The state herald., 1915-01-01
FRENCH FOIL
Two ATTACKS
DOUBLE BLOW STRUCK AFTER
ENEMY STORMS TRENCHES
ALL NIGHT.
GERMANS DROP BOMBS
ALLIES FLYERS ATTACK METZ
BRUSSELS AND OTHER
POINTS.
western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
London, Dec. 2S.-Two violent 1t
tacks, following an all-night lombard.
ment of La Boisselle and adjacent
trenches, were repulsed Sunday aftei
1t seemed for while that the attempt
of the Germans to break the French
lines would be successful. The enemy,
which had been receiving reinforce
ments for three days, evidently has
launched the blow upon which 1t was
western theatre OF war.
The airmen of the bclligerent coun.
tries spent busy Christmas season
While solitary German flew over the
Thames estuary and dropped single
bomb which fell in roadway and did
no damage. a convoy of seven British
navy sea-planes visited the German
naval base at Cuxhaven and dropped
| bombs on ships and gas-works. All but
one of the British airmen returned
safely to the ships which conveyed
them.
Similar activity was displayed along
the battlefront. German airmen paying
a surprise visit to Nancy; French ayi'
ators to Metz; British to Brussels and
other Belgian towns occupied by the
Germans, and German airmen to Pol.
ish cities.
! AS usual, the accounts OF the air.
( men of the damage done differ from
Af 81 ntu nf hn
/ tory attacked. While bombs were
dropped during these flights. most OF
the flights were made for the purpose
of reconnoiterlng. The allies, who are
ON the offensive in the west, are natu.
rally desirous of knowing when and
where the Germans are moving their
reinforcements, the arrival of which at
the front has been the signal fol
many German counter attacks.
The French war office issued an
other cheerful report, saying the en-
emy at La Bosselle had been com
pletely defeated. The report added:
Between the sea and the Lys. the
day was calm. and cannonading inter
mittent
Between the Meuse and Moselle. &c
the east OF st. Mihiel. two German at
tacks against the Notifications OF the
burnt woods were repulsed.
'In Russia the Germans who re
sumed their march upon Mlawa have
reoccupied that city.
"The situation IN Poland remains
without notable change. The violence
OF the battle on the Bzura and the
Rawka has diminished.
In the Central Pilica region the bat
tie. on the contrary. continues keen
except upon the lower Nida.
"on the whole Gallcian front the
struggle is developing under condL
tons favorable to the Russians"
London.--A German aeropiane was
sighted Friday At 1855 o'clock. II
was flying very high from east TO west
over Sheerness. British air craft went
up In pursuit and engaged the enemy
who, after being hit three or -four
times, was driven off seaward.
Great crowds In the streets wit
messed the battle In the sky which
drove back the invader and prevented
the initial demonstration In the long
expected raid on London. In many
quarters panic spread when the com
Ing OF the nirship was announced.
The fight IN the air was one which
ten years ago would have been con.
sidercd one OF the widest imagining
OF fiction.
Three acroplanes. one German and
two British. were flying overhead at
seventy miles an hour almost n mile
In the air. The German taubc was
moving more swiftly than the others
which swung above II. The British
were splitting fire, while the German
was unable to reply on account OF the
strategic position OF the pursucrs.
When the German first came In
sight the antiaireraft guns fired sew
oral shots. but after the British aero
planes gave chase Il was impossible &c
flro without danger of hitting thom
The spectacle lasted only five min
uten. The German lodged and twisted
In nm effort 10 escape, but tho British
were on both sides pouring In rapid
volleyr, The speed Mt which the aero
planes were travelling made the nim
uncertain. bu, one OF the British ma
chimes awoopod down close to the Ger
man and pumped In several hho,a n,
close range.
Clad In every variety OF garment IA
keen wnrm including Turkish rob.s
aud wldofiowins curish coats. the
Russians are huddlinf In every ahet
ter.
london.-chrintmas brought no rosi
10 the embat,lcd European armies. II
found tho Russians ntill fighting des
poratoly In the HnovH of Poland