The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1915-02-11
HARD FIGHTING
on The vIsTULA
Petrograd Reports Violent En-
gagements on Right
Bank 0f-River.
RUSSIANS REpUlSE GERMANS
slavs Also Claim Success in carpa.
THAN Campaign-Austrians Win
Artillery Fight-Turks in
Full Retreat in Egypt.

Full Retreat in Egypt.
Petragrad, Feb 9.-The following
communication from the general head.
quarters staff was issued last night
On the right bank Of the Vistula, in
the region of Serpetz, the engage
ments have assumed character of
increased violence. Vanguard encoun-
tiers are also reported on the Khor.
jele- Observation-Disclosures line.
The attempt to pierce the front in
the region Of Borjimow and VIOLA
Szydlowiecka, which began January
II, was stopped February in spite of
important forces which were brought
into the action. We owe this success
to the gallantry of our troops. In. that
particular encounter the Germans
made extensive use of explosive bull
lets.
In tire Carpathians our offensive is
proceeding. On the Mezola borcz-Lu.
toWisko front we captured several
strongly fortified position and about
sixty officers, more than $500 men
and eleven machine guns.
Austrians Claim Success.
Vienna, Feb. Git was officially an
nounced today that the situation in
Western Poland and Galicia remained
unchanged.
Our heavy artillery" says the state
hent, has successfully bombarded the
region around Tarnow and has also
made good practice. against the Rus.
sian troops.
During our further progress in
Bnkowina our columns Reached the w.
per suczawa Valley and captured four
hundred prisoners
The Turkish Army in a Rout
London, Feb a.-The official press
bureau has made public an official dis.
patch received from Cairo which
states that the Turkish army is in full
retreat eastward. There are no enemy
forces within twenty miles of the Suez
Canal, the dispatch says, except small
retiring rearguards.
Germans Shifting Troops.
Petrogrsd, Feb. S.-The stubborn
character of the battles developing in
the extreme north of East Prussia is
attracting the attention of the Russian
general staff, which sees there indica-
tons that the Germans have with
drawn troops from the Bzura region
and massed them in the vicinity Of
insterburg, between Gumbinnen and
Tilsit.
The operations here are becoming
new factor in the situation and lead to
the belief that the fierce attack on
Borjimow and Goumne was more in
the nature of demonstration than a
serious effort to break through toward
Warsaw. At Borlimow the Russians
appear to be more than holding their
own, having pierced the German sec
ond line trenches.
Military observers. reviewing the en-
tire situation, declare it is satisfactory
on the whole, although. they are not
of the opinion that the crisis has ar
rived
In spite of the activity OF the Ger
mans further north. staff officials still
movement in the Carpathians. where
the Russian armies are opposing the
who are in tremen
dous force on line which forms the
arc of circle in the vicinity of Mezo
Laborcz, fifty miles southwest Of
Przemysl.
Austro-German Still Fight.
Further eastward there appears to ,
be an entirely separate army about |
ninety miles south of T.emberg. on the |
line (Austria-Hun
gary). The purpose of the latter
force appears to be an effort to pierce |
The Russian line east OF Lemberg and
menace the forces about Warsaw in
he rear.
The Russians are awake to this pos
sibility, however, and recently rushed
several corps toward this front. On
all the Carpathian front
he Russians have succeeded in check
ng their antagonists, but the Austro-
Germans are still undefeated.
Russians Claim Gains.
London, Feb. 6.-Coincident with
he arrival at the front of Emperor
the Russians have assumed
he offensive directly west of Warsaw
md. according to Russian official
statement, have crossed the Bzura
liver and taken some German posi-
ions.
Artillery engagements and q few
mall infantry attacks make up the
um of the operations on the Western
ront.