, 1915-01-20

liver another blow near Scissors. Heavy
reenforcements are heading south from Ant
Werp and Brussels, and there is an increase
an the number of troop trains from Prussia
towards the scissors front.
British off statement, through the
Press Bureau, has denied the report from
Paris, published prominently III a London
newspaper, of a success gained by the Bri-
fish hoops on Thursday in the vicinity of
La Bassee. 1t says that no attack was at
tempted in the neighbourhood of La Bassee.
A German official statement says: "Iu
the neighbourhood of Newport yesterday
there were artillery dnels only. No attack
ing moveh.e nts have been undertaken by the
enemy during the last few days. British
mines have been washed ashore in several
places on the coast. At La Boiselle, north
east Of Albert, our troops who again had es-
tablished themselves in the chulchyard OF La
BoiselIe and in o hamlet southwest thereof,
attacked the French with the bayonet, drove
them from their positions, and took prisoners
3 officers and 100 men. Several French
trenches were captured in the Argonne
forest and the French detacIlments occupy
ing them were almost mnDihilated. A French
attack on our positions northwest of POnt a
Mousson against a hill two kilometres south
of Velcey advanced as far MS our trenches,
and this fighting is still going on. Ia the
Nosgee and III Upper Alsace II heavy snow
storm and foga prevailed, interfering with
the fighting. The situation in East Prussia
is unchanged. In Northern Poland the Rus.
slams attempted to advance across q branch
of the river Skrwa near Radzanoyo, but were
repulsed".
There is official approval of the statement
by the "Nord Deutsche z situng" branding
as @ lie the report Of German atrocities by
the French Investigating Commission. The
German army, the paper says, is above being
affected by this sort of filth and it merely
notes what poisonous arms oar opponents
avail themselves of, opponents once called
-chivalrous.
A Russian official bulletin says: "Daring
the last three days of The battle Of Karaurgan
Il violent snowstOrm ragged uniuterruptediy,
but the conflict has terminated III q complete
victory for our arms, Thinks TO the efforts
of our valiant Caucasian and Turkestau tegi-
ments, as we'll as our Siberian Cossacks, the
resistance of the enemy was broken up and
his Iearguards covering his retreat we're
destroyed, while the remainder of the Turk
ish army, hard pressed on flank and rear,
fed towards ErZerum, Our troops pursuing
them found in rayines parts of the Turkish
d1llltCI1 nv A0 4ACG4LE CApibJ "0o A''O
to remove through the snow and had there
fore precipitated from the heights. The
pureuit continues"
Unofficial accounts state that the Turkish
prisoners taken at Karaurgan were scarcely
able to stand from exhaustion and hunger,
and that the officers were distracted ON &C
count of the INSTRUMENTATION OF the troops,
who threw down their rifles and fed to
the Russian lines to surrender. The Rus
slams frequently moved their field kitchens
to their first line, whereupon the Turks,
getting a Whit of hot food, threw away thor
arms and surrendered, aud upon being fed,
kissed the hands OF their captors.
The Rome "Massagero," after q careful
computation Of all the figures it has been
able to gather from the districts and villages
hitherto isolated, announces that the dead
and injured in the district of Abruzzi alone
number thirty thousand.
The sTimes' correspondent at Rome
states that thirty thousand killed is surely
underestinlated.
The fluctuations in the distribution OF cas-
ualties among The various localities contin-
.ue by hundreds, totalling thousands in the
aggregate. Avezzano is now silent, the heart
Fending appeals for rescue being heard no
longer; nevertheless fifty thousand soldiers
desperately persist, remembering that sur
vivors were found in Messina after sixteen
days. The soldiers are half famished, through
dividing their scanty ratious with those
more hungry, They work nearly twenty
four hours daily, often with bleeding
hands but yesterday saved only eight
lives, three of them babies found alive
cIinging to their dead mothers. Countless
incidents illustrate the tragedy of the
10000 killed in thirty seconds, riyalling the
battles, and the sufferings OF the survivors
dwarf those of the soldiers in the trenches.
A drizzling rain in the temperature of u high
altitude, without shelter, is producing much
disease and the work of rescue is so great
that attempts to bury thousands have been