| Show WEATHER EATHER CAUSES LULL IN FIGHTING GERMANS LOSE WHEN THEY ATTEMPT ATTEMPT ATTEMPT AT AT- TEMPT RAIDS THROUGH SNOW ON THE FRENCH FRi NT Britons Turn Back Near Ypres While Italians Are Arc Holding Their Own Own British British Take Birch Near Jerusalem Washington Aside Aside from bombardments bombard bombard- ments and reciprocal artillery duels no great battle Is going on in the tile major theatres of or the war 01 On the French front the tile weather Is still sun cold an and this with the tile snow that covers the tile grou ground ad evel everywhere where is Impeding Ing operations operations oper oper- on a n large scale The Tue Germans Saturday night essayed es es- sayed an attack against the tile British northeast of Ypres where for the last several days thays they had hIal been een la laying laing ing down a Cl hea heavy preparatory arn tory artillery fire The Tile attack howe er er was futile for the British ever on the tile watch raked the tile Germans with their theil fire and repulsed them with considerable losses Josses Likewise attempts b by the Germans to cari carry out raids on ott small French posts near neal St St. Quentin and resulted In failure and in addition the enem enemy lost men made prisoners There Is still considerable Intermittent artillery activity along ulong the entire French front In Ill the Italian theatre the tile infantry for the present Is Idle flUe but the tile big guns continue to carr carry out mutual I bombardment against opposing positions positions in the tile hill lull region from the tile Asiago Asiago Asiago Asi- Asi ago plateau eastward to the river rh This activity is particularly pronounced on the tile Monte onte Tomba omba sector sector sec see tor and a few miles to the east on both hoth sides of near the tile UpPer upper up up- per pel reaches of the Piave river The British h forces under General Allenby continue their victorious march against the tue Turks In ill Palestine Consi Considerable fresh progress has hus been heen made north and northwest of Jerusalem Jerusa Jerusa- lem in ill the tile occupation of Birch about twelve miles miJe to the north where here the Turks offered stU stubborn res resistance re ye- s stance but finally were o overcome New Years Year's day was the tile twelve hun hundred dred and fifth day lay of the war war |
