Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-01-28
Greatest Activity in Center, Weather Forcing Halt at
 Ends of Line.
FRENCH TROOPS
 BURIED IN QUARRY
Germans Captured Garrison After Caye-in. and Follow Success by Cap turing Mile of French Trenches.
 French Ciaim Victory at LeIsasSte.

London, Jan. 21.--Most of the ac tivity in the fighting in France seems to be in the neighborhoCu Of the center. severe weather conditions, both in Flanders and the Vosges. have forced a period of temporary in activity, comparatively speaking, at the opposite ends of the long battle line from the sea to the Lorraine frontier
 Both the French and the Germans. in today's official reports, tell of heavy losses in men and ordnance in- flicted on their opponents. The ad- vantage of the day seems to rest With the Germans, their early claims Of successes in the vicinity of La Creute being corroborated by tonight's com 1 munication from the Paris war of l flee
 It is possible to construct from the dry technical language of the of ficial reports a stirring picture of stubborn lighting, heroic resistance and gallant charge and counter charge on many parts of the front, and particularly all about Craonne.
 The charge of inaccuracy must be laid at the door of one side Or the other in respect to the actions about LeBassee, Givenchy and Guincny. Of this engagement the French say that the Germans, attacking with an en- tire brigade, suffered losses aggre
 gating two full batallions. They
 were. thrown back in utter disorder. Paris reports, and along the whole l of hoir I to Bethune, the bodies cf six officers
 and 400 men were found by the pur-
 suing forces of the allies.
 Of this same action, however, Ber-
 lin reports that the British and
 French troops tried to recspture po-
 sitions which the Germans had taken
 on Monday. and says:
 "They were unsuccessful, the ats tack breaking down under our fire"
 Buried In Quarry. : It was the accuracy of the German artillery fire that caused the allies to suffer at LaCreute. Here the gar
 rison manning the trenches had fit- ted up magazine and shelter in an
 ancient stone quarry. Entrance to
 the cavity, which seems to have
 been of considerable depth and with
 steep sides, was hard, through sort
 of passage.
 l The Germans pounded away at this old quarry until finally they dislodg-
 ed the timbers with which the
 entrance was shored up. A great
 cave-in of plank and stone resulted, and when the German infantry rush.
 ed in to follow up the advantage
 they found the entire French garri- ; son trapped and unable to offer re- g sistance..
 g The garrison, caught in the quarry f was responsible for line of trenches : 400 metres long (about one mile) | and when these trenches were Jeff !. comparatively undefended. the Ger
 mans found it simple task to get
 through the first line into the Foulon = woods. after which they compelled the allies to evacuate the entire line of trenches.
 Berlin says that S65 wounded Frenchmen were captured here. with eight machine guns, while depot used by the corps of saDpers anG 3 miners was captured with much valu able war material.
 Paris reports. on the contrary. that despite this setback. caused by tn; quarry cave-in. tour troops rallied
 with remarkable bravery and in { series of dashing counter charges succeeded in gaining large part , the lost ground"
 Germans Repulsed. At another point in the woods O 5 St. Vard, near Tracy-le-Val, tn.
 allies refused to be stampeded in thu face of desperate German attack 5 and repulsed with artillery fire .
 night attack on short line O trenches, which had been thrown in . to confusion by the sudden eyylosioI of some mines. The French left thu trenches temporarily. but after theil artillery had driven bacf the Ger mans, they reoccupied and repaired H