The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-02-03
RESUMES ATTACKS
GERMANS IN THE WEST AND
AUSTRLANS IN THE EAST:
BATTLE IS SANGUINARY
French Report Attacks in Force By
Germans and Petrograd Tells OF
Pronounced Activity On Part Of
Austrians-Germans Claim Sons.
Gains.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. claim SONS:
Gains. ~
ssPetrograd reports: There has
been pronounced activity along the
entire Austrian front of 800 miles
during the last few days. This is re-
garded here as marking the initia-
ton Of the plan for an Austro-Ger
man offensive movement believed to
have been adopted recently with the ].
object of clearing the Russian invad- Z.
ers from Bukowina, eastern Galieia
and northern Hungary.
In Galicia, however, between the
rivers Vistoka and Jasiolka, approx
mately 80 miles east of the Dunapec, s
Gen. Brojevitz, commander OF the
fourth Austrian army, has under
taken a forward movement toward
Przemysl. Whether this is am at
tempt to relieve Przsmysl, under siege
several months, or to force the RUS
SLAMS to withdraw from Bukowina is
not yet clear.
Simultaneous attacks are record
ed on the Russian positions in Buko-.
wilma, in the vicinity Of Kimpulung
and on the south Polish provinces OF
Radon and Nelce, along the line
from Inowlodz to Konskie and thence
to SobkoW, where heavy artillery7en-
gagements have occurred.
sNorthward there appears to bave
been little change. Northwest OF
! Warsaw, from Radzanowo to Deb-s,
rzyn, on the Vistula, the Germans.
| ~%; %]n
left bank Of the Vistula west OF War
saw and along the Rawka the Ger
mans are stubbornly attempting to
advance. Between Borgimow and
Gumin, 25 miles west of Warsaw, ,-des-
perate hand-to hand fighting is :rs-
ported. The village Of Borjimow has
] changed hands several times as the
armies surged back and forth. at
last reports it was not occupied By
either side, as neither Of the oppos-s
ing. forces is able to hold It.
s'No less stubborn is the action on
the line between Granow and Kurd-
vanov, southeast of Sochaczow. IN
this vicinity the Germans are said to-
have moved forward in the open, over
fields strewn with the dead, many OF
whomedied by freezing. The pro-
gress made here, as the fight went on
between the lines Of trenches, was
slight. Neither the Germans nor the
Russians were able to gain more than
a few yards" ~
Berlin reports: ''In East Prussia
the Germans claim to have inflicted
heavy losses on the Russians IL en-
gagements to the northeast Of Cum
binner, which lies about 200 miles
west of the Russian border.
!. News dispatches from Vierne say
that Austro-H Hungarian succe.. IN
Bukowina have given hard blow; to
Russian prestige in Roumania. The
reported victory is regarded in Vien-
ma. the dispatches say, as ending for
a long time Russian offensive move-
ments in Bukowina and preventing
all further attempts to invade Trans
ylvania Russian losses at Kirlibaba
are reported heavy"
London reports: 'TLe 11th hour
stifening Of the Austrian front to
check the Russian invasion Of Hun
gary as the natural sequence Of the
occupation Of Bukowina seems for
the present to be the event Of chief
military Importance. All recent dis
patches from Petrograd have empha-
sized the Austro-German o7e siVe In
the southeastern theatre.
Second in importance, perhaps,
are the Russian movements near the
East and West Prussian frontier, OF
which the German statement takes
cognizance although insisting that no
new advances into German territory
are feared
"The Russiansrare making another
effort to advance in East Prussia,
while in Poland there has been a
slackening in the fighting or; both
sides for the moment. The Russians
appear to be concentrating them
selves on their offensive nsrth Of the
lower Vistula, while the Austro-Ger-
mans are preparing to meet the Rus
sian advance through the passes OF
the CarpathiaLs. and in southern
Bukowina."
Paris reports: "Gounterattacks by
British troops in which they regained
positions lost by them Monday were
the features of Tuesday nights off,
cial French report from theswar Of
ice.
'"The report also announces a par
tial advance for the G.. ,ans in the
Craonne region, followed by deter
mined rush by the French which re-
gained most of the ground lost. The
same storys is told in regard to the
operations in the Argonne, where the
French are said to have retaken q
foothold on ground previously lost:
Generally increased activity along
the western battle front was report
ed. The initiative rested withSshe
Germans, who IN some sections de-
livered as many as five successive at
tacks of great violence. It Is said all
these assaults were met successfully
except in the region Of Craonne,
where the Germans succeeded In pen
etrating the trenches Of the Allies
and holding some Of the ground gain
ed
"Bombardment ~ the Germans Of
the Alsation town Of Sennheim, six
miles southwest Of Thann, Indicates
they may have made some progress
in this region also"
Beriln reports: SanSu1nary uSnt.
ing continues in Alsace, on the east
ern end of the battle line, which e1-
tends from the North sea to Switzer-
land, according to the official stase-
ment siven out at the German gen.
eral army headquarters.
"1'ne Germans claim to haye, re-
pulsed all the attacks in this region
and that the French have suffered
heavy losses. In the centre Of the
battle line in France the Germans
concede the loss of a trench to the
southwest Of Berry-au-Bac.
"In the western theatre the enemy
following his custom placed Middel-
kirke and Westende Tin Belgiuml un-
der fire Monday. large number Of
the inhabitants were killed or injur-
ed by this fire; they including the
burgomaster of Middelkirke
"Our losses were small. Our