GERMANS AT LODZ
REPORTED EVACUATION OP THE CITY , ( (Received October 27, 11 a.m.) LONDON, 26th October. Reuter s Petrograd^correspondent states that the Germans are evacuating the city of Lodz. [Lodz is one of the principal cities of Western Poland, eighfcy-two miles by rail south-west of Warsaw. It is the centre of a group of industrial towns, and has itself giown with remarkable rapidity from a population of 50,000 in 1872 to over 400,000 to-day. It is a sort of Polish Manchester, manufacturing cottons, woollen, and mixed stuffs, with chemicals, beer, machinery, and silk. The population is largely German, the proportion being: Germans 40 per cent., Poles about 37 per cent., Jews 22£ per cajht.]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 102, 27 October 1914, Page 7
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