Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-09


70 The south Of Ypres we nave dam
aged the trenches OF the enemy an
siienced his mine thfowers.
In the region Of Soupir we capture
yesterday morning Hiii No. is2 IN
brilliant engagement. making three AZ
tacks During the day the enen
made violent counter attacks. He wa
repulsed every time. Our gain repre-
sents three lines OF German trenche
on front OF 600 yards.
The enemy, being unable TO retak
the positions which he had lost bonn
barded Scissors and burned the Palace
OF Justice there
To the south of Laon and Of Craonn,
our artillery demolished a camp con-
tanning rapid-fire guns, sllenced the
enemy's artillery and wrecked some
trenches.
In the region Of Perthes the enemy
made pronounced attack, to which
we Immediately responded with coun-
ter attack This permitted us not only
70 hold our positions on Hill No. 200,
west. OF Perthes, but also to capture
400 yards OF the enemy's trenches be-
tween Hill No. 200 and the village of
Perthes
In addition single attack directed
by us upon Perthes at the same time
that we were making our counter at
tack upon Hill No 200, made us mas
ters of that village. We have taken
up our position there and have ad-
vanced beyond its borders. Our total
gain from this side was more than
500 yards in depth upon the whole
front.
In the woevre region to the north
west of F'llrey, in the forest OF ALLY
and in the forest of lie Pretre, we
have made slight progress. In the
region of Cernay (Sennheim) we have
maintained our positions. Farther to
the south the enemy, heavily REIN
forced, has recaptured Burnhaupt-le-
Haut at the cost of very heavy
losses"
GERMAN
on the western front there have
been very heavy rains, like cloud
bursts. 1t thundered all day yester-
day. The Lys at some places has
overfowed its banks.
Several attacks made by the enemy
northeast of scissors were beaten OFF
with severe losses to the French. A
French attack near Perthes, north of
Chalons, was also repulsed. The
losses of the enemy were severe.
In the eastern Argonne we success
fully stormed some of the French
positions. We took 1900 prisoners,
mine thrower and a bronze mortar.
The Lorraine battalion of Hessian
Landwehr particularly distinguished
themselves in this action.
One of our advanced trenches,
which at the time we were not oc-
cupyiug, near F'lirey, was occupied by
the French, but It was at once blown
up. All the French occupants were
killed.
The French have been driven out of
Ober Burnhaupt (Burnhaupt Le-
HaupD, and also from their trenches
there into their old positions. We
took 100 prisoners in the fighting at
Ober- Burnhaupt.
RUSSIAN
On the left bank of the vistula
River, along the front from Soukha
as far as Mogilnica, the fighting Is
becoming more stubborn. In spite of
their great losses, the Germans are
attacking our trenches.
The Russians are making counter
attacks and are repulslng the enemy
with their bayonet charges. In the
region of Mogilnica the Russians cap
tured several officers and more than
100 men on January Z.
In Bukowina the Russians occupied
on January 6 and have
now reached the mountains separat-
ing Bukowina from Hungary. The
fighting eliminating in the capture
of Rimpolung lasted eight days and
during that time our troops covered
a distance of so miles.
In these operations we took 1000
Austrian prisoners and a considerable
quantity of war munitions.
In the combat of Ardagan, in Trans
caucasia, 10 miles northwest of Kars,
we defeated and dispersed the compo-
nent parts of the Ottoman army,
which formed part of the list Army
Corps. This corps had been stationed
at Constantinople. A number of Bashi
Bazouks, brought from European Tur-
key, as we'll as bands of Adjar tribes
men, who have taken up the cause
Of Turkey, also fought against US at
Ardagan.
We captured a large quantity OF
war booty. The cannon made vast
pile. We captured also the officer
N command of the Turkish artillery.
other prisoners included several dozen
and we captured also a large
lumber of soldiers. We buried more
han 1900 bodies OF the enemy's troops.
regiment of Siberian Cossacks de-
lvered a brilliant charge These men
'dDTeu seNtTdl companies Oh Ine en-
my and captured the nag of the Sth
Regiment.
AUSTRIAN
The situation is unchanged. An at
ack by strong Russian forces across
he heights east of Czeremcha was
epulsed by our counter-attack. We
aptured 400 prisoners and 8 machine
-uns
In the southern theatre a Servian
light attack on our advanced post
ear Avtovao completely failed.
sERVIAN
Strong forces of the enemy occupied
he small island OF Ada Tziglia, near
Belgrade, on January 9, Small de-
achments OF our troops surprised
nd routed the Austrians during the
light of January 4, capturing 45 sol
iers. a sergeant major and two SER