The Kditor takes no responsibility for the assertions of (iermun reporte, Russians have been made prisoners.
The situation in North Poland is unchanged. West of the Vistula the German attacks are progressing. On the eastern bank of the Pilica there were no important events.
The "Deutscher Urherseedienst" states An official Austro-Hungarian bulletin reports that the Russians continue trying to break through the Austro-Hungarian lines on the lower Nida. They made repeated attacks with heavy cannonade upon one point, followed by infantry advances, but all such attacks were repulsed with heavy losses for the Russians.
The weather still prevents extensive operations in Galicia and in the Carpathians, there being fogs and snowfalls, nevertheless the Austrians succeeded in surprising the Russians with success at several points.
The "Hamburger Fremdenblatt" hears from Russia that eighteen generals in important positions are Berlin, Jan. 14.
The German Foreign Office publishes the following report:
Headquarters, Jan, 14.
In the dunes near Nieuport and south-east of Ypres artillery duels have taken place The enemy directed their strongest fire against the baths of Westende, which very soon were completely ruined. The torpedo-destroyers of the enemy disappeared when they received our In continuation of the attack of January 18 northeast of Boissons the Germans again charged on the heights near Vregny in the presence of the Emperor and the plateau too from the enemy. On. the clayey soil soaked by torrential reins trench after trench was storm-until dusk.
The enemy waa chased to the brink of the tableland. Fourteen French officers and 1,190 men were made prisonere, and four guns, four machine-guns and one searchlight taken.
'The total results of the fight on January 12 and 13 north-east of Soissons are 3,150 prisoners, eight' heavy guns, one revolver-gun, 8ix machine-guns and plenty of war material.
To the north and east of Chalons Camp the French again attacked with strong forces. North-east of Chalons Camp, east of Porthos, the French at some places advanced into the German trenches, but they were repulsed by strong counter-attacks and driven back into their former position suffering heavy losses and leaving 160 prisoners in the hands of the Germans.
In the Argonnes and in the Vos-kes nothing of importance has happened. Southeast of Gumbinnen and east of Lodzen, a Ruesian attack has been repulsed. Several hundred No news from Turkey.
Petrograd reports that the Rus-sinns withdrew many Cossack regiments from the front in view of the possibility of riots in the larger towns.
Sofia reporte that strikes have broken out in Petrograd and Mos cow, as a protest against the arrest of the Bocialist membere of the Duma.
The foreign military attaches on the western front have started for the eastern theatre of war.
The paper '"Zuricher Post"" proves that there are falsifications in important documents of the British Bluebook Number 105, Enclosure 3. The report of the French Minister of Foreiga Affairs begins there: "The German army had ite advance poste on our frontier yesterday (Friday)." The document is dated July 20, but Friday was July 31.
The enclosure therefore wae written on August 1. In the second edition the British Government suppressed the date of Encloeure 3 and in the third edition the word "Friday" was suppressed. The text thus quotes: "The German army had its advance posts on our fron-7," but the French "The German army has advance posts on the French frontier."
The British publication, therefore, pretends that German advance posts were on the French frontier on July 29, but the report proves it really was July 31, thus refuting the statement that the Germans crossed the frontier before the ginning of the war. In the same document it is stated that the German preparations began on Saturday, when the Austrian note was handed over, in fact Austria handed over the mote on Thursday, J"'y
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