Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-01-28
Official Statement Tells OF
Big Gains in Eastern
War Field.
MANY ADVANCES
ARE CLAIMED
Statement From Paris Com
pares the Victories
of Two Countries.

Paris, Jan. 22.-The French army of
invasion in Alsace has penetrated to
the town of Hartmanns Weller, fifteen
and one-half miles from the Rhine.
The town which commands two high
roads, is northwest of Mulhausen. III
spite of winters seventies. the inva-
sion is being pressed determinedly
and the French are slowly but surely
! digging their way to Muelhausen and
Altkirch
The operations in Alsace are the
most interesting feature of the Off
cial reports of the day, although heavy
fighting in other principal districts
was unusually violent and notably adj
vaLtageous to the allied arms. Ii
! Flanders the deadlock continues and
there have been little more than
desultory artillery exchanges.
Northwest Of Arras, at Notre Dame
| dc Loretta, the French have main
| tanned themselves in a position re-
taken from the Germans. On the
night Of Jan 10 the French stOrmed
the plateau and turned defeat into
victory. An official German statement
claimed success at Notre Dame de
LOrette, but it is officially stated here
| that the German report was untrue
that German attacks were repulsed
and company Of Germans captured.
Germans Admit Loss of Trenches.
| The German official statement is
sired later admits the loss Of trenches
which had been captured at Notre
Dame de Lorette on Jan. 10.
There has been rather heavy fight
ine in the Champagne country east Of
Rheims. The government reports that
! the Germans were driven from two
wooded positions north of the farm
of Beauseiour and we're defeated in
counter assaults.
Avlaors Blow Up German Depot.
| A very important success was
gained by French aviators who locat-
| ed the position of German ammun1-
! tion depot in the region Of Prosnes
and destroyed it with bombs. Stimuli
taueously the Germans we're driven
from some field forests and trenches.
! In the Argonne the Germans at
tackled near st. Hubert, their infantry
charging after their artillery had
pounded the French positions. The
charge was met by artillery and in
fantry fire which the Germans were
unable to withstand
= Around ST. Mihiel the French made
considerable progress in the tedious
! business Of tightening the loop de-
! signed to cut off the German position
on the Mouse, advancing $50 yards in
the forest Of Apremont. Twenty yards
OF newly occupied ground we're lost,
| however, northwest Of Pont-a-Mous-
SON.
The report Of the afternoon was a
detailed statement Of generally sue
cessful operations Wednesday near
Arras in the Champagne country,
near ST Mihiel and In Alsace. The
outstanding feature was the report CT
heavy fighting in Alsace and steady
progress of the French invaders.
French Resume Claims Great Gains.
Paris, Jan. 22-The French war Of
fee in an official resume under the
title of 1.-THE War from Nov. IS to
Jan Is" gives in broad detail the
movements IF the allied troops in that
period and then reports this important
cCnclusf0n:
"The German offensive has bean
broken: the German defensive will
be brOler in its turn"
The military authorities advise the
French peonle and their allies that
"to Obtain final victory it is sufficient
that France end her allies know how
to wait for it and at the same time
prepare for it with inexhaustible pa
tierce"
The general advances Of the allies
ere designated and the assertion is
made that tho Germans made twenty
general Withdrawals during the two
months. with the execution of the sit
uation at SCISSORS Big gains are
Iclaimed hy the French west Of
| Rheims, in the Argonne and in Al
SAGE.
Perhaps you have noticed a sigh of
relief in the neighborhood of the school
buildings. For some days the pupils
have gone to school with their heads
crowded with all sorts of knowledge
and the teachers have been trying to
find out how much they knew. The
examinations are over for the first half
of the year and the report cards will
come later to be read at the family
Ihresides.