Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-18
GERMAN

Thanh without serious result.
GERMAN
Since our enemies assumed the Of
fensive on the western front in De-
cember they have been unable 10
mako material progress at any single
point on the battle front.
On the contrary, we have made SUBJ
stantial gains We have gained from
two to four miles along q front on the
Aisne from five to nine miles in
length, and today our guns dominate
the entire valley OF the Alsne.
North of La Bassee and in the Ar
gonne we have steadily advanced SO
that at certain points we now occupy
the positions the enemy held when he
announced the assumption OF the of
fensive.
In the western theatre of war there
were only artillery duels in the neigh
borhood OF Nieuport yesterday. The
enemy has made no attacking move
ments in the last few days. English
mines have been washed ashore Mt
several places.
At La Boiselle, northeast of Albert,
we reoccupied the churchyard of the
hamlet and drove the French out of
their positions after a bayonet attack.
We took three officers and 100 men.
In the Argonne we took several
French trenches. Their occupants were
nearly annhiIated, In an attack north
west OF Pont-Au-Meusson on a hill
two hlometers south of Vilcey the
French advanced as far as our
trenches. The battle is still raging
there. CThis contradicts French
claims)
In the Vosges and upper Alsace q
heavy snowstorm and mist are inter
fering with the lighting
In the eastern theatre the situation
in East Prussia is unchanged. In
northern Poland the Russians at
tempted to cross the Skrwa near
RadSnow, but were repulsed. In the
region along the Vistula in Poland
nothing of Importance has happened.
RUSSIAN (TURK cAMPAIGN)
The battle of Kara Urgan, which
was fought for three days in a heavy
snow storm, has ended in a complete
Russian victory. The 1lth Turkish
Corps has been almost annihilated.
Thanks to the efforts of our valiant
regiments of Caucasus, Turkestan, ST.
berian and Cossack troops, the resist
ance OF the enemy was finally shat
tered and he was completely routed.
Remnants of the Turks are fleeing
toward Erzerum with our troops har-
lying their fianks and inhicting heavy
damage upon them. The enemys rear
guard Is making Intellectual attempts
to cover his retreat
Our pursuing troops are capturing
guns, ammunition and food supplies
abandoned by the Turks. They have
found in ravlnes. buried in the snow,
parts Of Turkish guns which the
enemy was unable to take away. These
have been thrown from the heights
upon which the Turks were defeated.
RUSSIAN
On the right bank of the lower Wis.,
tula we are still making successful
progress. on January 16 our advanced
parties dislodged the enemy from the
village of Budy Sulkowslxia
On the left bank OF the Vistula the
same day the enemy delivered a series
of fierce attacks against our lines IN
the region OF tho village OF Goumine.
The German forces included six regI-
ments. After seven successive attacks
and desperate bayonet engagement,
the Germans succeeded in capturing
only one trench occupied by one of our
advanced posts.
IN the other sections we repulsed the
enemy and forced them to fall back on
their positions. The Germans support
ed their attacks with violent artil-
lery fire, employing heavy guns to
search out the position where the at
tack was 10 be inauglrated
At the village of KonopnitLa. the
enemy, having approached by sappinE
TO within about 80 yards OF our
trenches, was met with a storm of
hand grenades, which checked them.
Some volunteers, avalIing themselves
or the confusion thus created, hurled
grenades into the tunnel, which the
Germans were forced to evacuate.
In the region 10 the south OF Pine
COW OPolandl. the enemy opened a vio-
lent artillery fire and made three at
tempts TO attack our advanced lines,
but were repulsed
our artlllerists silenced an Austrian
heavy battery as soon as they dlscov-
cred the range.
In BukoWina our advanced columns
'aptured by storm the KirIibaba Pass.
IN the Pennsylvania frontier, situated
m the road from Kimpolung On the
southern part OF BukoWina) TO Mara
naros-sziget (Northeastern Hungary
md Dees.