invaders-Russians Retreat
in Bukowina and Are Close
ly Pressed by Foe.

LONDON, February II.-So
terrible has been the death toll in
the battles waged at all points
along the several hundred mile
front in the east, the German EN-
peror, back from the scene OF
fighting and greatly depressed by
the thousands of lives exacted.
has called a military conference
in Berlin. Changes in the general
plan of campaign are expected
Everywhere in the east the
fighting is proceeding on a scale
unprecedented in the present war.
Charge is followed by charge, in
which hundreds on both sides fall.
Retreats are followed up closely
while at many points the soldiers
of Russia, Austria, Hungary and
Germany engage in hand-to-hand
bayonet fighting for hours, the
losses being immense. Teuton
dead on the Bzara and Rawka
fronts in the fighting since the
latter part of January are said to
total $4,000. Berlin claims that
10000 Russians have fallen. AT
one point an Austrian column
was completely shattered, while
at another, where the Russians
made bayonet attack on Austrqr
Hungarian trenches, 1900 dead
and bleeding soldiers were left OH
the field
Kaiser Still Hopeful.
According to the correspondents OF
certain neutral Danish newspapers.
Emperor William finds the situation
generally hopeful. but is worried over
the terrible price in men Germany has
had to pay for comparatively limited
advances against the intrenched Rus
slams.
Nevertheless, Danish military critics
say Emperor William has protested
against this slaughter, and that as
result an effort will be made by the
German war staff to transfer the night
ing to some point where the Russians
are less formidably intrenched.
Give Up LODI, Is Report.
Although the outcome of the eastern
situation still remains speculative. ow
ing to the numerous tremendous bat
ties being waged in Russian Poland,
the Carpathians and Bukowina, several
concrete facts stand out prominently in
today's dispatches. 1t is reported thai
the Russians have retaken Lodz. which
the Germans captured a few weeks ago
with enormous losses 1t is general!
accepted that the Russian position IN
Bukowina is precarious and that her
forces in this section are retiring,
closely pressed by the combined Aus
tro-German armies. The Carpathian
battles still are oelng nerceiy con-
tested.
The evacuation of Lodz by the Ger
mans has been confirmed. according to
a Petrograd dispatch. which states that
stores, offices, commissariat and trans
ports are being removed hastily TO
Kalisz.
A refugee who escaped from Czensto-
chowa the dispatch credits with the
statement that the Germans have re-
sumed with redoubled vigor the con
struction of heavily fortified lines.
which was suspended six weeks ago
Second City Of Poland.
Lodz, the second city of Poland. was
CAPTURED by the Germans December s,
when Field Marshal Won Hindenburg
bexan his dash for Warsaw. seventy
five miles to the northeast The Rus
SLAMS were driven out of the city only
after a desperate resistance, according
to German reports, although Petro-
grad contended II was evacuated for
81 strateRic reasons. The Russians were
reported yesterday to have assumed
the offensive on the Warsaw front in
an effort to push back the Germans.
who are said to have transferred many
troops from that region to East Prus-
sia.
The London Daily Nails Copenhagen
says that Tuesday the
German correspondents on the bzura
censor to admit that the situation in
Poland was very difficult for the Ger
mans.
Russians Are Retreating.
The Russians are retreating from
Rukowina, strongly pressed by SUPER
ior Austro-German forces" says the
London Daily Chronicles Czarenowitz
..They are stubborniy contestnx
avery yard and falling back in good
order 1t may be expected that they
will attempt to make a stand here at
rzernowttz and hold the capital OF the
province. -
The successes achieved by the Aus
tro- German forces In Bukowina, the
crown land adjoining Cali
.ia have caused the abandonment by
he Russians Of Czarnowitz. capital OF
Bukowina, according to statement
issued in Berlin today.
The German statement follows:
Our troops have occupied Suczawa
Bukowina) and are
toward Czsrnowitx. which