Evening star., 1915-01-29
MAY FORCE CZAR'S MEN v
OUT OF CITY OF LEMBERG
Turks Again Resume Offensive at
Widely Separated
Points.
SACK FIFTY GREEK VILLAGES
Believed That Germans Still Are
Planning Concentrated Blow at
Allies Lines in West
ern Arena.

LONDON, January 2o.-With
the renewal of offensive opera
tions on fhe part of the Turks in
the Caucasus, apparently timed
so as to force Russia to send
more troops into this field, the
Austro-German activities in Cali
cia and the Carpathians continue
to dominate the military situa-
ton.
Forces of the Teuton allies are
being pushed further to the south
and strung out nearer Roumanian
frontier in order to meet any sud-
den movement over the passes
from that country. Both the
Austrians and the Russians claim
successes in the fighting in the
Carpathians.
Austrian Successes.
The most encouraging war news.
from the German viewpoint, says a
Berlin dispatch. comes from the Car
pathian region, where Austrian swc-
cesses are reported to have been
achieved consistently for some time
now. The latest feat of the Austrians
is said to, have been the driving of the
Russians from the Nagyag valley.
Dispatches from Vienna state that the
Russians probably will be compelled
soon to evacuate the 1Galician city Of
Lemberg, which they have occupied for
several months.
From all the theaters of war comes
news of freezing weather. which bids
fair to continue for some time. The
temperature in East Prussia has fallen
to 13 degrees above zero. Thus far,
however, the cold weather does not
appear to have affected military &C.
tlvity.
Foes in Night Fighting.
The German official statement issued
lat the army headquarters today mem
tions especially the night fighting
which took place between the Germans
and French on the western battle front
and between the Germans and RUS
SLAMS in central Poland.
A night attack on the British sup
ply station at Dunkirk is reported to
nave been made by a number of Ger
man aerOplanes, and the statement also
announces that d German attack with
Uayonets at night succeeded in driv-
ing the French from German trenches
TO which they had penetrated near
Nieuport.
In Russian Poland, to the west OF
Warsaw. several Russian trenches
were captured by the Germans, who
claim to nave repulsed a fierce Russian
night counter attack.
Movements Developing.
The movements of the Austrians and
Germans are rapidly developing along
a front of hundred miles. from Dukla
to Wyszkow. Their columns are try
ing to cross the mountains by nurner-
Gus passes fed by four important rail-
ways from the south. PrZemysl stands
in the center of their line of advance
and its relief apparently forms the in
vaders' immediate objective.
Vienna dispatches say that Austrian
military critics at the front have OBJ
served a general weakening of the
Russian offensive before ''the unmis-
taxable strategic advances" of the Aus
trian forces. In this connection much
significance is attached to the report
that the Austrians have driven the
Uzsok pass, in the Carpathians.
Hea ii, hting continues in East
Prussia. Rel 'rts received in Berlin
state trot tn" Russians hav' been un-
able AXE headway there and that
they are ss.ffering heavy losses.
Col. Shumsky, the Russian military
critic, in study of the Carpathian sit
uation, declares that the Austrians will
deliver their main attack OH their ex-
,-iuht N Ruknwin1
they hope to halt Roumania.
Turks Take Offensive.
The Turks, who. since the reverses
they sustained a month ago at Sari
Kamysh and Ardahan. have been more
or less inactive, again are taking the
offensive at three widely separated
points, namely. in the Tchoruk district
directly south of Batum: near Olti. west
of Kars, and in the province of khoi.
northwest of Tabriz.
Military observers claim to see in this
activity an elaboration of the German
nroeram of stronger offensive
throughout the Carpathian front. The
Turkish strength at these three points
is estimated to aggregate four and
264 guns The force includes thirty
Ave cavalry squadrons and $1,000 men
of the second line.
Turks Are Reinforced.
According to Russian stan officers the
Turks, since their recent defeats, have
succeeded in bringing from Constanti-
nople about fifteen new divisions of
cavalry, artillery and engineers. As
before, the Turks are operating with
Erzerum as their base. One STAFF Of
ficer of the Russian army said:
in all these operations it Is easy to
see the design of the Germans to use
the Turkish troops to distract the Rus ,
slams attention from the main war
heater in Poland and Galacia. The
Germans consider il important to keep
the Russian troops in the Caucasus,