The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-06-30

dent" said one.
'I will if I can," the president re-
piled.
stop instantly the attack on the User
river and send him reinforcements.
The transfer Of these corps relieV-
ed the pressure of the User river,
but arrived too late to prove Of a
decisive effect at Lodz. General Mac
kensen had bravely cut his way back
to the German army, leaving many
dead and 10000 prisoners. 1t was
upon a reformed entrenched line that
the army from France made the at
tack near Lowitz. However, General
Rouski, commanding this front, con-
sidered his line from Lowitz to Cra-
cow strategically weak and withdrew
to the positions along the Bzura,
Rawka, and Nida Rivers, south OF
Tarnow.
While Hindenberg was fighting so
fercely in the north the Austrians
had again come over the Carpathian
mountains and attacked the armies
under General Brousiloff and Gen.
eral lDimitrieff, who had been named
an army commander when Rouski
was promoted. They were driven
back all along the line, leaving So
900 prisoners.
During the fighting around Lodz
four army corps had been Withdrawn
from General Sievers, who had in
yaded East Prussia to fortified
line between the Masurian lakes and
Kurisches Haf.
In these positions the opposing ar
mics remained in trenching and re-
organizing until the month of Janu-
ary.
Without Warsaw the occupat; oo Of
Poland is more of a liability THAI an
asset to the Germans. 1t takes from
their fighting front the advantages Of
strategic railways, places them
among a hostile population, and adds
nothing to the food supply Of the
combined empires, as this portion Of
Poland scarcely raises enough grain
and vegetables to support the native
people.
Warsaw is the principal railroad
center in this theatre Of war. It is
also a neutral military depot. Enor-
mously rich, it would furnish as large
war indemnity as Antwerp. Its
capture, furthermore, would increase
enormously the German military
prestige with the Balkan States.
In January, therefore, General
Hindenberg made desperate attack
upon Warsaw. OF necessity, perhaps,
perhaps compelled by higher authori-
ties, Hindenberg gave up the former
tactics of quick marches and flank
attacks, Instead he massed 500
pieces Of artillery of different cali
bres and kinds upon a six-mile front
from sJuchazew to Bolimow, on the
Rawka river, and for days tried to
drive hole through the Russian de-
fensiVe
Russian officers who were present
tell me, that the Germans advanced
in close order, frequently with rifles
siung ccer their shoulders and hold
ing eacll others hands; after an in
teryai of 200 yards there came an
other line, and then another, then an
other, and then another, then anoth-
er, until they seemed like the waves
of the ocean. I have heard no con-
tradiction of the oft-repeated asser-
ton that these soldiers were sent in
to action greatly stimulated by strong
liquor.
For more than ten days and nights
this attack continued, shrapnel burst
overhead and high explosive shells
fell in the trenches, the opposing ma
chine guns squirted 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 equalled the
slaughter of Cold Harbor.
When Hindenberg gave up his des-
perate assault $4,000 Russians lay
dead and wounded on the field Of bat
tie, and the losses of the Germans in
their unsuccessful attack must have
been much greater.
But while he failed in his main
objective, Hindenberg would not be
denied a victory. Advancing with
eight corps against the army Of Cen
eral Sievers, now reduced to three
and a half corps, General Rindenberg
placed four corps in line and with
his remaining four corps turned both
flanks. The Germans then attacked
Grodno with the Twenty-seventh
Corps, but were repulsed by the I'M
perial Guards.
A counter-attack by the Russians
advanced along the line Ossowetz to
Pultusk. The Germans rallied at
MaIwa and resorted to their favorite
manoeuvre, swinging around the Rus
sian right flank at Prasnysch. This
time the move had been planned for,
and the Russian reserve, debouching
from Pultusk, took the German flank
ers in flank DELFT.
The battle is called by the Rus
slams the victory of Przasnysz and
| was fought during the week of Feb
ruary 22-2S and, as q result, the
Germans were compelled to withdraw
one of the armies attacking Grod-
nod. Their line, therefore, runs from
Skierniewice through Makow, Angus
towo, Suwalki, to Kalwarja.
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