The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1914-12-23
INDEC|SIyE RESULTS
IN EASTERN THEATRE
The Russians and Germans
Fighting on Long Front.
ALLIES ON OFFENSIVE
IN THE WEST
With Snow and Mud Interfering with
Progress OF the Armies, Fierce
Fighting Continues to Take Place in
Pot!l tho East and the Western
Arenas.

otH thc LuSJ uHu Tic western
Arenas.
London, Dec. 2l.-In Poland and
Galicia battles are being fought be-
tween the Russians and the Germans
and Austrians allies amid deep snow
in bitter cold, In Belgium and north
ern France the Germans and the
French, British and Belgian allies are
contesting on the mud fields, foot by
foot.
NO news OF decisive gain came from
either arena today. The Russian and
German claims continue directly con
Trajectory. The Germans in Poland
are making a fierce attack towards
the capital nd the Russians are op-
posing them on the east bank Of the
Bzura river, 80 miles west of War
say. Grand Duke Nicholas army
there holds a natural strategic line
90 miles long, running, roughly, north
and south along the east banks of the
Bzura and Rawra rivers.
The Petrograd official report claims
that the German force in North Po-
land has retreated across the boun-
dairy into East Prussia in a north
westerly direction. 1t asserts also that
the Austrian advance through the
Carpathian passes to the north has
been checked and attempts Of the
Przemysl garrison to break through
the 1innc hnuo
ing to this report the Austians have
been driven into the Notifications
with heavy slaughter.
The Austrian communication claims
successes In the Carpathians but ad-
mits that the Russians again occupy
Galicia and South Poland in force. Ap-
rarently, therefore, the Cracow and
Prezemysl investments are proceeding
and have not been broken.
Serious fighting between the Rus
SLAMS and Turks around Erzerum,
Turkish Armenia, has been stopped
bya six-foot snowfall and the in
tense cold, from which the Arabs are
suffering bitterly.
Berlin publishes what purports to
be an order issued by Gen. Joffre,
commanderin-chicf of the allied
forces In the West, dated December
II, exhortlng the soldiers and telling
them the hour has come to clear
the invader from France"
A late Paris official bulletin de-
scribes small gain all along the line,
F., particularly In the centre between the
Argonne and the Meuse.
British ships again have been bonn
harding Zeebrugge and Heyst, as we'll
as the coast beyond Ostend, where the
Germans have established many shore
batteries.
Political developments in Hungary.
whose people are reported to be deep
ly. discontented because they think
that Grmany and Austria are failing
to give Hungary fair share OF pro-
lection, are the subject of much spec
ulation and deep interest in England.
Paris, Doe. 21.--progress all along
the line was claimed in the French
official statements given out in Paris
this afternoon and tonight. There
was not single mention Of German
success or French repulse. Gains, al
though slight. were recorded in Bel
g!um, between the Lys and the Aisne;
In the Champagne country and in the
Argonne. At one point an advance Of
1900 yards was reported and at anoth-
er the French made 500 yards,
Progress has been made between
the Argonne and tho Meuse, on the
right bank bf the Meuse, and on the
heights Of the Mehse,
The French heavy artillery is de-
scrlbed as having been successful on
the Aisns, Near Rheims and else
where
the British troops have regained
most of the trenches previously lost
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