The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1915-01-29
TURKS BEGIN
THEIR ADVANCE
. AGAINST EGYPT
Desperate Fighting on Western
Front Marked Birthday An
niversary of Emperor William
Yesterday-Both Allies and
Germans Claim AdvantaQe.
Austria Throws Fresh Men Into
the Carpathian Passes and
Russians Admit That Their
Progress Has Been Tempor-
arily Stayed in That Quarter.
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LONDON, Jan. 28-The Carpathian
passes in western Galicia, Egypt and
Caucasus, by reason of the sudden Of
fensive movements of the armies here
tofore defeated, are again brought to
the foreground as the chief areas Of
interest because of the military oper-
ations.
In Carpathia a big force of Aus
TRANS and Germans has concentrated
and is fighting to stem the invasion Of
Hungary by trying to cut off the Rus
sian forces occupying Bukowina to the
south.
In Egypt the Turkish advance ap-
pears to really have begun.
In Caucasus the shattered forces of
the Turks have been more or less re-
organized and have passed in their
flight towards the frontier and re-
sumed the offensive.
Both Vienna and -Petrograd have
emphasized the importance Of the
Austrian operations in the Carpath-
ians. Austrians claim to have recap
tured certain mountain passes. Petro-
grad conceedes that the Austrians
have thrown fresh men into this re-
gion, evincing activities along the en-
tire Galcian front for hundreds of
miles.
While it is not probable that any
body of Turks has yet penetrated 40
Syenia peninsular their advance scouts
have virtually reached to the edge of
the Suez canal, having moved along
The Caravan route near the Mediter-
Desperate fighting marked yester-
days anniversary of the emperor's
birth on many points near the water
front. While the allies claim that the
German attacks were costly failures,
the Germans assert that the French
and British, notably the British, at
tacks in the Flanders broke down.
Reports Of the North Seas engage
ments Sunday give a similar dis
crepancy. The war lords Of Britain
insist that the battle cruiser Lion is
the only big ship seriously damaged,
belonging to England, while Berlin, ad-
mitting the loss of the German cruiser
Bluecher, asserts that the Germans
inflicted greater punishment on the
English.
The Russian Statement.
Petrograd, Jan. 28.-The general
staff of the Russian army today issued
the following statement on the pro-
gress Of the fighting with the Teutonic
allies. It was dated January 27: "1n
East Prussia fighting has continued in
the region Of Malwischken and Las
dehnen. On the right bank Of the
lower Vistula there took place an ar
tillery engagement and an encounter
with advance parties Of the enemy.
In front Of this river in the neighbor-
hood of Skempe, we were successful
in forcing back several German bat
talions."
Toxic, Jan. 28.-The foreign Office
has issued statement concerning the
present negotiations between Japan
and China, declaring these diplomatic
exchanges contain nothing of nature
to disturb the territorial integrity of
China or anything conflicting with the
sphere Of influence now enjoyed by
other powers in China.
Petrograd, Jan. 28.-An official
statement from the Caucasus head
quarters says that the Russians have
repulsed the Turkish attack in the
vicinity Of the Sultan, Selim and
Tchoruk country and records other
repulses.
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