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Show The official announcement reads as follows' "In the western arena of the war the territory between the seacoast and the Lys yesterday saw nothing more than artillery exohanges At Notre Dame de Lorette, northwest of Arras, a trencfa 200 vards long was taken from the enemy. Here two machine guns ere captured as well as a fe v prisoners. "In the Argonne our troops occupied a few trenches In one place the ground gained bv as during the last few days amount0- to 500 yards. "In the forest north of Sennhelm (Cernayl in Alsace, our attack made good progress Airzstein was taken by us and we also captured two officers offi-cers and forty men of the Alpine Chausseurs "In the eastern arena of the war. tin situation shows no change Kaiser's Troops on Defensive. Petrograd, Jan. 20, via London 3:04 p m. Along a sixty-mile front from Ciechanow. to the south of tdlawa to Dobrzyn, on the Vistula, 12 miles below Block, the Germans are on tho defensive against the Russian advance towards Knst Prussia. During Dur-ing the last thre. days heavy artillery encasements have occurred at various places along this line Meanwhile the struggle is in progress prog-ress for possession of the left bank of the Vistula irom its junction with the Bzura at YViszogrod, westward to Bobryzn, approximately 4a miles Possession Pos-session by the Russians of Wyszogrod and their rooting on the left bank of the Bzura in that vicinity affords them a base for their operations a'aint M" Germans, who are in Provisions of ali kinds, it is staled, , are scarce in Cracow. H The Austrian war office has issued an order calling up all of the land- I sturm men, up to aud Including those j t- aged 60. The order applies through- j.; out the Austrian empire. |