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Show German Armies Are Again Striking At I Warsaw; Most Desperate Fighting Is On I I RUSSIAN SWEEP THROUGH AUSTRIAN f CROWN LAI CONTINUES UNCHECKED Rumanians Are Preparing to Cast Their Lot With the Allies Austro-Hungary Facing Critical Situation Conflict in East Growing More Serious Servia Is Attacking Dual Monarchy With Renewed Vigor Germans Hack Forward at Some Points in Poland and Russians Drive Them Back With Bayonets. ! k GERMANS INFLICT HEAVY LOSSES ON FRENCH Twelve Hundred Prisoners Taken in the Argonne French Are Driven From Town in Alsace Russians Sink a Turkish Transport Hard Earned Gains are Re- ported by the Allies French Take Three Lines 9 of German Trenches, Silence Mine Throwers and Artillery and Inflict In-flict Notable Losses. Paris, Jan. 9, 5:50 a. m. "The Russians have entered Transylvania," telegraphs the Petrograd correspondent of the Matin. The Austrians have hastily evacuated the whole of Bukowina," he adds, "leaving open new roads for the Rus- j sian troops into the Hungarian provinces, particularly in the j direction of the city of Maramaros-Sziget, capital of the county of Maramaros, at the foot of the Carpathians, 21 5 miles north of Buda Pest." V Paris. Jan. 9, 2:40 p m. Successes Success-es of greater or less importance at arious points along the battle line in Prance axe claimed in the off it i;il report on the progress of the fighting given out by the French war office this afternoon. A German victory is admitted in Alsace where the troops of Emperor William reoccupied Burnhaupt-Le-Haut In one place the French gain consisted con-sisted of three linos of German trenches; at another they advanced five hundred yards, elsewhere lesser Hi1, nnin Virt TtnniAn r,f Tiri c 1 1 t n n Q n T' O recorded. The French artillery also has been active with results declared to bo advantageous. The French war office tbis after-1 after-1 noon gave the following official an nouncement. "To the south of Ypres we have damaged the trenches of the enetn and reduced to silence the mine throwers of the Germans. "In the region oT Arras and in the j- - vicinity of Amiens there have been artillery engagements resulting advantageously ad-vantageously for our batteries Three Lines of Trenches Captured. "In the region of Souplr yesterday morning we occupied very brilliantly Hill 132. Three times during the day the enemy delivered violent counter attacks. Each time they were repulsed. re-pulsed. Our gain Is represented by three lines of German trenches along a front of 600 metres The enemy, not having been able to recapture that which they had lost, bombarded Soissons and set fire to the palace of jcustice. "To the south of Laon and Craonnc our artillery' demolished a camp of huts covering some machine guns, re duced to silence the artillery of the enemy and destroyed some trenches. "In the region of Perthes the enemy delivered an attack to which we responded re-sponded Immediately by a counterat-tack counterat-tack This movement on our part permitted us not only to retain our positions at 'Hill 200,' west of Perthes, Per-thes, but also to take possession of 400 vards of the trenches of the en-b en-b rmv "between Hill 200 and the village of Perthes Furthermore a direct attack, delivered by us on Perthes at the same time we were making our counter attack on 'Hill 200'. made us masters of the village. We installed ourselves in Perthes, and we have advanced ad-vanced bevond the village- Boundary. Our total gain in this locality is more than 500 yards. Along all the front between Rhelnis and the Argonne our artillery has inflicted notable losses on the enemy en-emy This has been attested by prisoners pris-oners In the Argonne wo were subjected sub-jected on our right to a lively attack : from the enemv to which wo replied with a counter attack which brought Tl Ut back to our point of departure "In the Woevre district to the north weal of Flirey in the forest of Ailly and in the forest of LePretre we made some progress. in the region of Cernay we maintained main-tained our position. Further to the south, the enemy strongly reinforced repocupied Burnhaupt-Le-Haut, at the ! expense of heavy losses " J Petrograd. Jan. 8 An official communication com-munication given out by the general . staff tonight says: "On the left bank of the Vistula front, at the villages of Soukha, Me-tarie Me-tarie and Moghely, the fighting has as-' as-' snmed a character moro and more desporate. The Germans, notwith standing the great losses they have sustained, continue obstinate attacks at different points In many places the enemy succeeded succeed-ed in occupying provisionally certain of our advanced trenches, but our vigorous vig-orous counter attacks, followed ordinarily ordi-narily by bayonet charges, compelled the Germans to let go their hold. Thus in the region of Metarle and Moghely, on January 7, we drove away the enemy who rushed our advanced trenches, capturing seven officers and more than 100 men "In Bukowina we occupied, on Jan- MQrV i 1' i in nnl n n 0 (in Rnfenwlna injnr the Hungarian border) after an advance ad-vance and lighting lasting eight days Our troops during this fighting covered cov-ered more than 120 versts (about 80 miles I and finally crossed the