The Petrograd correspondent. of! the "Daily Telegraph" writing on October 23 gives the following vivid account of the defeat of the Germans at Warsaw.
The Russians have won a great victory over the German main foreea, which are in full retreat. The force now beaten, as I have
many's beet army against Russi said in previous messages, is Ge Ger Tt was operating towards Warsaw between the Bzura and Pilitza, confluents of the Vistula. South of the Pilitza River the German forces are still holding their positions, but this is merely a matter of time and the convenience of the Russians, since the latter are now on the flank and partly to the rear of the other German armies. In their retreat before the Russian forces the Germans abandoned their wounded and evacuated a strongly entrenched position where they were certainly expected to make a stand.
The Grand Duke Nicholas does not apply the term victory to his splendid success against the German main armies. Civilians, however, will not hesitate to term the German defeat a rout. science which the accurate Germans bring to bear upon field works when leisure is given them, were abandoned without a thought of defending them. Their wounded were left lying where they fell and the whole German Army north of the Pilitza River is in full treat, hard pressed by the Russians. This is a happy termination of the hammer-and-tongs fighting, which has continued for an entire week, night and day.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.