Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-01-07
CAUSE GERMANS
TO CHANGE PLANS
PetfOgrad Says Retreat of Aus
trlanS Is Becoming ROut.
CzAR'S OFFENSIVE is STRONG

Hungarian Frontier Being Felt
Won Hindenburg Would Divert 1t by
Renewed Activity Against WARSAW
City Is Relieved Says Petroqrad.
London, Jan. 4-The thorough routI
of the Austrians in the eastern part
OF Galicia and the increasing pressure
OF the Russians on the forces defend.
ing the Cracow front have apparently
caused change of plan in the Ger.
man operations. 1t is reported from
Petrograd that German troops have
. been sent south to relieve the hare
pushed Austrian armies and that IN
Poland Marshal Won Hindenburg is at.
tempting to create diversion which
will compel the Grand Duke Nicholas.
to turn his attention again to the de
tense of Warsaw.
Austrian Retreat a Rout.
The official statement issued in
Petrograd by the Russian general
staff says that the Austrian retreat il
BukOWina, near Czernowitz, has taken
on the character Of a great rOut and
that the Russians are giving the
broken and exhausted Austrian col,
unns no rest. In western Galicia the
Austrians are also being punished Sc.
verely, especially in the region OF
GorIice, east of Cracow. The fighting
at that point is still undecided but
the Russians are said to have the adj
vantage The official statement says.
Con the Bzura and Ravka rivers we
are continuing the successful repuIse
Of German attacks in spite of the
enemy's heavy artillery fire and bomb
throwing.
"On the road to Wolsczowa in the
Kiel region of western Galicia at the
village of Lopuzno on Dec. 81, German
troops, after stubborn battle, took
possession of a portion of our trench
es, but a later counter attack by our
troops forced the enemy to abandon
all the ground previously occupied.
| several hundred prisoners and nine
machine guns. JILL
"In western Galicia fighting also
continues in the region of Gorlice.
Near Colujok we occupied Austrian
trenches where we took 1000 pris,
oners.
"The Austrian retreat in Bukowina
before the drive of our troops has
taken the character of a great rout."
The Austrian and German armies
are believed to have joined their lines
to the northeast of Cracow. The Ger
| mans are apparently defending the
roads to the north and the Austrians
| to be guarding the approach from the
northeast and east. Lopuzno is only
| fifty miles north of Cracow and as the
| Russians had reached that point on
! Thursday last it is supposed that they
are now much nearer to the Silesian
gate.
Germans in Fresh Plans.
A correspondent of the Daily Mail
at Petrograd telegraphs the following
at night:
1.-TWO fresh developments have ap-
| peared in the German plan of cam,
paign. They have sent Prussian and
| Bayarian troops to the aid of the Aus
TRANS, who have been ordered at all
costs to hold their ground along the
front protecting Cracow.
"The Germans are also making ef
| forts to cross over to the north bank
of the Vistula, their idea being that,
with the assistance of their East Prus-
sian army under General Francois,
they might threaten Warsaw from
this direction.
"The Russians have armed steam
beats on the Vistula which have thus
far prevented the Germans from es
tabIishing themselves on the island
at the junction of the Bzura and Wis
tula
"Along the Tvka the enemy has
shown renewed activity or rather has
been compelled to bestir himself by
the activity of the Russians. Across
the shallow stream which is only from
thirty to forty yards wide, there is a
constant exchange of all kinds Of fir
ing. Very large shells which have
bee1 falling into the Russian trenches
give rise to the rumor that the re
doubtable 16-inch howitzers have been
put into use by the Germans"
Petrograd Says Warsaw Is Relieved.
Another message from Petrcgrad
says that Warsaw Is no longer in the
slightest danger and reports also that
the Russians have crossed to the left
bank of the Bzura, having dis1odged
the Germans from their positions on
the right bank. 1t is estimated that
| the Germans now have twenty-seven
army corps operating against the Rus
slams and that 100000, Germans and
Russians have been captured and
three or four times that number killed
or wounded since the beginning of the