Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-01-31
ARMIES PREPARING
|. FOR OPERATIONS
ON GREAT SCALE
Possibilities Hardly Antici-
pated When H0stili-
ties Began.
SPHERE OF WARFARE
IS WIDELY EXTENDED
Russia Alone Engaged in Fight
ing Hostile Forces Over
l,500-Mile Front.
CAMPAIGN IN CARPATHIANS
Austro-German Troops Concentrate
for Offensive Against
Muscovites.
CAMPAIGN IN CARPATHIANs
Austro-German Troops Concentrate
for Offensive Against
Muscovites.

LONDON. January 30 te:55 p. M).-
The end OF the six months OF Europcs
great war finds the bclliGercnt armies
completing preparations for. or actual
~ engaged in, operations on an extent
hardly anticipated when the declara-
tion of hostilities wcro made.
In Flanders. France. and Central Po-
land, deadlock still exists, but large
ly because Of Russla's tremendous re-
sources and Turkeys action, tho
sphere OF operations has been widely
extended Russia alone Is engaged in
lighting hostile armies from Tilsit, far
in tho north OF East Prussia. to Tabriz.
I'm Persia. a distance Of over 1900 miles
Only that portion OF her territory bor-
dering Roumania Is free from menace.
but her reports declare all Of her i'm
mcnse armies are successful
Tho Russian outflanlsinG movement
in Northern East Prussia Is said to
he gaining momentum. The armies on
either side of Tilsit have cut the Ger
man railway bctween that city and
Memel. on the Baltic.
ARMY ADVANCING TOWARD
FORTRESS OF THORN
sia, another army Is advancing toward
the German fortress of Thorn, while
still another is holding line OF in
trcnchments which protects Warsaw.
and which General Won Hindenburs has
been trying to batter through for three
months. Other armies are again pre-
pairing to meet a big Austro-German
force attempting to regain Galicia and
Bukowina.
To the eastward. where Muscovte
troops are battling against the Turks.
another defeat apparently has been In
flicted or the Sultan's forces. The
Russian official report says the Turks
are retreating to Tabriz. while unof-
fetal dispatches declare the Russians
have reoccupied that city.
What is regarded as the most i'm
portant campaign. however. Is that de-
veloping In the Carpathians brought
about by tho Austro-German offensive
to drive the Russians from Galicia and
Bukowina. Tho Austro- German allies
are said to have concentrated twenty
eight army corps for this venture. So
far as can be gathered from contra
dictory official reports. the Russians
have won preliminary skirmishes In
the western passes from Dukla, TO
Wyszkow. while In the east they have
been forced to retire before superior
forces
These battles. which nre being fought
in the snow. are just commencing, how
ever, and many days must pass before
n definite decision Is reached
LOCAL ENGAGEMENTS
CONTINUE IN WEST
Battles in the west still consist OF
a ON Itl,a
mans, apparently preparing for an ex-
tensive offensive before the allies get
their full strength into the field. occa
sionally deliver rather more serious
attacks. These are scattered all along
the front from the sea to the Swiss
frontier.
Guinchy. which the British now hold,
after driving back tho Germans who
captured 1t on Monday, was attacked
again yesterday. and. according to Il
British report. the Germans were re-
pulsed, leaving 200 dead in front OF
the trenches they sought to capture
The ArGonne has been tho scene of
another attack,and in this case the Ger
man forces claim to have taken over
200 prisoners and counted between 400
and 500 dead
In giving 4 review OF these local af
lars between January 16 and 81, :.
french eyewitness declares all but one
OF them resulted in favor of the allies
There has been more outpost lighting
in the vicinity of the Suez Canal but
latest reports say the Turks are with
drawing their advance posts There
still Is some doubt whether thcy have
definitely committed themselves to tho
march they must make across the
desert TO invade Egypt
LOSSES ADMITTED