, 1914-12-12
KILOGRAMS.
81. CROOK STATION.
lGOat5DueI from Lth Dd0el

Batoum, where the Turkish forces from
Trebizond attempted to prevent the Rus
slams landing, but the guns of the trans
ports, cooperating with the Russian infan-
try and frontier guards, routed them with
heavy losses. In the Kielce district of Po-
land 2 German trains, loaded with pyroxylin
shells, collided and we're completely destroy
ed, there being no survivors,.
A despatch from Amsterdam states that
the Kaiser is suffering from pneumonia,
nervous depression and exhaustion from
exposure and overwork, He suffers from
continual headaches and is violent towards
those around him. His doctors advise
against his return to the front.
"A French official communique states
oDuring Tuesday there was artillery fighting
from the sea coast to the Lys. All the posi-
tons won by us during the past two days
have been organized and consolidated. In
the region of the Aishe artillery exchanges
and fphtings have resulted advantageOusly
for us In Argonne the activity Of our
artillery and the fighting by our Infantry
have resulted in appreciable gains for us,
and several German trenches have been
occupied. We have progressed along the
entire front, except at one point, where the
enemy blew up one trench with a mine. On
the heights of the Meuse our artillery
showed itself distinctly the master of the
artillery of the enemy. In this region we
have progressed along the entire front and
occupied several German trenches, and the
same has happened in the forest OF LIE Pretre.
Ia the Vosges we have repulsed several
attacks. north west of Siuones. In the re-
manning segment Of the Vosges the enemy
made no endeayour to deliver any serious
attack on the positions we occupied last
week. In the eastern theatre OF the war,
stubborn attacks made by the Germans
against the Russian front, from How to Low
iez. and from Strykow to Lodz, and also
along a line running north and south, SIX
teen kilometres west Of Piotrkow, were
repulsed. Nevertheless, because OF the
EXPOSED position of Lodz, at the head of
the wedge, the Russians found it advisable
TO evacuate this city. The Austrians who
received German reenforcements have re-
sumed the offensive in the region Of Sandec,
southeast of CracoW, against the Russian
left."
A Petrograd communiqne issued to-day,
says: 'sThe engagements which developed in
the region of Przasnyez and Ciechunow. east
of the East Prussiau border and Mlawa,
have not vet terminated. In the fighting in
the region of Piotrkow we were only partially
successful. The battle which commenced on
Saturday, south east of Cracow, in the region
OF Wieiiczka on the river Deriuty, developed
in oul favour, and after having courageously
forced the passage of the river Dounaets,
in the vicinity of Nowy Sandec, our reen-
forcements pursued their offensive and inhict-
ed q serious defeat on the Germans who had
formed in the valley of Lososzys, where their
right was pursued and turned. The Twenty
fourth German Corps, transported here from
Belgium, opened this combat with an auto
mobile battery, but it was partly disabled
and partly put to flight without striking q
blow. Following this we successfully put
out of action several pieces of heavy artillery,
silenced five field batteries and captured
several cannon. German prisoners affirm
that their units sustained enormous losses,
some companies being reduced to forty men.
We are pursuing the offensive. On Monday
morning the Turkish cruiser 'Breslau' was
discovered in the vicinity Of SebastapoI and
our cruisers and hydroplanes started in pur-
suit, but before the attack could be made
she disappeared.
German official dispatches state "West
of Rheims, a fishery, although flying q Red
Gross flag, was bombarded and set on FIRE
by our troops, as we had ascertained by pho
tographs taken by our aviators that, behind
the fishery, was hidden a French heavy
battery. The French attacks in the dis
trict around Souain and on the villages of
Varennes and Vouquers, in the eastern part
of Argonne, have been repulsed with heavy
losses to the enemy. In the forest of Argon-
ne itself ground was gained in several
places and on this occasion we took a
numoer of prisoners. The French suffered
heavy losses in the battles reported yester-
dry north of Nancy, while our losses were
comparatively small. In northern Poland we,
are in close tough with the Russians, who
have come to d standstill in q strongly forth
fed position west of Warsaw. The fighting
for the town of Lowioz continues. In south
ern Poland the Austro-Hungarian forces
fighting side by side with our troops have