Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-01-07
Battles on Roads to Cernay
and MueIhauSen Described
as Most Violent and Bloody
on Record,
ARTILLERY AND MINING
FEATURE OTHER FRONTS
Russians Are Pressing Ger
mans Near MIawa Near
East PruSSian Frontier, Say
Official Reports,

London. Jan. GO;4O p. M -
Apart from the Russian victory over
the Turks In Trans-Caucasia, which
is described in a dispatch to the Rus
sian embassy from Petrograd as cone
plete," interest in the war now lies
chiefly in the stubborn fight which
the French and Germans are carrying
on for the roads to Cernay and Muel-
hausen in upper Alsace.
The battle in that region, which
has been raging for a week is de-
soribed in a Berlin dispatch as the
most violent of the war. The Ger
the trenches which they had lost. but
on the whole the French reports APP
pear TO show that the forces of France
maintain their advantage for every
inch of which they had to fight in
many cases with the bayonet.
Tide of Battle Continues.
Along the rest of the western front
the tide of battle continues to ebb and
flow. On either side of Rheims, par
ticularly to the east of that harassed
city, according to reports, the French
daily push their lines n few yards
forward, while in the Argonne. where
hard fighting is going on first the
Germans and then the French report
the capture of the others entreneh-
ments.
Another region where the French
seemingly keep nibbling away at the
German lines is in the Woevre, where
tho gains reported by them last might
and again today when consolidated,
must have gone long way toward
rendering the Germans long occupa-
ton of st. Mihiel on the Meuse Tess
comfortable.
Russian Offensive ut Mlawa.
The Russians, with all their other
fronts to cover, have found another
army with which to take the often
sive against the German position at
Mlawa on the East Prusslan frontier
and tonight report the capture or
village on the road to that town.
The Germans still are hammerlng
at the Russian line directly across
the roads to Warsaw from the west
but, it is reported. with less fierce be-
hind them. In western Galicia, how
ever, where they have reinforced the
Austrians, they have held up the Rus
sian advance near Gorlice.
In southern Poland wet weather has
intervened and put stop to the fight
ing. Neither side Is able to move
there, owing to the high water and
the mud.
Austrians Are Retrcating.
The Russians continue to drive the
Austrians through the snow-coyered
passes of the Carpathians and out Of
Bukowina. and simultaneously are
dealing in detail with the remnants Of
the Turkish armies in Trans -Caucasia,
which are reported either to have
been routed or surrounded
The Turkish dash into this distant
province of Russia is described py
military men here as having been an
unwise maneuver Military opera
tions in that part of the world would
be difficult in this season at any time,
they say but this year with a particu-
larly severe winter raging, there was
little chance of the poorly equipped
Turkish troops succeeding in their ef-
forts
Altogether the Russians engaged
the Turks IN ten pitched battles. in
many cases while knee deep In snow
and at an altitude of from six thou
sand to ten thousand feet.
In the realm of international poli-
tics, the next move by Rumania Is
awaited with interest while the ar
rest of the Cardinal MERCER primate
of Belgium, is attracting worldwide
attention