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Show DESPERATE FIGHT IS REPORTED Germans Throw Column Aft- ' er Column, Shoulder to Shoulder Against the Russians. j LOSSES ARE HEAVY I Russian Enveloping Move- ment Around Cracow Continues Con-tinues Slowly But Successfully. I Petiograd, Dec 9. vja London, .' :H p. m. The German- attacks on Lowicz, to the west of Warsaw, en-ti en-ti rda' were conducted with absolute I caul "i rom-'-MMeuec and. according accord-ing to a reitort reaching here. Ie- I 1 mendous losses were incurred. Tin1 I I German method of throwing column 1 nftei column in dose ranks the mn it-..-i-arch.ng shoulder to shoulder, was III evidence of the determination to rtke J-a thiB position which is on the Afreet road to Warsaw and nearer to War-;. War-;. than anj other fighting centei nil j the Lodz front. In spite of the murderous fire of the Russians, the German ' infantry I.,,- I,, li.n chnllnn- Iranrlics ilutr Ollt With their bayonets and their hands a distance of 200 paces front! tie-Russian tie-Russian entrenchments, and brought up their artillery to within 800 Daees Ol the Russian positions. Russian Inflict Heavy Losses. 1 he Army Messenger, an official organ, declares that while the G.-r-mans were moving forward yesterday from Lask, they attacked PabianlUi, ten miles southwest ot Lodz, in -'ose ranks and forced the Russ: to give i-.rcund but, with the approaeh of darkness, the Russians stopped Ch advance of the Germans and inriu'ed heavy losses on them by the con-tlnued con-tlnued use of armored automobiles on tbe Lask-Pabianitsi highway, aun-ska aun-ska Wola. Lask and Pahianitzi marked mark-ed the successive steps of the attempted at-tempted German advance on Warsaw j The Russian movement envelopinK Cracow continues slowly but suc fully, according to information reach , Ing Petrograd. The center of bpei Hons lias shifted to the southward to the foothills of the Carpathians on the left wins of the Russian front which extends from VSlltchka, I x miles from Cracow and within the outer circle of the Cracow forts, to Neusaudec, seventy miles southeast Of Cracow.' Here the Vustro-C.erm in rfghl is attempting a wide outflankine movement, heavily reinforced with Germcn troops from Belgium. oo |
