Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-01-22
ADV
BY FRENCH
IS HALTED
Effort TO Cut Off Ger.
mans from Metz
Fails
KAISER'S FORCES WIN
NEAR P0NT-A-M0USSON
Berlin Claims French Casualties
HeaYy-Paris Admits Loss
of Trenches.
RUSSIANS ONLY 20 MILES
FROM GERMAN FRONTIER
Both Sides Settle Down in IN
trenched Positions West
of Warsaw.
KAISER'S FORCES WIN
NEAR P0NT-A-MOUSSON
RUSSIANS ONLY 20 MILES
FROM GERMAN FRONTIER

The Germans have halts1 fj,a
French advance designed 10 CIT com
munications with the in7parfans
fortress Of Metz. in Lorrafn 4 ana
isolate the German forces In the 81.
Mihiel region. The official ST. ttemeuS
from Berlin today says that the
French lost heavily in an attack nea-
Pont-a- Mouason, and were repulsed.
The French statement ack howlsdges
that the Germans have re faken part
Of their lost trenches.
Another violent battle Is IN progress
in Alsace. In which froe IDS are en-
gagged in hand-to-hand st1 qlcgies. The
Berlin war office astser Is thar the
French were driven Sroni the heights
near Sennhein1.
In the eastern campsl en no change
is reported today.
Unofficial advices FRO m Ansterdaua
tell of hard battle III belgium, be-
tween Ostend and N Ieuport. which
has been raging without interruption
for three days. Notwithstanding the
rains, flooded trench es and airnosf
impossible roads
The Russian and German forces
west Of Warsaw hare settled down
IN their entrenched POSITIONS and the
battle line has becoime fixed almost
as rigioly as In the west. The casys-
paign in Galicisl and Bukoygirss.
makes slow headzTFiy on account OF
the heavy snow. According to r.
ports from Russia n sources. The r.
tlrement of the AtIstrians across tbs
? rrsllfl y fesss1 l.
BY the Associated F.r.ess.
BERLIN. Jan. = By wireless to
London, S:16 y. rri.g-The war of1lcs Is
sued the following statement todav.
"on January IL in the western
theatre of war. a continuous rain
rendered impossible any trnportart
fighting between the coast ana tfa
canal OF La Bassee Artillery dnels
took place near Arras. One Of tn
trenches which we took on the day
before yesterday. southwest OF Berry
Au-Bac, was abandoned and blown
up. II had been partly DESTROYED by
the collapse Of the wall OF a factors
A French attack north OF verduu
was repulsed easily. After the bat-
ties of the day before yesterday fa
the south of st. Mihiel small Frsno;,
detachments still held ont IN the
neighborhood of our positions B.
means Of an advance IN the regios.
before our front was cleared OF iii
Frenchmen as far as their old posi-
tons.
The battle for Croix-Des Larmes.
northwest OF Pont-a-Mousson, cor
tirues. A strong French attack 81
the recaptured part Of our positions
was repulsed with heavy losses TO tn
enemy.
In the Vosges, north of Sennhein
our troops threw the enemy out q
the heights Of the Hartmanr- Weller
kopf Hills. We took two officers ara
LIS men prisoners.
In the eastern theatre OF war ths
situation Is unchanged Our attae1s
on branch OF the SZucha made SLOW
progress. There Is nothing new cart
OF the Pilica.''
BY the Associated Press.
PARIS. Jan. o. (2:50 D. m.)-Tes
French war Office this afternoon gave
out an official report or the progress
Of the war, reading as follows:
In Belgium the enemy yHsterdsF
bombarded Nieuport with 8 fair g.
gree of violence. Our infantry mad
some slight progress to the ea
Lomhaertzyde highway. Betweaa
Ypres and the 0ise successful opera
tons on the part of o1r artilIar.
against field works, batteries snd ae-
taehments of infantry Of the eslem
took place yesterday.
From the Oise 20 the Areoafie-
The situation IN the vicinity Of soil-
sons shows no change. Near Berry
au-Bac a trench which we were con-
pelled TO evacuate following d Vieisrs
bombardment was recaptureo by Us
In the region of Perthes the enemy
delivered an attack during the nigh
OF January 1921 at point northwest
OF Beaus-jour, but without success.
Between the Meuse and the No
selle: To the southeast of st. Mihiai.
in the forest of ApremOnt, an exceed
ingly violent bombardmant made Il
impossible for US TO retain the Ger
man trenches occupied by US yestsr-
DAY for a distance of $50 wards
Germans Reeapture Trenches.
ITO the northwest Of Pont-a- Nous.
son. in the forest Of lie Pretre. tht
enemy yesterday recaptured a po-tlni
OF the trenches taken by US January
20, but we are maintaining ourselves
at all other points Of this position,
I'm the Vosges the enemy huried
against St Die six projectiles Of grea5
calibre without. however, doing al1s
serious damage.
"At a point between Mount Boz
honme and Mount Sohlucht therS
has been an artillery engagement s
which the German batteries were r
duced to silence.
TN Alsace the infantry lighting =
the region of Hartmann and W'eiier
kopf is going on with great ferocfts
The struggle Is actually hand-to-hand
"In front OF Dannemarie our arfit
lery dispersed gatherings Of ths
enemy"
By the Associated Prees.