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Show FIGHTING POLAND GOES OK Quiet in the Carpathians, Carpa-thians, West Galicia and South Poland, Says the Official Communication Com-munication Issued by Petrograd War Office. FINAL ONSLAUGHT EXPECTED SOON Dispatch From Russian Capital to the Central News at London Declares De-clares Battle of Lodz Ended in Success for the Muscovites. LOVDOXT Dec 4 5 32 p m In a dispatch from Petrograd, the corrs Txmdent of tha Central News says The battle of Lodz has ended in success for the Bussian troops according ac-cording to the Bourse Gazette vfcich adds that great numbers of German prisoners, cannon and ma chine guns are heing brought Into Lodz, PETE.OGEAD, via Venice and London, Sec 4, 10 3a p. ra The i following official communication ! was issued tonight In the Carpathians, in West Galicia Ga-licia and In South Poland, quiet prevailed generally yesterday The fighting in north Poland continues. Epeelal Cab ft 1)7 Arrangement With London Dally Te egr&ph and In ernational ea Service.) PETEOGBAD Dee 4 Some sur nse has been caused here by the an oancement of the general staff that omparative tranquillity has set in on 11 fronts where Russian troops are en aged. It was believed that the great attle of western Poland would be ought to a definite issue without pause r relaxation. There is no reason to suppose that Us period of diminished intensity will a of long duration Any moment we lay hear that operations have been sumed with fresh vigor and this tune ley will not be likely to calm down ntil one s de or the other has given ay As to which side that will be 0 doubt exists here ! tussians Capture Guns Unofficial indications that the Ger tans suffered very heavily continue. message from Lodz states that ten mnon and seventy five machine guns iken from the enemy have been rought to that town. The zone whence the Germans sue eded in escaping from the crossfire 1 the Bussian enveloping troops is a erfect enamel house All who have tsited that vast battlefield unite in escribing the carnage as horrible. The enches are choked with layers of Ger an corpses At one village in three icess ve charges the 1 berian r flemen owed down the German ranks like heat whes Differ J The views of the best ml ltary critics "lifer considerably as to the meaning of Je curious development of the battle of oflz. Some be ie e that the Germans re now merely making: tremendous cf ort to extricate a port on of their army fom a position of deadly peril and that he object of the musses ot reinforce Jents which they ar br rglng uo is to over tho retreat f the s aken and ex austed corps on w h w tebuntoftlo rotracted conflict 1 as fallen. In tl o pinion of others, the enemy Is still bent n the aggressive nd 1 opes by persistent for a to effect a oreach In the Russian .The conviction is gaining ground that Uhc Germans ha e t ansferred and are till transferring en aree bod es of roops Into Poland from the western ont and that they have es gned hem eves for the present to a defens ve at itude agaist Great Brlta n and Franco 'ossible Movement Colonel Shumsky contemplates the pos ibillty of the German forces In U e west elng reduced to ten or fifteen corps A Tlfl s telegram to the Bo se Ca ette sas that the Russ ans are ope a JK In tl e Bajaza dlstr against t e urks under fa o able ondlt ons 1 e here they are welcomed bj tl e popu a Ion wltl gifts of food Approaching one Plage they were met by a procession (Continued on Pago Three ) FIGHTING Ifj SOUTH POLAND IS GQNJINUED No Hint as to Outcome of Great Battle From Official Sources; Quiet on Other Fronts in East. (Continued from Paffo One.) headed by a ryrlest carrying religious iiymholtf. The Turkish Inhabitants also try to Ingriitiatc themselves with the, imader. Only tho Kurds glvn trouble In mio place thej' turned an Armenian uionaater into a stable. Massacre Doubtful. There Is no mmirmatlon of tho reported re-ported nmnsacre of Arnicii'.uis in the Ottoman Ot-toman army, t hough many Armenians, f faring" outrages, have I'-ft their homes and fled to tho hitN. The Turkish au- thorities havo received orders from Constantinople Con-stantinople to enter their hiding places and endeavor to indiioe tnm to leave the hllis and retuni. The Ottoman troops have also been instructed to Fhow the utmost consideration to Armenians. It has been established tliat the Turkish Turk-ish and German consuls at Tahrtz inade. preparations to supply foodstuffs to Ottoman Ot-toman troops, who were expected to invade in-vade Persia, |