The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-12-31
Official Reports Of Allies and
Germans Claim Slight
Gains for Each.
RUSSIANS REpULSE TEUTONs
Fetrosrad Report Says kaiser's Troops
Suffered Heavy Losses In
Poland and Are Now On
the Defensive.

| London, Dec. 29.-The battle lines
In the East and West have undergone
only infinitesimal changes during the
day. The French and German reports
agree that the Germans have captured
a section of trenches near Hollebeke,
south OF Ypres. The French assert
that the Germans gave up trenches on
the first line, to the extent of about
800 or 900 yards in the Lens region,
further east, while unsuccessful dem
onstrations have been made from both
sides at various points along the ex-
tended lines.
| The reports OF the numbers of
wounded both armies are sending back
from the lines in Belgium appear to
show that the fighting on Christmas
| in that country was the f1ercest of the
past month Correspondents in the
rear say the Belgians as a result of
five days sapping captured nearly
5000 Germans with only small losses
to themselves
Russians RepuIse Germans.
Petrograd, Dec. 29.-The following
statement from the general staff OF
the Russian communicative was
issued last night:
"On the 9th there was no import
Vistula and the Fiiica rivers. The
German attacks were everywhere re-
pulsed The Germans suffered heavy
losses, especially in a vain attack they
made to the southeast of Sknernie-
vice. Between the Pilica and the Up
per Vistula the enemy has now adopt
ed the defensive
Our troops stormed the village of
Szitniki, which was stubbornly de-
Tended by the Austrians. The enemy
has definitely evacuated the left bank
of the Nida.
British Raid Cuxhaven.
London, Dec. 28.--Assisted by light
cruisers. destroyers and submarines,
seven British naval airmen, plotting
seaplanes, made a daring attack
Christmas Day on the German naval
base at Cuxhaven, at the mouth of the |
Elbe. Six Of the airmen returned safe |
ly, but the seventh, Commander Hew-
lett, it is feared, has been lost, as his
machine was found of Helgoland.
wrecked. What damage was done by |
the bombs thrown by the attacking |
party could OF be ascertained, but
the German report of the affair says |
that the raid was fruit1eRS
Austrians Fall Back.
The Russians apparently have
gained ascendency over the Austrians |
in South Poland and Galicia The Aus.
TRANS themselves admit the loss of |
the towns Of Jaslo and Krosno, on the |
South -Galician hallway, which their
army from across the Carpathians re-
captured week or more ago.
Capture German Guns.
The strength of the German lines
of defense along the western battle
front is indicated by q semi-official
note issued at Paris in reference to
artillery captured by the French in
the attacks on German trenches in the
Perthes region on December "a.
The note says when these trenches
were taken the Frnech gained posses.
sion of two quick firers, several siege
guns mounted on carriages, one siege
mortar of 245 millimetres, one gun of
fifty millimetres with an armored Gu
pola, and a revolving gun of thirty.
seven millimetres.
Fought on Christmas.
London, Dec. 26-Christmas brought
no rest to the embattled European ar
mics. 1t found the Russians still
fighting desperately in the SHOWS of
Poland against the fierce attacks of
the German and Austrian Allies;
Przemysl still in the grip Of the in.
vading army; the French making spas.
modic thrusts against the long Ger
man lines OF trenches in northern and
northeastern France, and the British
and Belgians engaged in almost hand.
to-hand warfare against the German
trenches in West Belgium.
In Flanders things were generally : :
quiet" says the German bulletin. The
French report speaks of intermittent y
artillery firing there. The French
claim several successes along the cen. =
ter and eastern lines while the Ger.
mans declare that they have taken
the second British trenches in Bel.
GUM. Both sides assert that they =
have repulsed attacks at various points :,
which indicates that the feeling pro- =
cess Is under way all along the lines. :,
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