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Show EVACUATION OF LODZ ADMITTED HI PETROGHAD Statement Is Added That I ? Russians Did Not Lose a f Single Man When Posi-tion Posi-tion Was Given Up a , . f m 'GERMAN ADVANCE DELAYED 15 HOURS I Movement of Muscovites Was Purely Strategical, According to Semi official offi-cial Communication PETKOGRAD Russia Dec 9 TI e evacuation by tha Buss ans of Lodz Rus eian Poland is admitted in a sem off c al commun cat on issued today though hd statement addB that the Rus elans did Dot loss a eoldler when the po sition was given up The text of the corrraiun cat on is as fo owe The Gerna-n ofEicia commun cation t says that the Rus ana must have had j enormous losses n .evacuation of Lodz The conf dene that should be p aced Jn this communication is evidenced by the fact that the Russian troops with drew from Lodz about ra dnig t on De cember 6 while the Germans remained piot onless for f fteen hours in front of our empty trenches the at ack on which had cost them more than 10 000 sold e s and upon which they dared not advance Only at 3 o clock in the afternoon of December 6 d d the Germans mo e for ward to ver fy that there was nobody in the trenches facing them They then entered the town In changing our posit ons In the re g on of Lodz we d d not lose a so d er "We undertook this maneuver on y after we had ascerta ned that the Germans had W n tel dec ded not to continue the r attacks in th s d strict. Our maneuver was entirely independ ent of any aggressive action on the part of the enemy |