The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-01-27
VAR Still QUIET
GERMANS GAIN AND LOSE FROM
THE FRENCH.

THE FRENCH.
| O1HING DOING IN EAST
Reports From the Warning Capital
Tell Of Inactivity, Although ArtI-
lery Conflicts Take Place-Ger-
mans Admit French Gain Around
St. Nihiel.
Paris reports: "a French eye-wit-
ness with official authority gives some
idea of the nature of fighting that has
| been going on in the west. He de-
scribes the fighting near Scissors 10
days ago as resulting favorably for
the Allies, but later the waters of the
Aisne, swollen by the heavy storms,
| came over the banks, washed bri-
| gades away and prevented the Allies
from sending reinforcements to points
where the French troops were being
hard pressed by the Germans. This
resulted in retirement of something
| like mile and the establishments Of
a strong front in a good strategic
position on the right bank Of the
river
Lc1don reports: Heavy snowfalls
| in France and in Flanders have con-
fined fighting almost to artillery en-
gagements."
Berlin reports on Monday: "In
the neighborhcod of Nieuport Sunday
there were artillery duels, but moth
ing else. No attacking movements
have been undertaken by the enemy
in the last few days.
British mines have been washed
ashore at several places on the coast.
cat La Boisselle, northeast Of Al
bert, our troops, who again had es-
tablished themselves in the church
yard of La Boisselle and in the ham
| let to the southwest, attacked the
French with bayonet and drove them
| from their positions. We took pris-
oners three Offices and 10 men. Sev-
eral French trenches have been cap
tured in the Argonne forest. The
French detachments occupying them
were almost annihilated.
| "The French attack on our posi-
tions to the northwest of Pont-a-
/ Mousson against hill which is two
kilometers "a mile and one-ffth)
south of velcey, advanced as far as
our trenches. This fighting is still
going on"
Paris reports: FOLLOWING the
blowing up of an ammunition depot
caused by the bursting of q she'll, that
part Of the village of La Boisselle
(about 20 miles northeast Of Amiens)
occupied by our troops was burned
and we were compelled to evacuate
it. The evacuated territory was recap
tured by US, however, in vigorous
counterattack on the morning of the
18th.
"The enemy has bombarded St.
Paul, near scissors.
"In the Champagne region some
German aeroplanes have flown over
our position They we're received by
Our cannon and machine guns and
! two of them were brought to the
ground inside our lines near Bar-Le-
Due. The aeroplanes were only
slightly damaged The four aviators
in them were made prisoners" e.
| London reports Tuesday: Though
the British and French press continue
: to discuss the probability of a fresh
: German attemp. to break through the
Il French line barring the way to Paris,
:he Germans so far have failed to fol-
low up their success about scissors
Their troops are more or less inactive
beyond the river Aisne and the only
i. activity shown in that vicinity in the
last "a hours has been the lombard
ment of St. Paul.
7 'No one believes, however, that
fighting at scissors is over. Both
sides apparently are bringing up re-
inforcements and some stiff encount-
l. ers soon should develop"
Petrograd reports: German forces
in Central Poland are continuing ef-
forts to advance west of Warsaw, be-
tween Sochaczew and Bolimow, and
,, southwest of Warsaw, between Skier
niewice and Godzisk, although their
left flank is endangered by the ad-
vance of Russian troops along the
right bank of the Vistula west OF
Plock and the position of their right
flank, according to Russian reports,
I is no longer tenable. The forward
movement of the center of the Ger
man line has been unsuccessful thus
far, having been noted by Russian
aeroplanes and checked by artillery.
All trenches which the Germans took
have been recaptured by the Rus
SLAMS.
''It is the concensus of military
opinion that the German army must
either force its WY through the Rus
sian line in the center where its
present efforts are directed or retreat
to the Wartha river which would
mean falling back to within about 25
miles of the German frontier. Rus
sian movements designed to encircle
| the German fanks will make it i'm
possible, the military men say, for
| the Germans to maintain. their posi-
| tions in the center.
tThe expected cooperation of Aus
| trian forces from the southwark has
failed to materialize. The attempted
advance Of tn, Austrians east Of
Prietrkow and in the Tarnow region
on the Dunajec, has been checked
successfully by the Russian artillery.
"Along the Immediate Warsaw
front there has been no material
change in positions recently. In the
extreme north the Russians report
steady advance toward east Prussia,
and in the extreme south they state
they are moving forward successfully
in the Carpathians.
Their northern movement has
been retarded near LoetZen by Ger
man Notifications and the general
| impenetrability of the country in the