The Archive · 1915

German Re Reports

the assertions of German repor The Editor takes no ' responsibility for Berlin, Feb. 1.

The Foreign office publishes the following report:

Headquarters, Feb, 11.

In the Argonnes ground was gained by a German attack. Six officers and 307 men have been made prisoners and two machine guns and six smaller guns have been In the middle and southern Vosges several minor local—succesees have also been gained.

On the east Prussian frontier the engagements continued. They were everywhere successful for the Germans, although deep snow hampered the movements of the troops. The results are not yet definitely ceti-mated.

In the Polish theatre, on the right bank of the Vistula, the Germans advanced northwest of Sierpce. The enemy has been repulsed everywhere, Several hundred prisoners have been taken.

On the left bank of the Vistula nothing important.

Berlin, Feb. 10.

Dutch papers report in a tel gram that Mr. Arnold White, the well-known English author, in the London "Daily Express" critic the hushing-up tactics of the Brit Admiralty referring to the concealed loss of the cruiser Glasgow in the battle of Coronel and the lace of a big battle cruiser in the last battle off Heligoland.

The anglophile Stockholm paper "Dragens Nyheter" commenting on the British flag order says, we are a sorrowful witness of the cowardice of the proud British nation, The "Stockholm Dadblad" de clares the flag order to be in violent contrast to vainglorious boasting about British mastery of the sea. The London declaration forbids the hoisting of a falco flag.

The "Stockholm Tidningen" says the flag order was creating absolute lawlessness for the neutrals.

The utterances of the Norwegian and Danish papers are similar.

The London "Daily News" re ports that twenty-one French and British ships are overdue totalling 145,000 tons.

The British Premier states that the British losses in the army up to the 4th of February were 104,000 men.

The Paris "Matin" reports that ons million fugitives from the occupied French territories are in France. More than half of this number are assisted from public funds, The "Ruskija Wjedomosti" reports from Warsaw that the situation is desperate. There is unemployment, lack of foodstuffs, hunger, typhus and other epidemics. A catastrophe is imminent.

The Dublin new Irish paper "Worker", the successor of the suppressed "Irish Worker'? was seized by the police.

The sentinel at the ammunition depot near Sofia has been assaulted probably by Servian spies, The "Daily Express' reports from Liverpool that it is impossible to unload the forty-one vessels with foodstuffs lying in the harbour as working hands are lack The Norwegian press is indignant at the illegal seizure of the Norwegian steamer Christian Bors by the Japanese.

The Prussian Minister of Fin-ano: in the session of the Diet further stated that he was already now sure that the state receipte of 1914 were not below the level of less Prosperous peace years, although the construction of railroads and public buildings has not been dim-finished but increased. He pointed out the fact that the money for these constructions and the war material stays at home and he emphasized the fact that there was sufficient meat and bread.

The- association of the Leipzig fur trade decided to hold the fur messe also this year at Easter. At

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

Your account