The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-12-29
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jOfFre's General staff Explains
Why Advance Of Allies
Is So Slow
Christmas Brings No Respite To
The Warriors Along the
Great Battlefronts

fA-aocirtad rrsss BY Fedsrsl wirsiessl
LONDON, December 81. - The fact
that the advance Of the Allies against
the German intrenchments. from Al
SAGE TO the North Sea, Is slow Is OK,
planned by the announcement that the
general stad OF General JoHro tho
French con-ander in.chief, has deter.
mined 70 make no useless sacrihces Of
large bodies Of men TO accomplish re,
cults that are within their grasp ana
which may be attained by methods that
ere sure and which precise urir-ate
victory without needless sla-ghter.
NO CHRISTMAS RESPITE
Christmas Day brought no rest 70
the great armies battling steadily and
Desperately along hundreds Of f.iles. Of
she'll torn battle line. The wa spirit
overwhelmed the holiday Split on
Eufope's battlefield.
Christmas Day, 1914, found the Rus-
sian afrhies lighting DESPERATELY through
Poland SHOWS against the German at
lacks and onslanghts OF the An triari
allies.
Russian successes, as rorotted ON.
cially by the authorities a. Petrcgrad,
include advances f.iado around War
saw and around Cracow, but develop
mcnts Of yes erday do not materially
change the general Situation
The ureratiUns between the Russian
army In the Caucasus and the Turkish
TROOPS Fave Been brotl9ht 10 stand.
still by several blizzards and SHOWS In
the valleys ana on the steppes OF the
Wild COUNTRY where much Of the igln.
ing has been done.
FLANDERS RELATIVELY QUIET
In Flanders, the German oficial bull
leiin reported the situation quiet. The
Germans declare they have taken tho
second line Of British trenches In BEL
GUM.
The French report several successes
along the center ana the eastern lines.
At some poiu.s the trenches Of the
hostile TROOPS have been pushed SO close
together that there is no opportunity
for artillery FIRE and the soldiers can
nse only hand grenades, which are
fung actors the few feet Of interven.
ing sJace.
TkUcEs TO BURY DEAD.
SO great had the necessity become Of
burying the dead who have fsllen In
the charges between British and Ger
man lines, that on this part Of this
battle front numbsr OF informal
truces were declared. In many cases
the soldiers who fell IN the charges
and counter charges had been lying for
weeks Just as they were stricken down.
80 incessstit and searching has been
the hail Of shell and bullets thar the
men in the trenches could not bury
their fallen comrades even at night.
NO MATERIAL CHANGES y
ofhcial bulletins issued In the vari.
Gus European capitals today show that
there is no rsaterifl change In the SIT
uation ON the western front
The Berlin report dwells chiefly on
the British rf,serse alleged TO have &C.
CURED at st. Hubert and previously re-
ported. ~
Paris chronicles numerous severe At
taclks made by the Germans. Tho
Paris cot--.nniuue asserts that all the
attacks were repulsed, which seeming
ly IS conftmed by the failure Of the
Berlin announcement 70 make any men.
ton Of the attempted advances.
RUSSIAN SUCCESS REITERATED
Berlin admits that IN Poland an A.
tempt OF invading German forces to
cross the Bzura river has been aband-
oned.
Petrograd not only confirms this but
declares that RUSSIANS have thrown
back the attacking soldiers ana that
he Gernfis lost hefafly in the fight
ing.
Petrograd also asserts that the Ras-
sian attack against cracow Is steadily
developing
BRITISH GENERAL DEAD
Gen. Sir Thomas Kelly Kenny, for.
mer sdiutaut general died here today.
FROM GERMAN CAPITAL
BERLIN December 26.-omcial
Fuller uetails Of the battling be
tween Germans and British ~ ST HUI
bert CHOW that the ANGLO Indian troors.
lest nineteen officers and that sos men
we're taken prisoners. Fourteen ma.
chine gurs and twelve rhine throwers
have been captured by the Gers-ans
a-d 5000 Of The oDposing forces wero
killed. Our losses were co-eDaratively
small.
"Flrewhe-s the e7gpge,nents have
been Of q r.inar and inconclnsive char
rster ard the situation Is unchanged
iva have ceased Onr attacks on the
RuSs'ans % the river Bznra.
'sThe Russian attack near Lotzen
mrs bean rspuised We captured a.
thorssnd ~ tho enemy.
"So1thoast Of Tomazow, Poland, our
oaonsi--e Is rrOgrev-ipg.v
1IIE FRENCH REPORTS
PARIS Deceriber a6,--Tbe oHeial
h-'ls.in todf1 nlsntiols particularly .
severe Gennsn attack Yesterday for
500 wards along tho Allies front near
Per.hes The attack was completely
checked.
Per>e-tible progress Is c'eimed by
IRE French taward cerney. in Alsace.
The weather Is foggy in Flanders and
I,.a s-ne-t is slow.
Elsewhere the battling is nothing but
an artillery duel.
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