Russia.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 283, 27 November 1914, Page 5

Russia.

CROWN PRINCE’S ARMY.

RETREATING IN DISORDER.

United Prlss (Association. (Received 9.0 a.m.) Rome, November 26. A Russian oflicial report says that the Crown Prince’s army is retreating in disorder, abandoning arms, ammunition. provisions and horses, the horses with saddles bearing the Imperial monogram.

CONFUSION AND DISORDER OF THE AUSTRIAN ARMIES.

OFFIERS’ PATHETIC LETTER.

(Received 8.45 a.m.) Rome, November 26

Eye-witnesses from Galicia describe the Austrians’ extraordinary confusion and disorder. Entire detachments were foodloss for days, and wholesale pillage followed, residents being shot on the slightest pretext. One officer committed suicide after writing ns follows to his wife: “Am going mad. lam unable to fulfil such orders. It would rather commit suicide than be murdered.”

FIGHTING AND MARCHING.

RUSSIANS BECOME INURED.

(Received 9.20 a.m.) Petrograd, November 26

As showing the soldiers’ remarkable powers of endurance, some of the corps have been continuously engaged for fifty days. They have stormed several fortified positions and marched over 1000 versts of bad roads. They are so inured to hardships that they are now of greater fighting value than ever. GERMAN OFFENSIVE BROKEN. FIERCE RUSSIAN CAVALRY. KAISER'S CARRIAGE CAPTURED. , (Received 9.50 a.m.) Petrograd, November 26. The military authorities deprecate the publication of incomplete accounts of the Vistula-Warta fighting. It is believed in military circles that two German army corps broke through a section of the Russian defence, and a Russian counter-rush drove them southward, and they were practically surrounded 'on Monday between Lodz and Lovetch. There is now no doubt that the German offensive is broken. The Russians are bringing up fresh troops to meet each German assault. When the Germans gave way the Russian cavalry did terrible execution, capturing several guns. General Hinderbergbe is weak. He is isolated from the Crown Prince, who is commanding south of Czenstochowa.

The failure of the turning movement in the direction of Etielun is due to the Russian Grenadiers, who made prisoners of five thousand men and captured much stores and many machine guns. The trophies captured at Czenstochowa include the Kaiser’s carriage, bis blue cloak being within.

MORE RUSSIAN CAPTURES. ARMY CORPS TAKEN. Petrograd, November 26. There were popular demonstrations upon the announcement that the Russians had made prisoners of an army corps at Lodz. Official.—The fighting near Lodz con. binues. The masses of Germans who made an incursion east of Lodz are hard pressedj and are making a supreme effort to break through to the northwards.

We captured south of Kolusyki prisoners, heavy artillery, and held guns.

; We were victorious in the Lowiez district, and gained advantages on the Czenstochawa-Cracow line.

We also enveloped considerable Austrian forces beyond the Carpathians, near Mezolobrz, capturing a general, forty officers, 2500 men, three railway trains, and machine guns. We occupied Komona. A SECOND ARMY CORPS IN A HOPELESS' POSITION. London, November 26. The Daily Mail says that the Russians fighting at Lodz surrounded a German division of 15,000 men, which surrendered.

Another was hopelessly placed, and was expected to be captured, making a total of 50,000. v If Russian strategy succeeds here, it will be the biggest success of the whole war. Thirty-six trains left Warsaw to bring in the prisoners.

GENERAL GERMAN RETREAT. Londoib, November 26. The Daily Telegraph's Petrograd correspondent reports that forty-eigUt trains were despatched to Lodz for the conveyance of prisoners, indicating that at least an Army Corps had been captured en masse. The Germans are retreating along the-whole line, and the retreat in placesi has become a panic-stricken rout. Howitzers, field-guns, ammuni-tion,-and stores have been abandoned in large quantities. j One account states that an entire Army Corps was captured, with artillery and transports, and another Army Corps practically annihilated.

KAISER JOINS IN RETREAT, Copenhagen, November 26. The Kaiser last week was present at Obernalgen, in East Prussia, and witnessed the German defeat from a hilltop. When the Germans retreated towards the hill the Kaiser abruptly departed.