Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-12-01 | Page 5 | Kaiser's Troops Are Freezing

KAISER'S TROOPS ARE FREEZING I Many Soldiers Have Frozen Hands and Feet Take Wraps From Peasants. Petrograd, via London. Dec. 1. The coi.dltion of German prisoners captured cap-tured in the vicinity of Lodz is said to resemble that of the French troops curing Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. Mos-cow. Many of them have frozen uands and feet They were wrappd in blankets and shawls taken from the peasants. One private wore a woman's fur I wrap. The prisoners say that before their capture their courage was kept I up by statements that the quarter-i quarter-i master was bringing warm clothes, which would be distributed in a few dayc. The reported use by the Germans of uouasteries, chapels and other public pub-lic buildings in captured towns as barracks, stables and gun stations Is explained by the prisoners is due to the belief that private buildings had been mined General Mackenzen Awaits Aid. Reports from the froijt are that reinforcements re-inforcements sent for the army of General Mackenzen at Lodz are tak-Inu tak-Inu up positions along the Vistula r.vrr where the German resistance secmi to have been least effective The apparent purpose of this move is to hinder the Russian enveloping movement until the muin German column col-umn is extricated from the lino Wch runs from SLrykow through Grslers to Szadek. Semi-official reports from Galicla Indicate that th Russian advance along the foothills of the Carpathian mountains has reached a point due south of Cracow, thus surrounding the city from the northeast and sou:h.