Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-11-30 | Page 10 | Russian Forces Are Victorious

RUSSIAN FORCES ARE VICTORIOUS I I Petrograd, Nov 20 The following, communication was issued from general gen-eral headquarters today "Between the Vistula and the Warta j the enemy continues to maintain the j position fortified by him at Strykow, Zgierz. Ezadek and Zdunska WHa, I Russian Poland Tbe fighting has been very stubborn in the regions of Stry- I kow and Zgierz. We captured at these points cannon, rapid firers and several sev-eral hundred prisoners. "Our troops have taken part in an engagement along the front comprla- j inK Glowue. Bielawy and Sabeta. Along the left bank of the Vistula i ....... 0 .ui ijva VUl U. LUIillLCl UV- tnck. "According to prisoners, the German Ger-man losses were enormous, many battalions bat-talions losing all their officers atid the companies being reduced to from sixty to eighty men. "On the Ozenstochowa-Cracow front there have been no Important engagements. engage-ments. The Austrian army which defended de-fended the approaches east of Cracow, Cra-cow, on the Schreniava and Raba, were defeated November 2G, being driven back to the region of the fortress. fort-ress. "In the Carpathians on November 27 we took as many as 1200 Austriaus. The troops of the enemy have retired from Bukowina We have occupied Czernowltz. "In the region of the Mazurlan lakes, East Prussia, and the Angerap river our troops have thrown back the Germans in several districts from their fortified positions."