The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-12-28
Report Capture of
$1,000 Prisoners
FOG HALTS FIGHTING
IN WESTERN ARENA
French Claim TO Have Repulsed
German Counter Attacks.

London. Dec. Christmas has
come aud gone without a truce ON the
part OF any OF the warning nations OF
Europe While there has been no
marked cessation OF military activity
no decisive action has occurred along
either of the great battle fronts. A
spectacular element was supplied by
an aerial duel between a German air
craft and two English biplanes over
the Thames. This was Witnessed by
several thousand persons The Ger
mans escaped.
From PetrogrsG- comes the news
that the Russians have resumed the
| Offensive at several points In Poland
and that they have captured 1900
prisoners. Berlin, however. reports
inactivity along the Polish front An
| Austrian army still is making a cour-
fageous effort to strike down the val
ley OF the Nida in the direction OF
lTarnow, hut British observers are OF
the opinion this movement will be too
late if il is a fact that the Austro.
German center really has received its
Ireported check.
| Germans Holding Bulldog Grip.
General Won Hindenburg. the Ger.
man commander in the east, still
keeps his bulldog grip on the Vistula
and seems TO be making his present
movement toward Warsaw from
Thron, which is northwest of the Pol
ish capital in the province OF West
Prussia. The latest Austrian state
ment tells OF stubborn fighting on the
Dunajec river, Galicia, where the bat
tie line is unchanged, and chronicles
progress in the Carpathians
The French official statement, refer
ring to the situation in the eastern
theater OF war, says the Germans who
succeeded in forcing their way across
the Bzuro river to the south OF So
chaczew were driven back after hay-
ing suffered considerable losses and
that all German attacks on BoIimow
resulted in failure.
The French statement says in the
region OF Inowlodz, on the Pilica riv.
er, and TO the south of this locality
stubborn fighting continues. Along
the entire course of the Nida river
and to the south OF the Upper Vistula
| river, the French statement says, the
fighting is going on under conditions
favorable to the Russians.
Fog Covers Flanders.
On the western battle line Paris re
ports that fog in the north has inter
fered with the operations in Flanders
that counter attacks on the part oil
the Germans have been repulsed al
Boisselle, northeast of Albert, and al
Lihons, to the west of Chaulnes
where a trench captured from the
Germans was lost and then recaptured
after spirited engagement
Between the Disc and the Aisne
repulsed at Chiyy, northeast of Soupir
in the region of Perthes the French
artillery silenced German batteries
which were bonbarding trenches re
Gently occupied by French troops
Two German counter attacks there
were repulsed
The French statement reports quiet
between the Melse and Moselle rivers
and in the Argonne region, and as
serts there was perceptible progress
I'm front OF Cernay, Lorraine. The
French troops, according to the state
ment, have reached the outskirts oi
the forest on the hills TO the west oi
the town and also have occupied the
outskirts of Aspach, the valley anc
the heights which dominate Aspach on
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