The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-01-01
ALLIES OCCUPY
CITY IN BELGIUM
French Troops Take 81. Georges
Other Gains Reported.

RUSS CHECK FOE ON yISTULA
Petro9eaG Says Austrians Are tiUried
Back in Carpathians-Vicnna In De
nia!-Two British SHIPS ala.s in
Eorth Sea by mires--ssii-zsrd -
ing in France ana Getgi
q CAN Of more than two miles by the
att.e0 in Belgium; violent bomG1rd-
nnenr by Ihe Germans OF The allies
positions along the main read from
toys 20 Ainiens; recaptuTe by the
allies OF the village OF ~. Gel SIS
and CT lost trenches after Vic.c..-
charges and counter charges, sra
SUBSTANTIAL gains in the Aisace els
trict, were reported in an official
communique which electrified Paris.
Two more steamships have struck
mines in the North Sea. The Britis'l
steamship Linaria, which was las:
reported at MarseIIes on Nov. q,
struck one of the floating mines and
sank at some point which is not !c-
Gated in the official statement. Its
crew was rescued. The Glasgow
steamer Gem was also destroyed by
q mine. Two Of its crew were res
cued The others are missing.
LONDON = The Germans now
aEa ON the defensive between the Pill
lea River and the Upper Vistula, ac-
cording to reports from Petrograd.
The Russians also report the cap
ture of more than 10000 prisoners, to
which reference was made in previous
announcements.
A PetrOgrad dispatch also says that
all the important passes on the Car
pathians are again in Russian hands.
The following statement from the
Russian general staff was issued in
PctrOgrad:
"On the 9th between the lower Wis
t!Ia and the Pilicia rivers German at
tacks everywhere were repulsed The
Germans suffered heavy losses, es-
pecially during an attack to the south
west of Skierniewics.
Between the Pilicia and the Upper
Vistula the enemy has adopted the de
fensive
"Our troops stormed the village of
Szitniki, which was stubbornly defend
ed by the Austrians. The enemy has
definitely evacuated the left bank OF
the Nida
'"To the south of the Upper Vistula
on the front of Opatow-Biecz the fight
inc continues to develop to cur ad
vantage. From the 18th to the 26th
we captured there 200 officers and 15,
O0r soldiers and forty mitrailleuses
"The enemy's retreat in the region
Liske is becoming NOR and more
pl ecipitate and disorganized. On the
26th we captured in this region as
many of 5000 prisoners"
Russ Forced Back, Claim.
VIENNA - In an official state
ment the Austrian government claims
that the Russians have again been
forced back after fighting of the
fiercest character. The statement
says:
North of the DukIa pass the Aus
TRANS have avoided a series of plan.
ned Russian attacks and have main
tanned their original positions. In the
neighborhood of the Carpathian ridge
ann in the plain between the Bzura
and the Donajec rivers thu enemy has
delivered o series of fierce attacks, all
OF which have been repulsed.
On our south front there has been
few frontier skirmishes with the
Servians that have been comparative
" unimportant AT Semlin the Ser.
vians have been able to blow up a
bridge"
Allies Continue Attacks.
LONDON - General Joffre's French
troops continue their offensive
in the Argonne region while a terrific
storm is raging along the Franco-Bel.
gian battle line. They have made a
slight advance, but whether this off
sets an earlier reserve south of YpreS
is not disclosed in the official French
reports, which announce a prior gain
near the sea and capture of a trench
near Lens
The latest German report recounts
the capture of some of the allies
trenches south of Ypres and the re-
pulse of allied attacks elsewhere.
Correspondents in the rear report
that the Belgians, as a result of five
days sapping, have captured nearly
S,OCC Germans with only small losses
to themselves The fighting Christ