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Show : DESPERATE AND SANGUINARY BATTLE 5 1 STILL RAGES IN EASTERN WAR ZONE il I Fighting on Russian Frontier Fast Growing in Intensity and I J FerocityNoise of Cannon Heard 36 Miles 800,000 4 Men With 3,500 Cannon Incessantly Engaged j t Russians Slowly Gaining Ground Berlin Re- ' I Ports Enemy Driven Out of Czartorysk K II Churchyard Muscovite Troops Tear Down Barbed Wire Entangle- P ments Laid 24 Deep and ? H Heavily Charged. ; jj Paris, Jan. 7, 1 :55 p. m. Irregular Bulgarian troops have J clashed with Greek gendarmes between Popovoselo and g Paviania, according to a Havas dispatch from Saloniki under j Thursday's date. The Greek authorities, the dispatch adds, j I will take measures to prevent bands of Bulgarian irregulars I from crossing the Greek frontier. IB Pans, Jan. 6, 5:15 p. m. Fighting f on the Russian frontier is fast grow-j grow-j ing In intensity and assuming great I ferocity, says the Petrograd correal corre-al apondent of the Havas agency, in a c dispatch filed Wednesday. Dispatches ,J x from Kiev, declare that the noise of - 1. cannon can. be heard along a distance ak I of 36 miles and that windows in all in i the villages in this region have been irijjji fj broken by the concussions. The bat-I'ojs. bat-I'ojs. X tie is racing with particular fury on U5fc ft the Tarnopol-Trembowla front, where itaSi 1 more than SOO.OOO men with 3,500 can- r non are incessantly engaged Long "ij S Austro-Gennan Red Cross trains are corp leaving tills front daily for more re- nfijjl m mote and thinly populated towns aajtb il where hospitals have been organized, riisli A Russians Slowly Gaining. aK ' Wounded Russian officers report allS that consequences of this battle al- mafc i , ready are being shown in certain sec- Us ; i tors by the blowing in of first8line aryj i , German trenches, and the slow but telji y irresistible progress of Russian tfor- boxj ces. The same officers tell of enor- iimi ' i mous difficulties the Russians have f! had to surmount on this front, where ; entanglements of barbed wire are oft- t en laid twenty four deep and charged lOAJl l "with powerful electric currents sup- "Qb fl plied from stations especially erected. sesi As Immediate approach to these eu- jd?6 tanglements is impossible, the Rus- ed.5 sian soldiers have invented the follow- Bun i hig method of surmounting the diffi- irgli h culty: Good marksmen fling ropes e fn jf- with' hooks at the ends overthe barb: Lut) 1 ed 'Ire, then pull until they have a mi I broken one of the lines of wire and r n continue the method until the whole J 1 entanglement is removed. mJL I jufli Hot Artillery Fighting. deB ': Paris, Jan. 6, 10:06 p. m. The fol- it,'si i j lowing official statement was issued ituta ! tonight by the Belgian Avar office: s.ii "Artillery fighting has been very , foifa i active, especially in the regions of i i m I Dixmude, Noordschoote and Steen- nyj? stratete. Our batteries are success- jned! fully opposing the enemy's bomb fri throwers in action In the region of e-J? Poesele." tJ I Turkish War Report. jM i Constantinople, Jan. 7. via London, JS f 4:40 p. m. The following statement -Tj i was issued at tlic war office today: JTW t "Artillery fighting, which at times ?i 4 became heavy, continued on our right "tin l 'inj? and in the center. An enemy 'infill jj cruiser and monitor bombarded the jite environs of Altchetepe and then with- rf f drew. Our artillery silenced the how- .nH.vJ,, 1 ilzers of a hostile field battery and oD.'fc f sucessfully bombarded a camp of the o' i enemy at Seddul Bahr. rffi I Turks Bombard Landing Places, imr J 'Our batteries on the Anatolian 4n,ei i coast bombarded the landing places A 1 at Seddul Bahr and Tekke "Burnu "' a V Lieutenant Boddike attacked a French J '& aeroplane which flew over the straits, alIc3 1 nnd brought it down on the Anatolian i j coast, near Akbanoa. The French air- , man vas found dead. The aeroplane ; may be repaired easily. 1 ! "In the Anafarta sector we found ,j 2.000 cases of Infantry ammunition, I! 130 wagons and a buried machine JJ gun.' l m f Review of War Situation. $M London, Jan. 7, 11:50 a. m. Ac- jjH cording to official advices from Vi- ja ft enna, the fighting on the eastern front 19 : has decreased in violence, the Rus- 9 i sianx having censed to attack with lH I v5gor etween tne Pripet and the Bas- t m 1 sarabian frontier. 3 1 The only ain officiallT amiounced .1 for the Russians yesterday was at JS1 Czartorysk, the scene of many san- ;"jBK guinary struggles', where It is said the jl Austi-ians were driven from the cerae- H Any advance in this region will -nil. reaten Kovel, one of the strongest 'Sis Austro-Geramn positons. It is be- M Heved that even though no further r I I Bain should be made, Russia's forces . ffi have attained a position which will I j give the nation a degree of power in J ' Balkan affairs it has not had since ; 1 3 armies were driven back from the I I Carpathians. 'i f Allies Are Threatened. i The Teutonic armies still threaten 5 C to expel the French and British from $ i their Macedonian positions, but no 1 g Joranl movo has been detected thus 1 i , far in that direction. Strong Turk- - , f h forces are said to be concentrat- ! ing on the Thracian frontier of Greece ft ' I and it is suggested that the Turks ' I I ttay attempt to make good some of tne territorial losses they suffered : I during the Balkan wars J The British public is still concerned ; chiefly with the domestic crisis. Not- withstanding the heavy majority for I the compulsion bill on first reading 1 M i !n tne house of commons, the press is speculating on the possibility of a breakup of the political truce with " j ll ' a general election aB the final chan-y " m ler of tne controversy. i :" A British submarine was sunk yes- 0Q terday off the Dutch coast. The ad- m miralty announcement of the sinking does not state the cause or give the name of tho submarine. The entire crew of thirty-three was rescued. Previous statements that no warning warn-ing was given the liner Persia and the blow that sent her to the bottom came from an unseen source, are confirmed con-firmed in affidavits from twenty-one survivors obtained by United States Consul Garrels at Alexandria. The consul so advised the state department depart-ment today. A Rome dispatch says Serbian refugees refu-gees by the thousands are flocking to the Serbian legation and the various vari-ous consulates m Italy with requests that they be permitted to join a new army in an effort, with the help of Serbia's allies, to win back their V.UUIHI J . Berlin Reports Russians Repulsed. There is no Indication in official reports re-ports or news dispatches of marked activity on any of the war fronts except ex-cept along the line In the east from Volhynia, southward to Bessarabia. The most notable development reported report-ed is the driving back of the Russians in the neighborhood of Czartorysk, Volhynia, Berlin declaring they were expelled from the church yard position posi-tion north of the town which they recently re-cently took. Russian Driven From Position. Berlin, Jan. 7, via London, 2-35 p. m. An official statement given out today by the German army headquarters headquart-ers says' 'Western, theater: There is nothing to report. "Eastern theater: The Russian detachment de-tachment which yesterday took possession pos-session of a church yard to the north of Czartorysk was driven out during the night 'Balkan theater: The situation is unchanged. Amsterdam. Jan. 7, via London, 5 n. m The accident to the British submarine sub-marine was due to the fact that it grounded and sprang a leak, having taken the wrong course off Noord-hinden. Noord-hinden. The crew has been interned in the naval barracks. |