Show a I to Have Christ asi Ch Cheer er Between Engagements l Bv By y Lulled United Pr Prem I to 10 The Tee Telegram m LONDON Dec 23 On On Monday 1 I Kaiser Wilhelms Wilhelm's troops will be caroling carol carol- ing log about peace on earth and good goodwill goodwill goodwill will to men and and throwing trench bombs between verses British Tommies Tommies Tommies Tom Tom- mies will take a bite of plum pudding Ii and then exercise their pitching arms with hand grenades French i will sip their Christmas champagne between feeding the steel food for I German consumption Monday will be Christmas in I the trenches for every everyone one of the fighting fight ing soldiers except the Russian and Russian and I by their calendar it will only be December December December De De- De- De I cember 21 The Russian Christmas I will not come until January 7 according according accord accord- ing to the reckoning of other nations i I Perhaps it was this that was reflected re reo re- re fleeted in the worlds world's battle news today today today to to- day when it appeared the fiercest of all fighting was taking place far on the I eastern front in Far from being animated from any I holiday spirit however the Germans I were thrusting great masses of men roen i forward masses forward masses that so far outnumbered outnumbered the Russians that the latter were compelled to give ground although fighting savagely Petrograd admitted admitted admit admit- ted the retirement but counterbalanced counterbalanced with further news indicating that the tile German rush northward in Rumania has been stopped and in some places the German lines forced hack back The kind of calm that means unceasing unceasing un ceasing hurling of hand grenades and e bombardment by artillery was in effect apparently along the whole French British front in the west i None of the official statements from I I belligerent capitals indicated any infantry in in- inI I fan fantry try assaults a I In Macedonia heavy snow and winters winter's winters winter's win win- ter's cold has apparently congealed active fighting except that by artil artil- lery The same frozen in report II might be made of the Italian Italian- Italian Austrian battle front where naturally because I I of the altitude the cold was greatest I I of that on all fronts I I cm on on the tile arid plains of Egypt and Palestine British troops I j held a front against the Turks El Ell j Arish on the Mediterranean side was I in British hands again after two years' years I occupation by trie the enem enemy and and it was I I believed the British occupying forces would press still further forward I against the Turks I Despite the constant bomb throwing and intermittent infantry cl clashes on OZI I the western fr front nt the British Tommies Tommies Tom Torn Tomi i l mies will have their Christmas Long lines hues of motors have been carrying Christmas packages to the men in the trenches for days lays Every soldier from I the colonies as well as from England proper received some sort of gift or orI remembrance remembrance-if if not from home then I from one of tile the numerous societies organized for this purpose |