mountain moun-tain chain at the frontier between Bukowina and Hungary. During these operations we captured more than one thousand Austrians and also took rich spoils of war. "On other parts of our front there is nothing worthy of note. "On the Black sea, on January 3, i our torpedo boats discovered a Turkish Turk-ish cruiser of the Medjidieh t pe, followed fol-lowed by a transport, sailing east and approaching Sinope. on the north coast of Aaia Minor. Seeing themselves them-selves pursued, the Turkish vessels turned west in flight, but we followed and sank the transport " German Official War Statement. Benin. Jan f, via wireless to London, Lon-don, 4.05 p. m. The German official statement given out at the war office today says that French forces have been repulsed with heavy losses at a point northeast of Solssons and al?o near Perthes, that in the Argonne, the Germans took 1200 prisoners and were otherwise successful and that near Flirey, they blew up a trench held by the French, killing all the occupant oc-cupant a. Also the French have driven driv-en from Burnhaupt Le-Haut. In 1-sace 1-sace Tn the east the Germans on January 7 took 20(H) prisoners and seven machine ma-chine guns. The following official communica-lion communica-lion was given out today at army headquarters "On the western front there have been heavy rains which seemed more like cloudbursts than anything else Thunder was heard all day yesterday The Lys at some places has overflowed over-flowed its banks. Several attacks of the enemy to the northeast of Someone were beaten beat-en off with severe loss to the French. "A French attack also near Perthes, north of Chalons, was repulsed with severe loss to the enemy. Enemy Is Beaten Back. "In the eastern section of the Argonne Ar-gonne our troops successful stormed French positions and took 1200 prisoners prison-ers and some throwers and a bronze mortar. A Lorraine battalion and the Hessian Landwebr particularly distinguished distin-guished themselves in this fight. One of our advanced trenches, which we at the time were not occupying near Flirey, was occupied by the French and at once was blown up. All of the French oecupants were killed. French Driven Out. "Both west and south of Sennheim (Cernay) there is nothing to report The French have been driven out of Burnhaupt-Le-Haut and the trenches there into their old positions. "Some 1900 prisoners fell Into our hands here. "On the eastern front bad weather continues The number of prisoners (taken on the 7th of January by us w as 2CiO Also se en machine guns I were captured " Germans Crowding on Warsaw. London, Jan. 9, 12:33 p. m. Coincident Coinci-dent with their new movement from the north, the Germans have resumed their violent offensive operations to I the west of Warsaw. They are back I ing their way forward at some points, only to be in turn driven out from their positions by Russian bayonet attacks at-tacks This leaves the situation In Poland as a whole about what It was j a fortnight ago. Meanwhile the Russian rweep through the Austrian crown land of Bukowina continues unchecked, according ac-cording to news dispatches reaching London and this army is expected by j Rritisb observers soon to be well over the mountains forming the boundary into Hungary. Scrvia Attacks With Renewed Vigor. Servia, with her army more or less rehabilitated, is described in London Lon-don as attacking the dual monarchy from the south with renewed vigor. Austria declares that the latest Servian Ser-vian attempts have been repulsed. Nevertheless, credence is given In England to the reports that Germany is planning to throw troops to the assistanee of her ally in a third attempt at-tempt to crush the country of the Serbs. One hundred thousand Prussians Prus-sians and 300,000 Austrians. it is said, are to be employed in this campaign, j the Teutonic allies., deeming such a I moe imperative in view of the grave situation in the Balkans. Austrians Face Critical Situation. The present position of Austria-Hungary, Austria-Hungary, according to observers who today are giving expression to their views, is most critical Threatened from the east and from the south and with Rumania preparing to cast her lot with the allies, the war is being brought to her front door. This is in Bharp contrast to the comparative isolation iso-lation from strife which Germany continues to enjoy with only small strips of territory in Fast Prussia and Alsace occupied by her antagon iFts. Now more than ever before, therefore followers of the conflict in England look to the eastern arena lor immediate developments of importance. im-portance. In Belgium and France the allies are making some hard earned gains and the Germans also here and there are making progress. The opposing forces are so nearly evenly matched and the positions of their trenches are such that sapping and bomb throwing must be relied on chiefly to bring any gains; and barring a duels, this form of warfare doubtless will persist along the line in Flanders and in France until the weather im proves the ground and permits extensive ex-tensive infantry operations. Soveral days have passed since the first Russian Rus-sian victories over the Turks in the ( aucasus but the Turks have not yet admitted any reverses in this territory. |