The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-01-01
Aviaior Sent Not One Down
Upon Dover City


Dover The guns in the forti-
fications fired upon the hostile
aircraft, but the aeronaut es-
capped. No serious damage was
done by the bombs. Dover is
sixty miles from London.
This German raid from the air
on Dover Is the first news of
authentic character of any hos
tile aircraft visiting great Brit
ain. The machine came from
the direction Of Deal, and was fly
ing very high. II was not sighted
from Dover until II suddenly
emerged from the clouds. Ap-
parentIy Dover Castle was the
objective of the raid. The bomb
thrown from the aeroplane fell
In the rear of st. James rectory,
which Is located directly In front
of the castle. The windows In
the rectory and several houses
were broken.
Although accounts vary as to the
present status of military affairs In
Poland, IL is evident that the scene
of the heaviest fighting has shifted
southwark from sSochacezew, a, town
ON the BZura river, thirty miles from
Warsaw, toward which the Germans
for several days have directed their
principal efforts.
Germans Meeting Resistance.
Austro. December 24-The Ger
man forces operating from Cracow
base are attempting to push north
ward into Poland. In this effort,
however. they are meeting with de-
termined resistance from the Rus
slams. A semi-efficial statement from
Petrograd says that Russian sue
cesses i'm Galicia continue and that
In the Carpathians the Austrians
have been thrown back. Another
sortie by the garrison at Przemysl,
which has long been under attack
by the Russians, In said to have re-
suited disastrously for the Austrians.
Heavy fighting continues in France
and Belgium but thus far renewed
activities have accomplished little.
neither side being able to drive the
other from the strongly fortified po-
sitions each has held so long.
Statement BY French.
Paris. December pa French Of
fetal statement, issued this after
noon recites a series of French sue
cesses of apparently minor import
ance from the sea OH the north to
the frontier of Alsace on the south.
The locations. where the French
troops gained an advantage are given
as Lys, I'm the region of the Aisne,
I'm Champagne, near Perthes, i'm the
Argonne, I'm the forest of Apremont,
also near Stdie. Fog prevented
lighting near Arras and Verdun.
There has been artillery activity
southeast of AmiensN and near Villa
Sur-Tourbe, also i'm forest of Apre-
mont.
BattIeship II Torpedoed.
London. December 24.-An official
statement issued i'm Paris late today
says that an Austrian submarine
torpedoes a French battleship was
Gulf of 0tranto. The battleship was
damaged only slightly. No one was
killed. The Gulf of Otranto is in the
Adriatic at the southern end of Italy.
The Capture OF LODI.
Lodz, Russian Poland. Monday tBy
Automobile Courierto Posen, Prussia
December %, and London, December
2D.-The capture Of Lodz, according
to a declaration made by General
Won Hipdenburg, the German CON-
mander. to the correspondent of The
Associated Press, was the turning
point of the campaign In Poland.
The Russian lines I'm Northern Po-
land rested on this city, for the po-
session of which there occurred
one of the most bitter struggles of
the entire war I'm this front. The
Russians made a most obstinate re-
sistance ON their part, but we're forced
20 evacuate the town, and a general
Russian retirement i'm the direction
of Warsaw became necessary.
There's Little Change
London, December "a. = Christmas
eve finds little change in the warfare
now being wsged IN the western theatre
of war where General Joffre, the
French commander, still appears to be
cautiously feeling for an opening in its
strongly intrenched German line across
France and Belgium. In the east the
tupreme German effort continues to be
made before Warsaw, where the forces
of the German center and the Russians
are seeking to check them, sway back
and forth along the banks of the rivers
barring the way to the Polish capital.
Berlin, Dec. 24.-Among the items
given out for publication by the OFF,
cial press bureau were the following:
According to a Constantinople dis
patch to the Frankfurter Zeitung the
army under the command of Minister
OF Marine Djemal Pasha has begun
march from Damascus toward the
Suez canal. A brother OF the sheik OF
the Senussi Is a member OF Djemai's
staff.