Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-01-07
LULL in FIGHTING,
ENGLAND LOSES
ANOTHER BIG SHIP
Allies Waiting for New Ar
mics Along the French
Belgian Coast
How Best to Handle Belgian Refugees
One Of Great Rritain,s Ser
ious Problems.

1
ious Problems.
There has been a lull in the fight
ing for the past few days, although
headline writer's have been busy try
ing to put up interesting front page
screamers on but lfimsY reports as a
basis. &
1t is admitted, however, that Eng
land has lost another big lighting
ship, the Formidable. as result
either Of coming INTO contact with a:
mine or with torpedo from a Ger
man submarine.
Germany seems to have started out,
SO far as the present sea fighting is
concerned, to pick of the English
ships pieeemeal-and The warm cham
pions of the, German cause believe
that Germany will accomplish its pur-
pose and will succeed eventually in
materially reducing the sea strength
of its powerful adversary
Still, England is conceded to be
mistress of the seas, and many Of
her powerful sea lighters Will have
to be picked off before her sea
obl DSSS QOMl1
parity with that of the German alli-
ance.
irreconcilabie Statements.
sssss London, Jan. tterlY irreconcil.S
able are the assertions Of the con-
4 tending armies in the east. In the
west the lInprecedent wet weather
preclndes operations which would,
II
OF, the other. The battle OF the riy-;
ers m Poland has not yet come to-
an end.
Germans Pass Baiiaow.
The Germans say they have taken
Borjimow, northeast of Bolimow, a
strong Russian positio east of Low,
iez, and a step nearer saw. This
4 IN ituss sIans con anlct +, sssay g.
that German assaults there have been
repulsed with heavy losses and that
4 elsewhere the Teutons nave been
held at bay. Berlin continues to re-
port progress, and the Russian state.
ment today Indicates the Germans
l have passed BolimoW, onS of the
towns which the Russians were de-
Tending obstinately last week.
e 81 N
Says Battle is Near End.
I'VE I'VE Petrograd processes to see an end
of the battle of the Polish rivers and
a concentration of German forces at
some other strategic point In a re-.
neWed attempt to break through, but
like the predictions of what this side
or the other proposed to do in Bel
gium and France, this must be ciassed
as q guess. 5
Predict Hungarian Invasion.
In the region of Uzsok pass and
Rostokf, south Of Lisko, the Russians
claim some progress, and the capture
Of 1000 prisoners and some war ma
terial. British observers, say the oc-
cupation Of Uzsok pass should mean
an invasion Of Hungary in real force.
Up to the present time detachments
of Russian cavalry have crossed the
Garpathians, but there never has been
an invasion Of Hungary in strength.
The Russians today report their Of y
I fensive in Bukowina continues
French Admit Failure.
Both Berlin and Paris statements
today assert the situation in the west
ern theater, with the exception Of ar
tillery combats at various points, was
comparatively quiet yesterday. The
French admit failure In the attempt
to occupy q German position iii the
Mense country, and claim further
gains ait Steinbach. Berlin today ad
mits the French have made gains in
Steinbach, and adds that fighting for
The village continues The French