Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-01-27
Grand Dukes New Army Push.
ina Close to German Frontier
Merely Holding Lines
South of vistuIa.
HEAVY FIGHTING IN WEST
Great Battle In Progress Be,
tween Ostend and Newport
Millions of Refugees
Are Starving.

London. Jan. 23.--News dispatches
referring to the situation in Poland.
set forth that north of the vistula. in
the Vicinity OF LipnO, Russian dVan.
guards are within 20 miles of the Ger
man frontier. while to the northeast
the Germans have evacuated Skelnpe.
which is about 2b miles from the Prus-
sian border and due southeast of Thorn.
lf the Russians follow up their sue
cess at Skenpe and continue their for
ward movement. it will give them an
~unbrcken front i'm the opinion of Brit
ish observers. dangerously nea German
territory.
Russia Has High Hopes.
The western allies are watching this
region just now With great interest and
dispatches from Petrograd say that the
Russians are pinning high hopes on
this effective thrust near n German
line. Elsewhere they are planning mere
~ to hold their own. barring. of course.
the advance through Transatlantic.
The Austrians. however. appea not
to have been crushed by their re"ersea
in Rukowina. for the Russians them
selves refer to the attempted Austrian
offensive. Other news dispatches tell
of the movement of Austrian reinforce
mcnts aimed to check the Russian d.
vance.
Heavy fighting is in progress once
ol0llS StS NSSNkb ASAtNs 0AAO'
fetal advices from Amsterdam tell of
a hard battle in Belgium, between Os-
tend and Newport. which has been rag
ing without Interruption for three DAYS.
notwithstanding the rains, flooded
trenches and almost impossible roads
At the other enc of the line near Ger
nay and Thanh. i'm Alsace. there is ar
tillerN firing of u%husua violence. An
other encounter along the Lorraine
frontier is increasing in severity ard
on account of the Importance of the is
sue ma. develop into Il battle of the
proportions of that at scissors last
week.
The Germans have halted the French
advance designed to cut commtmica-
tons With the Important fortress OF
Metz, in Lorraine. and sOlat the Ger
man forces in the st. Mihel region. The
gays that the French lost heavily in
am attack near Port-a-Mousson and
were repulsed The French statement
acknowledges that the Germans have
retaken part OF their lost trenches.
Another violent battle is in progress
in Alsace, in which troops are engaged
i'm lland-to-land struggles. The Rerlin
war office asserts that the french Were
driven from the heights near sennlleim,
The Turks claim to have arrested the
Russian advance in the Caucasus. but
they give no details. The British press
continues to assert that the proposed
Turkish invasion of Egypt is doomed
to failure, out it gives credence to many
reports to tho effect that such invasion
surely will be attempted.
Suffering Widespread.
The suffering in Belgium, which the
help Of America has gone so far t.
relieve, is for the moment i'm the back
ground when compared with the desti
tuition of non combatants in Palestine
Poland and the ~Carpathians. From
Palestine Jewish colonists continue t,
flee to Egypt. being conveyed as rapid
ly as possible by the American cruis,-i
Tennessee. The destitution of Poland i.
said to be terrible. and Il ncw appea
for aid has been issued by Ignace Pad
erewiski and Henry Sienkiw!cz. VIII,
speak for all factions. 1t is said tina
the situation in Poland is far wors,
than it is in Belgium. The fleeing PEG
pie of Bukowina are living like animal.
in V and fighting with wolves TO,
such s~ustenance as the snow covered
country affords.