New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-12-30

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London, Dec, 29.-The investment
by the Russians of the Austrian fort
ress of Cracow again has been raised.
Petrograd dispatch says. Following
an attempt made by the Austrians to
divide the Russian forces in Galicia
the Russians retreated eastward fifty
miles.
The initiative in military operations
apparently has been left for the time
being to the airmen.. Aerial raids
across the English channel to the
Lower Thames, over Freiburg, Nancy,
Metz and Sochaczew, Poland, and on
the German naval base at Cuxhaven
inflicted considerable damage in the
aggregate.
Details of the Cuxhaven expedition
still are lacking and although Berlin
asserts that the British aviators ac-
complished nothing it is said in Ham
burg that some damage was done. 1t
is evident, however, that the heavy
&, fog prevented the British from carry
Z ing. out fully their plans.
Activity on land and sea apparently
is diminishing. Even in Russian Po-
land the fighting is becoming less Sc
we're, without decision having been
reached. Vienna admits that the Aus
TRANS have been compelled to give
ground before the Galician Carpathi.
ans and in Berlin, it is said the Ger
man attacks along the Bzura river,
west of. Warsaw, have ceased Petro-
grad reports only artillery fire in this
region.
North of the Vistula river in Poland
!. where Mlawa was recaptured by the
Germans last week, the invaders seem
to have made little progress. In South
ern Poland, where the German right
wing joins the Austrian left wing,
there has been some fierce fighting,
with slight gains for the Teutonic
allies, judging from the reports CON-
ing from Berlin and Vienna.
Allies Onslaught Checked.
In the western theater of the war
the onslaught of the allies would seem
to have been checked by the counter
attack of the Germans. French troops
during the last three days have made
minor advances, according to the Of
fetal statements given out in Paris,
but apparently not at the same rate
of speed as chronicled fortnight ago.
With the exception of the capture OF
certain Anglo-Indian trenches near
the Lys last week, most of which the
allies claim to have recaptured, the
efforts of the Germans to send back
the allied line appear, in the opinion
of British observers, to have been gen
orally abortive.
The French official statement con-
cedes the loss of a section of trenches
at point south of Ypres, while Ber-
lin advices tell of the taking of these
trenches and several dozen prisoners.
The French claim advances in Bel
GUM have brought the allies to the
foot of the sand dunes west of Lom-
baertzyde, on which the Germans
have established their line of resist
ance
In the region of LENS, the French
say, 500 yards of first line trenches
were occupied. Artillery fighting in
the region of the Aisne and in Cham
payne, particularly around Rheims and
Perthes, is chronicled The French
claim progress on the heights of the
Meuse and the repulse of a German
counter attack to the northwest of
Steinbach, in Upper Alsace.
In the Vosges the Germans bonn.
barded the railroad station of St. Die.
Berlin claims repulses Of attacks
|. northwest of Arras, southeast of Yer.
ksdun and west of Senheim, and saws
the naval bombardment of German
positions on the coast resulted in the
killing Of several inhabitants of West
ende.
Mild weather is impeding the prog.
ress Of heavy guns.