Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-01-10
BIG ARMIES IN
 DEATH GRAPPLE
 NEAR SOlssONs
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attacks delivered with bewildering rapidly and almost demoniacal fury on two short stretches of the battle front along the Aisne today and yes terday ilave turned this region into a veritable inferno. The fighting has extended in intensity the original bat tie of the 'Aisne.
 On the 20-mile section of front from north of Soissons eastward al most to Craonne, the country is a shambles. No less so is the front to the north of thes-les-Hurlus. The fields have every appearance of hay ing been wrecked by an earthquake; swept by tornado and devastated by fire. Great furrows scar the sides of the hills, gaping pits appear where mines have blasted hostile earth works, bogs drain into sunken roads, now turned into river beds by tor rential rains.
 Dead Litter Fields.
 And over it all are scattered the bodies of the dead. Mangled re- mains of horses, wrecked gun car riages and tons of abandoned equip ment arc strewn about. But still the big guns boom, punctating with their deadly explosions the steady rattle of musketrl and the reports of the uuick-firers.
 On both these fields the French have captured line upon line of Ger man trenches by an extremely violent offensive, and have rolled back time after time tEe counter attacks of the kaiser's troops, driven to desperation by the rapidity of the French advance.
 After the capture of two lines of the German trenches to the north of Soissons, when the Germans were forced from the plateau of Vregny to- ward Nanteil and Aixy, the French attack was carried along the line eastward and the republics forces, debouching from Vailly and Chavonne, advanced under cover of the fire from the famous "seventy-fives" and charged the heights to the northwest of Soupir, known as hill 132, carrying 6 it in I dashing. charge.
 -,- Germans Moved Down. Three lines of trenches on a front more than 600 yards long were car ried by the French. Hundreds Of German dead were left on the field by the enemy, but they reorganized and r.:urned to the attack vigorous ls. Three times they hurled vast columns against the neYly-captured trenches, but each time they were beaten back by the forces of the French, and the fire of the quick firers, which .ncwed them down rank upon rank.
 Night brought a cessation to the infantry attacks, but there was nc rest fer tho heavy guns. These kept up constant cannOnade which was sharply and effectively replied to by the German batteries, This morning the Germans again returned to the attack in final supreme effort to retake their lost positions. This time they met with such disastrous fire that they were forced back on their last line from Brave to Cornay, while their reserves were compelled to dig new lines of supporting trenches on a line from Chevrigny through Fancy to Mar'sney.
 Paris, Jan. 9.-"The Russians have entered Pennsylvania" telegraphs the Petrograd correspondent of the Matin "The Austrians have evacuated hasti I ly the whole of Bukowina," he adds leaving open new roads for the Rus sian troops into the Hungarian prov. inces, particularly in the direction oi the city of Maramaros Sziget, capita of the County of Maramoras, at the