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Show RUSSIAN ARMY RETREATS AFTER SEVERE LOSSES LONDON", Dec 7, 2:4? a. m. Delayed dispatches from Petrograd indicate that the situation at Jyidz Friday, the day the dispatches were filed, was then serious. "For the past three days," says one of these dispatches, "the Germans in Russian Rus-sian Poland around Lodz have been strenuously stren-uously aggressive. Their wedge, which al road v has been driven into Russian Poland, Po-land, 'is being pushed with tremendous reinforcements. Tho base of this wedge is Thorn and Kali. The apex is Lo-wicz. Lo-wicz. This gives the Germans control of all the railroad in this triangle. They are using the railroads to pour in an unceasing un-ceasing stream of fresn troops and engines en-gines of war. "The enemy "s plan around Lodz involves in-volves the cutting of sonic of Warsaw's most important lines of communication. The Germans plan to hold this, wedge a 11 winter, inaugura (ing an elaborate trench warfare system like that on the west front." An ofticial telegram from main headquarters head-quarters received at Berlin and transmitted trans-mitted by way of Amsterdam to Reuter's Telegram company, says that Lodz was occupied by the German troops on Sunday Sun-day afternoon, the Russians beating a retreat after severe losses. |