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Show ARTILLERY COMBATS RMFIiIfM I BETWEEN THE GERMANS AND ALLIES I Spirited Cannonading Continues in Vicinity of Nieuport and EH Around Ypres Germans Defeat French Troops in De- mSti termined Fighting Northeast of Soissons Heights HS of Uregny Are Taken Trench After Trench Hfi Stormed Until the French Are Driven Back. K& BRILLIANT FEAT OF KAISER'S ARMIES I Fourteen French Officers and 1,130 Men Taken Prisoners and Bp Four Cannon, Four Machine Guns and a Searchlight Cap- Mafe tured Under Eyes of Uppermost War Lords, Is Ber- BBl lin Report Russians Attack in Force in East Bjfj Prussia German Attacks West of the Hf Vistula Continue. WS Amsterdam, Jan. 14, via London, 5:30 p. m. Trie H Telegraaf, in its issue of today, says it has learned that British H$$ aviators last Monday dropped bombs on the German positions Hgjj at Antwerp. The damage inflicted has not been learned. Hi Paris. Jan 14. 2 45 p. m The French war office gave out this afternoon af-ternoon an official communication as follows: "In Belgium the firing of our artillery artil-lery was interfered with by the fog. Nevertheless the cannonading yesterday yester-day was very spirited in the vicinity of IftelTpoTt an'd around' Tpres. -Certain detachments of Belgian troops, blew up, at a point to the southeast of Stuyyekneskerke, the buildings on a farm which were serving the enemy as a depot for his ammunition. "Between the Lys and the Oise. in the region of Lens, our artillery' was successful In dispersing a group of German pioneers on the outskirts of the hamlet of Angres. and it bombarded bombard-ed effectively the German trenches to the southeast of the chapel of Notre Dame de Lorette. "To the north of Soissons there was determined fighting all day yesterday. yes-terday. The engagement was localized local-ized to a section of ground to the north of Crouy. We hold only the first slopes of these bills. On our left In this field our counter attack made slight progress, but without succeeding suc-ceeding In recording a material advance. ad-vance. On the center wo retained our positions around the village of Crouy in spite of the repeated efforts of the enemy to dislodge us, but on the east, in front of Y"egny, we were obliged to yield Flood Carries Away Bridges. "The continued flood stage of the river Aisne has carried away several of the regular bridges ,is well as some of the temporary foot bridges which we threw across the river. The lines of communication for our troops were consequently made uncertain. Under these conditions we established ourselves our-selves on the south bank of the river in the region between Crouy and Missy, with bridge heads on the north bank in our possession. "Along the remainder of the front on the river Alsne, there was yesterday yester-day nothing more than artillery exchanges. ex-changes. "In Champagne, the region of Perthes, Per-thes, continued to be the scene of local lo-cal engagements for the possession of German trenches on the second and third line of defense. To the north of Beausejour we blew up some of the enemy's positions to make lm-possible lm-possible his laying of mines. The Germans, believing they were being attacked, manned their trenches. We then opened a violent artillery and infantry in-fantry tire on these positions "There is nothing to report on the rest of the front.' German Official Statement. Berlin. Jan 14 (Bj wireless to London. 3:45 p. m.) The war office today gave out the following statement state-ment "In the western theatre of war In the dunes near Nieuport and southwest south-west of Ypres, artillery combats are going on. Tho enemy directed an extremely strong fire on VWstende. w hich they soon will have entireh destroyed. de-stroyed. Their torpedo boats disappeared disap-peared quickly af soon as they received re-ceived our fire Germans Drive Back French Troops. "In continuation of their activities on January S northeast of Soissons. our troops again made; an attack on the heights of Vregny and cleared this elevated plain of the enemy. In a pouring rain and deeply sodden clay, trench after trench was taken by a storm until after dark and the enemy was driven back to the border of the elevated plain Fourteen French officers of-ficers and 1,130 men were taken prisoners pris-oners and four cannon, four machine Kiins and a searchlight were captured 1 -a brilliant feat for our troops under 1 the very eye." of their uppermost war j lords. I "Northeast of the camp of Chalons. the French attacked again yesterday 8r& In the morning and afternoon with iBw strong forces, to the east of Perthes IEni They penetrated, at certain places, Hp our trenches, but were repulsed by BE energetic counter attacks and driven 'Hh back with heavy losses into their own H positions, leaving 160 prisoners iu HP our hands. In the Argonne and the Vosge IF nothing of Interest has occurred- : "In the eastern theatre of war. Rus- K sian attacks to the southeast of Gum- w binnen (East Prussia) and to the east p of Loetzen have been repulsed and many hundreds of prisoners have been taken. "The situation in northern Poland R Is the same. jB; 'Our attacks west of the Vistula nre being continued. Nothing of im- 'Importance 'Im-portance has occurred on the eastern M bank of the Pilica." m Amsterdam. Jan 14. via London, .-j ; lj 6 p m. There has been received jBT here an official communication given K out at Constantinople by the Turkish Be authorities, as follows: K; Assisted by Persian troops our K army Is steadily advancing in Azerbai- K jan province, Persia, In order to de- B . I liver the country' from the Russian KvK voke. IB?"''" "We have had further notable sue- K :, cesses, occupying advanced positions K of the Russians in the vicinity of Ta- H briz. ' "A number of tribesmen of the Brit- Bv I Ish army of occupation In Egypt have Bff . surrendered to our vanguard," ft.:'' ' London. Jan. 14. 12 15 p. m. Like B - the stubbornlv contested battle in the ,mk? early days of the war on which hinged BK." the German occupation of West Flan- BSfc'l ders the struggle for the knoll or BKt.1; ground northeast or Soissons, known as "Spur 132." still remained undeel- BV, ded todav. according to information HK received in London. The Germans, BBh. however by their counter attacks, ap- ! pear to be in the better position to B$ the eastward of the spur. BB7S In view or the relatively small Bg' amount of gTound gained tho loeBes have been heavy on both sides, but WM the Germans show no signs of giving HEjtfr up their attempts to retake the hill- BKi Iu fact, It Is said that General von BSfK Kluck himself is now in command of the German forces, which would seem BBk to lift the battle out of the ordinary Bk run of conflicts along the western E battle front & Further east near Perthes, where HH another sharp fight is still in prog- M ress the situation has not changed H0 materially, judging from dispatches B received here. BbI In the eastern theatre of the war. HH in the absence of any radical develop- ments in Poland and Galicia, the BH Turkish operations hold the fore- BBS ground of Interest with the much her- MB aided but equally doubted reports of HH a Turkish advance Into Egypt that s HBd said to bo virtually ready, and with HH the occupation by Turkey of TabrU El In the Russian sphere of influence m IKgK Persia, , Bxfl Tbis city of 200.000 population ap- W parently was taken without fighting. iBfl In view of the fact that the small Hffi Russian garrison, maintained in Tab- 'Mm riz in times of peace, had been witn- BV1 drawn, it Is believed that the suffer- BJal ers bv the occupation if any are the 'HK Armenians, whom the Kurds, constl- HH tuting the Turkish advance guard, arc BBbI alwavs ready to attack BBSn Today's dispatches from Potrograu eav that the Turkish Invasion of Per- sla continues and that the Turks are BBjBj penetrating farther into the country. H The Russians still claim to hold the BH UI,Per hand in the fighting In the Caucasus, in the vicinity of Kara-Ur- BS ?an but the lack of details suggest BJB :hat the battle, which has now been BBK n progress for seven days, has not BBsl ol resulted decisively for either side. |