, 1915-02-10

London, Feb. Sth.--A French official com
@luuiqu6 says "No infantry engagement
WAS reported during Friday. From Arras
to Rheims there have been artillery
engagements with results satisfactory TO
rs. There is no change in the situation
IN the vicinity of Perthes and Massiges.
In the Ar9onne and the Woevre district our
artillery yesterday dispersed conveys of the
enemy and set fire to @ convoy train Of Is
wagons. We brought dow a captive bal
loon behind the German lines northeast of
SomInepv."
A Berlin official statement says: 1.-TWO
new French attacks which were made against
the positions taken by the Germans north OF
Massi ges remained unsuccessful. The French
attacks IN the Argonne also failed. In the
eastern arena the Russians yesterday at
tackled on the Eastern Prussian frontier and
south Of the Vistula against the German
front from Goumine to the Bzura river, but
all the attacks were Tepulsed, and we nude
LOCO prisoners and took SIX machine gum"
A Y emma official bulletin says: "Ihe
Russian attacks were renewed in the Car
pa.hians, but they have broken down with
heavy loss to the enemy. Our attacks con
tlnue II the forest region, and the prisoners
taken by us III the Curpathiuns have III
creased by 1000"
The P%etrograd correspondent Of the "Daily
News states that the terrible struggle
winch is proceeding in the region of tho
rivers Bzura and Rawka is among the great
est battles of the war. The battlefield is n
fat plain, without instructions of any kind,
and the fighting is hand to hand and of II
most desperate character, whole companies
being exterminated. German prisoners de-
clare Tint tho tyDDnc oalanIol ~ Ian,l 4ha
advance were called "The division of death,
because it was not expected that any of them
would survive. The fury Of tho incessant
German attacks reached a climax at noon
on Wednesday, General Won Mackensen
swiftly forcing u picked body of one
hundred Thousand men, backed by SIX
hundred guns Of all o%aIibros, pouring shells
without pause into an open gap in the coun-
try SIX miles wide, which has for its maiu
features a deserted dlstillery on the north,
near Goumine, aud on the south the large
monoi house Of Wolsszyd Lowskay, standing
III a wooded park near Bolimow. Through
out their advance the Germans maintained
a hurricane of shrapnel over the well CON
cealed Russian shelters, many of the one
my's gums firing shells charged with sutfo.
eating gases which caused burning pains in
the eyes, but the Russians withstood all this
and remained mistaken, even when the
Prussian Guards were brought up fresh from
Lowicz, and then, when the Germans SUI
preme effort was spent, the Russians, through
the smoke, doubled forward upon the low
broken walls around the distillery where the
Germans were working SO machine guns
and captured IA of them in a desperate fight
at close quarters. Meanwhile the Russians
Mt the southern end of the battle ground
found a weak position M the German line,
and through this they poured into the park
of Wolaszyd Lowskay, and about an hour
later the Germans were driven southwest
from the mansion, leaving 1000. They lost
about 10000 men all told, many having fall
en- 10y the bayonet along the six mile fighting
front"
The Paris "Petit Journal" says that an
attempt to blow up the French liner ola
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