Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-01-28
Great Military Venture Marked
The Birthday of Kaiser
Yesterday.
MORE BLUECHER SURVIVORS
English Admiralty Statement
Tells Of Two WarShipS Dis
abIed in North Sea Fight.

London, Jan. 27.-The Germans
who are reported from Holland to
be making preparations for a big
military venture to celebrate the
emperor's birthday today, already
have made more determined effort
than usual against the French and
British lines in Flanders and northern
France. They have attacked the
French to the east of Ypres and have
made no less than five attacks on the
first division of the British force on
either side of La Basse canal.
Both British and French official
reports assert that all these attacks
failed and that the Germans suffered
heavy losses.
The Germans admit their attack
on the British north of the canal
was unsuccessful, but say that on
the south side of the waterway their
efforts brought complete success and
that the British attempt to recap
ture these trenches was repulsed
with heavy losses.
These attacks followed a heavy
British bombardment of German
positions beyond La Basse in which,
|, according to Boulogne reports, one
big German gun was destroyed
while the Germans were prevented
from getting a second heavy gun in
to position.
This was on Saturday. On Mon
day the Germans made their attacks
and some of the hardest fighting Of
the campaign took place. The Ger
mans shelled the hospital at Bethune
and wounded were removed to Bou
logne.
There has been heavy fighting to
the east and west of Croanne, in the
Argonne and in Alsace.
The Russians are making another
effort to advance in East Prussia
while in Poland there has been a
slackening in the fghting on both
sides for the moment. The Russians
appear to be concentrating them
selves on their offensive north of the
lower Vistula, while the Austro-Ger-
mans are preparing to meet the
Russian advance through the passes
of the Carpathians and in southern
Bukowina.
Russian submarines in the western
portion of the Baltic sea have tor
pedoed the German cruiser Gazelle,
which, however, reached port with
the assistance of Swedish steamer.
Their activity has stopped trade car
ried on by German steamers between
Germany and Sweden.
Two hundred additional survivors
of the German cruiser Bluecher, sunk
in the North sea Sunday by British
warships, have been landed. They
include a few petty officers.
The British feet did not escape
unscathed in Sundays North sea
naval battle with the Germans. The
battle cruiser Lion, which led the
British squadron, and the torpedo
boat destroyer Meteor were disabled
and were towed into port, while one
officer and thirteen men were killed
and three officers and twenty-six
men wounded on three of the ships
the Lion, Tiger and Meteor.
This information is contained in an
admiralty statement issued last night.
The statement denies German re-
ports that one British cruiser and
two torpedo boat destroyers were
sunk by declaring that all the British
ships engaged in the action have re-
turned to port in safety.
The announcement was made by
the secretary of the admiralty. whose
statement said:
"All the British ships and torpedo
boat destroyers engaged in Sundays
action have returned in safety to
] port.
The Lion. which had some Of her