The Sentinel=record., 1915-01-13
WOULD RELIEVE RHEIMS CITY
Turks Are Making Their Death Struo. gle at karaurgan-Army Must Win at This Point or Be Annihilated by Russians.

London, Jan. l2-l0:50 D. m.-The French attacks to the north of Sois- sons on the Aisne and near Perthes east of Rheims. are developing into the offensive The gains the French have made at tn se points. if followed up would have twofold impor tance They threaten the railways which the Germans are ueing 10 sup ply then troops in the fiqhtng line and are serious menace 10 the German forces which hold positions to the north of Pheims
 The French have found it impos s;ble to take. by frontal attacks. those positions, from which the Germans are bomharding Rheims. but ad- 1 vances on either side would envelope them and force a retirement. thus giving the cathedral city much de sired relief fro mthe German shells
 In tine ArgOnne and on the heights | ot the Mouse the Germans are on the offensive and claim to have made further progress. It is reported that | the Germans have sent heavy rein f forcements to this district to prevent the French from breaking their lines, which are very close to their own border and not far from Metz. Fresh German troops despatched to Alsace, combined with the wintry weather have stopped the French advance in that region. Along the rest of the front artillery is doing most of the work, only isolated at. tacks being attempted the state of the weather and the ground making the movements of large bodies of troops out of the question.
 Similar conditions prevail in the east and while they have not com pletely stopped the fighting they have called a halt over the greater part of the field of operations. In restricted areas, along the river Rawka near BolimoW, however. there has been free fighting but according to Petrograd correspondents, the Germans have been unable to make any material advance. Severe fieht- ing also is taking place on the Nida river where the Austria1s are oppos- ing the Russian attempts to pcne. trate to Cracow
 The Germans are keeping the Ma zurian lakes open win ice breakers to block the Russian advance in East Prussia. The Russian troors hold positions around the lakes and have been waiting for them to freeze over before resuming their offensive.
 The Turks deny that they have been defeated by the Russians in the Caucasus and, as an offset to this denial, Petrograd has the report that Noury Bey, chief of the general staff of the th!rd Ottoman army corps. who was sent by the Sultan to inves- tieate the report of the defeat, has been captured by the Cossacks.
 The Turks have been offering stubborn resistance to the Russians at KaraUrgan. where battle has been iI progress for five days The position at this place is more favcr- able for the Turks. who have not the deep snow of the mountains to con tend with and are in closer touch with their base. It is death strug- gle for them. for so long as the Rus sian fleet commands the Black sea the Turks cannot get achievements from Europe, the overland route being a long and difficult one. They have an army corps at Bagdad but this is needed to oppose the advance of the British Indian army from the east