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Show RUSSIANS GAIN FOOTING AFTER FIERGEATTAGK Ridg-e of Magyaros, North of Uz, Captured; Strong Artillery Fire Reported Report-ed in Carpathians. GERMANS REPORT BRITISH REPULSE Attempt to Advance Made on Both Sides of Wieltje, in the Ypres Bends, in Early Morning. The Teutonic allies in the Dob-nidja Dob-nidja region of Rumania are still hammering hard the Russian and Rumanian lines in the north. The town of Isakishe, on the east hank of the Danube, has been captured by the invaders, who are also keeping keep-ing up their operations in the region re-gion of Tultcha, In Galicda and up in the Carpathian Carpa-thian mountains consiUerable activity ac-tivity still prevails, with the Rus-" sians the aggressors. In the Carpathians Car-pathians the Russians have captured cap-tured several Austro-G-erman positions, posi-tions, and further south, near the transylvania - Rumania frontier, j have taken a ridge from them. The third Christmas of the war, except in Rumania, finds the warring war-ring forces well entrenched and using their artillery as the chief method of warfare. Only small infantry in-fantry engagements are reported from any of the fronts. BERLIN, Dee.. 24, via SayviMe. The war office today Issued the following statement: Western theater: On both sides of the Wleltje, in the Ypres bends, English detachments, after strong: artillery ar-tillery fire, attacked our positions at dawn. They were repulsed. On the Somme front the weather was mostly bad. The firing activity was small. Eastern theater: Front of Prince Leopold of Bavaria There were no Important events. Front of Archduke Joseph In the snow-covered Carpathian forest the artillery firing was temporarily increased in-creased in Ludova and Kirlibaba sectors. sec-tors. North of Uz the Russians again launched an attack. After an unsuccessful unsuc-cessful advance, they gained a footing foot-ing on the ridge of Magyaros. Rumanian theater: Army group of Field Marshal von Mackensen By the operations of our Dobrudja army the enemy has been pushed into the ' northwestern corner of the country. ' The northern bank of the Danube, on both sides of Tulcea, is under the fire of our cannon. Macedonian theater: Between the Yardar and Doiran lake there was a strong English fire on the German and Bulgarian positions. In the evening i hours attacks by artillery battalions j were sanguinarily repulsed. GERMAN MILITARY CRITIC REVIEWS WAR SITUATION BERLIN", Dec. 24, via wireless to Say-ville. Say-ville. The military critic of the Overseas News agency writes: In spite of the continued Russo-Rumanian Russo-Rumanian attacks on a 30-ktlomeler front in the wooded Carpathians and in eastern Transylvania, the fighting line there has remained unchanged during this desperate offensive, which has now been going on for four weeks. Small Russian advantages gained in the Oituz valley are counterbalanced counter-balanced by local successes by the central powers' troops. The armies of Generals von Arz and von Koevess maintain The pass heights which they conquered during the great thrust at the beginning of October. On the Gyergeo front, however, in the middle of the Carpathian angle, the situation changed favorably for the central powers in consequence of the advance in eastern YVallachta. Rumanian infantry and Russian Cossacks, Cos-sacks, under General Averescu's command, attempted to detain the pressure of the Austro-Gernian troops. On the west front the fighting activity ac-tivity in the last few days did not pass the usual pressure of trench warfare. war-fare. The French advance northeast of Verdun, planned on a great scale and carried out tenaciously, sureiv brought them a local success, but it did not chance the situation on the rest of the front. Already on December lfi the French attack came to a standstill north of Besonvaux village. On December IS and 15 there was only fighting about Chamhrettes farm, and since then the situation has been calm. This great attack, which had been planned as France's answer to the German peace proposals and had been designed as such by the French commander, com-mander, came to a standstill, as did the previous ones. On the Pom me front there was calm, interrupted only by a temporary tempo-rary Increase in the artillerv fire when the weather was favorable. On (Continued on Page Seven.) RUSSIANS MHN 10 CAPTURE BIDGE (Continued from Page One.) the rest of the front there were only patrol actions and artillery fire. The situation of our adversaries on the third war Christmas Is not different differ-ent from that of one and two years ago. To be sure, the means of fighting fight-ing have been Increased in a gigantic fashion, but the relation of the forces has remained identically the same. |