New Britain herald., 1915-02-03
GERMAN DRIVE WINS
  :. RUSSIAN POSITIONS
 
vQl hndcnburQ's Attempt to Reach Warsaw Of No Avail.
  TRANCE AND BELGIUM QUIET

| Center of Interest in War Is Now in
 Eastern Area-German Commander
 Has Accomplishcd Little in Attacks There-Turks Fight British.
 Field Marshal Won Hindenburg's s new drive at Warsaw apparently has e% accomplished little more, thus far, that the winning of comparativel,- y few Russian advanced positions. Neither the Berlin nor the Petrogra official reports indicate that marked changes have resulted from the fight ing, which daily becomes more in tense. The German commander has chosen to make his principal assault along the front between Sochaczew, . thirty miles due west of Warsaw, and Skerniewice, a few miles to the south, -ephich is in the same section in which the Germans vainly attempted to reach Warsaw. Both sides occupy strongly entrenched positions in this :. region, where the warfare closely re- sembles that in France.
 An official Russian report of today < states that German attacks in this To- cality were repulsed in the course of \ violent battles, during which the Russians recaptured trenches previ- ssoAsly taken by the Germans.
 Russian successes also are claimed In the fighting in the Carpathians which has developed into one of the most important phases if the cam paign in the east. Russian troops are said to have made marked progress in aDukla Pass advancing over the crest of the mountain and to have repulsed a Austrian assault south of UzsoA Pass
 s.- Fighting continues between British and Turkish forces in Arabia, near the head of the Persian Gulf, where small forces of Turks have taken the offen- sive. An attack on kurna, near the junction of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, was stopped by the fire from British gunboats.
 According to the German version of the recent fighting in Poland, as given in the official report today from Ber- lin, the Russians have been forced back near Bo1imow. It is said that the Germans captured a village and < took 4,O00 prisoners Russian at lacks elsewhere, the German war of flee asserts, were. repulsed.
 Except for a general renewal Of in- fantry fighting near Perthes, which apparently was not of advantage to either side, only artillery exchanges were in progress yesterday in France and Belgium.
 English Report.
 s. London, Feb. 3, 12:50 D. m.-Brit- 1sh military experts arc unable to eX- plain the sudden and violent offensive movements begun by the Germans to the west of Warsaw, in Russian Poland, and in the vicinity of La Bassee, in the northwestern end of the battle line in France
 .a In both these regions there has been a return to the old style of Ger man battering, the men being hurled forward in close formation at great sacrifice with. British reports say lit tie permanent gains
 In Russian Poland | Germans are holding some ground in front of Warsaw which these attacks netted, but the recent German onslaughts on the western battle front, military of- fcials assert, almost invariably have resulted in failure to consolidate the positions gained.
 Von Hindenburg's Aim.
 It is suggested that Field Marshal Von Hindenburg, the German com mander, is again hamm ering toward the Polish capital with the idea of holding there Emperor Nicholas crack troops, which otherwise might be transferred to the Carpathians r where the Russians and Austro-Ger- man forces still are fighting in the mountain passes. Neither side has been able to force the other onto the plains, though the Russians claim to be more than holding their own.
 Prefer to Beat British.
 La Bassee, twelve miles south of : the Belgian border, long has been !. crucial point on the western front and the British troops congregated in the neighborhood have suffered heavily. The Germans have declared time and again that, other things be- ing equal, they would prefer to inf1ict losses upon the British and this, to- gether with the better preparation of the German by the artillery, may ac- count for the renewed slaughter.
 Russian Report. B
 Petrograd Feb. a.-sucd sses for the Russian arms in the rEgion of Warsaw and in the Carpathians are recounted in an official Russian state ment issued here today. Confirmation is given also to the report that Ger man troops have been sent to the Carpathians to assist their Austrian all lies The text of the communication follows
 The engagements in the region of Mlawa have continued favorable to our troops. On the left bank of the Vistula the battle on the roads from Bolimow proceeded on February 1 with consider ble intensity. A large number of heavy and light batteries participated energetically in the en- ga cement.