The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-02-05
A GENERAL SURVEY OF
The WAR. :


SAGE brisk fighting has been resumed,
and the battle of Craonne continues
severity.
The French war Office statement
announces that every German attack
was repulsed and that every French
attack made progress. 1t asserts that
ground was won by the allies in Up
per Alsace and near Craonne. The
German statement says that the
French were defeated in Upper Al
SAGE, fleeing in disorder at two points
and that at CraOnne another long Sec
ton of trenches of the allies was cap
tured
A great battle developed in Galicia,
along a 100-mile front, skirting the
Carpathians The struggle continues
in the north along the Warsaw front,
without decisive result
Severe fighting is IN progress in
the Transcaucasus, where the Turks,
notwithstanding their reported defeats
recently, are admitted by the Rus
sian military authorities to have as
sEmed again an energetic offensive.
Friday, Jan. ga new Russian
army has appeared in East Prussia
anC is attempting a turning move
ment designed to compel the retire
ment of the Germans from the entire
province. 1t has reached Pogegen,
three miles north of Tilsit, an I'M
portant city in northern East Prussia.
The French war Office says the
Germans were repulsed in two at
tempts to cross the Aisne. The Ger
man war office says the allies were
outfought in Flanders in the duhes
and that attacks by the British near
La Bassee were easily repulsed.
In the eastern theater the war Of
flee reports the main position of the
Russians east of Lowicz on the War
saw front was penetrated and
trenches occupied On the left bank
Of the Victula Russian attacks were
repulsed with heavy losses to the
Russians
Saturday, Jan. 3O.-In Persia the
Russians have routed the Turkish
troops and entered Tabriz after a
stubborn battle in which many hun
dreds were slain.
The Russian general staff says the
battle in East Prussia continue with
much violence.
of Vyil1o nf
Lebegalen and on the left bank OF
the Vistula were repUlsed with greet
losse. On the Carpathian front in the
Dykla and Wyszkow, the fighting is
gradually assuming the character of
a general battle.
In the western field the struggle
was confined to artillery combats,
The cannonading was intense at
points with no decisive change.
Sunday, Jan. 3f.-The Russian gen
elal staff reports some further prog
ress in. East Prussia and desperate
fighting on the left bank of the Vistu-
la where trench was retaken from
the Germans after an extremely ten
acious struggle.
A new Russian army has entered
Hungary through the Dukla Pass
after turning the left wing of the Aus
tro-German forces massed northward
of the eastern Carpathians. The
Russ are advancing unmolested at
this point.
The Germans are concentrating
trocps in the vicinity of Ypres to re-
new their attempts to cut their way
through the lines of the allies of the
sea
In Flanders there We're artillery
duels only. At Guinchy, south of the
Bethune and near CareEcy, northwest
of Arras. the Germans took some
French trenches.
A dispatch from Ispahan, the old
capital of Persia. 2G0 miles from TIE
keran says the Turks have raided the
Elijah sanctuarfes in kerbela and
seized s19,0GOG0O in money and
Jewels. The Shiites are engaged over
the descration.