by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent

German soilders in Lodz in 1914. Wikimedia Commons, German Federal Archives.

LODZ CAPTURED AT POINT OF BAYONET AFTER WEEK’S FIGHT
Report Says Fighting for a Week Was of the Bloodiest Character
WOODS ARE FILLED WITH DEAD AND DYING
Wrecked Batteries Dead Animals, Death and Destruction Are Everywhere

GERMANS WEAKEN ARMIES IN WEST TO FIGHT RUSSIANS
Abandoning French Town Is Confession Germany Cannot Face Both Foes
FORCED TO PREVENT RUSSIAN INVASION
She Chooses to Lose in France and Belgium in Order to Protect Prussia

LONDON BUSINESS HARD HIT BY WAR; BAD ON CONTINENT
Those Furnishing War Supplies Prosperous, but All Others Knocked Out
BELGIUM SITUATION IS INDESCRIBABLE
Once Wealthy Families and Former Day Laborers Are Alike Just Beggars

KAISER CALLS LAST REGULAR RESERVES TO COLORS DEC. 20
Allies Gaining Slowly on Western Frontier But Resistance Is Stubborn
FIGHTING IN ALSACE IS UNUSUALLY HEAVY
New French Heavy Guns Said to Have Greater Range Than Those of Germans