Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-24

IOHIOii. "a. l.-O 4. M.-1OS-
tile aeroplanc dropped a bomb over
Dover this morning and then disap-
peared according to a statement made
this afternoon by the official press
bureau.
The text of the statement follows:
'An aeroplanc of the enemy drop
ped a bomb while passing over Dover
this morning. The missile fell in a
garden and exploded, but no damage
was done. The aeroplane was seen
for few seconds only. It left i'm
mediately passing out over the sea.
British aircroft went up but did
not see the enemy again. The wealth
er was cloudy and foggy."
To-days official statements reveal
the intense nature of the fighting now
in progress both east and west, but in
dicate that, with the possible eXcep-
ton of East Prussia, there has been
no significant change in the alignment
of the opposing forces.
The German statement tells of a
fight for possession of a trench in
France, which was won by the French,
lrecaptured by the Ge" lans and finally
! abandoned. So fierce was the struggle
the trench was almost leveled by ar
tillery fire. No important movements
are reported in the German communi-
cation.
The French statement, while saying
| that small gains have been made here
and there, mentions German attacks
at so many points that it is apparent
the allies have not been permitted
solely to take the offensive into their
own hands. Such ground as they have
won recently is not to be held with
out hard fighting.
Fighting Is Severe
The fighting is Poland has become
most severe and at the points along
the line west of Warsaw the issue is
being fought out with bayonets. The
| Berlin War Office states that the Rus
sian advance in East Prussia has been
checked and that the Russians at
Mlawa in Poland near the Prussian
border have been defeated.
/ A French cruiser in the strait OF
| Otranto, near the Southern end OF
i Italy, was torpedoed by an Austrian
submarine. 1t is stated that the dam
age was slight and that no men were
/ injured.
| Although accounts vary as to the
| present status of military affairs in
| Poland, It is evident that the scene
of heaviest lighting has shifted south
ward from SochmciZw, the town on
the Bzura river thirty miles from
Warsaw toward the Germans for sew
eral days directed their principal eff
forts Austro- G German forces operat-
ing from the Cracow Bazaar are at
! tempting to push northward into Po-
| land. In this effort, however, they
are meeting with determined resist
ance from the Russians.
a semiofficial statement from Pc
| trograd says that Russian successes
| in Galicia continue and that in the
! Carpathians the Austrians have been
J thrown back. Another sortie by the
garrison at Przemysl. which has long
been under attack by the Russians is
said to have resulted disastrously for
the Austrians
| Heavy fighting continues in France
and Belgium but thus far the renew
ed activities have accomplished little,
neither side being able to drive to the
other from the strongly fortified po-
| sitions held so long.
Now that the French government
| has returned to Paris, a venturesome
German aeronaut has attempted to
prove that the capital is not yet out
of the war zone by flying over it. He
was brought down by a French aero
plane, however, at a point nineteen
miles from the city of Paris.