Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1915-01-15
GERMANS RE0CCUPYT0WN
OF STEINBACH IN ALSACE
Allies Within Nine Miles Of OFFEND
When Germans Are Said to Have :
Evacuated City-Heavy Rains /
and Thaws Cause Deep Mud 5,
That Impedes Fighting. "

Tam, adding that the Won der
Tam has been sunk.
Germans Evacuating Ostend.
London, Jan. 11.-German civil
ians are leaving Ostend because the
allies have now advanced within
nine miles of that town, according
to dispatch to the Amsterdam Tel
egraf from its Sluis correspondent.
Berlin, Jan. 11.-(By wireless to
Sayville, L. 1.-THE Germans have
finally succeeded in fully reoccupy-
ing the Alsacian town Of Steinbach,
according to dispatch received
here from Basel, Switzerland.
The message adds that the French
forces retreated with heavy losses tc
Thanh.
Preparing for Invasion.
Rome, Jan. 1.-THE Turks are
Fastening the construction of three
railroad lines across the Sinai pc.
ninsula, according to a dispatch to
the Giornale d. Italia, from its Cairo
correspondent.
According to this report the
Turks expect to be ready for an in.
vasion of Egypt by the second fort
night in February.
1t is stated that Turkish and Ger
man emissaries are promising Egypx
complete independence.
Rumania May Join Allies.
London, Jan. 11.-Should Ruma-
MIA, now that the Russians are on
the border, If not actually in Tran
sylvania, decide to participate in the
war on the side Of the allies. her
army will prove the missing link in
the chain of troops winding from the
Baltic to the Adriatic, distance,
roughly, Of 1900 miles.
Greece and TURKEY Clash.
Other developments are expected.
The relations between Greece and
Turkey have reached the breaking
point over the alleged ill-treatment
of Greeks in Asia Minor.
Italy is growing restless over Tur-
keys delay in giving satisfaction
for the violation If the Italian con.
sulate at Hodeida, from which the
British consul, who sought refuge
there. was forcibly removed.
Important Operations.
While there are no reports Of
startling developments on the bat
tlef1eld, there are extremely i'm
portant operations now in progress
in both east and west. The Ger
mans, simultaneously with the re-
newal of their attacks on the left
bank of the Vistula, are developing
new offensive from the direction
Of Mlawa on the East Prussian from
frontier, which the Russians are at
tempting to counter.
French Advance Fronts.
bardment of the German positions
between the Disc and the western
end of Argonne, and after suffering
several repulses, have advanced
their fronts at several points, par
ticularly to the east of Rheims,
where their progress has been slow
but steady. In Eastern Argonne,
the Germans have been making a
similar advance.
Covered With Mud.
Vienna. Jan. II (via London) -
The Austrian war department today
gave out the following official state
ment dealing with the military op-
eratiOns in Russian Poland and Ga
licia:
Thaw and Rains.
continuous thaw, accompanied
BY torrential rains, has converted
the whole theater Of war in Poland
and Galicia into a sea Of mud. Quiet
prevails along the line from the low
or Vistula to Uszook pass.
Even the Carpathian mountains
are free from snow and swollen
mountain streams pour from the
SUBMITS, flooding the valleys. These
conditions, combined with the dense
fogs. have completely stopped all
military operations.
Repulso Night Attack.
"ln West Galicia, where verv
short distances separate the oppos-
ing forces, our troops yesterday re-
pulsed night attack by the enemy
on the heights to the northeast OF
Zakliczyn.
IAN artillery duel north of the
eVistula continues. In Russian Po-
lana the Russians have mounted
machine guns in a number of church
steeples. thus inviting their destruc-
ton"
Progress Important.
The progress which the French
again report in the vicinity Of FIJI
reg, In the Woevre district, il Of par.
ticular importance. for SHOULD it
continue. they will cut the road
which links st. Mihiel with Metz.
ana may compel the Germans to
evacuate st. Mihiel which they gain
ed long ago at a great cost.
The Germans have sent reinforce
ments to Alsace, where the French
advance has threatened to cut of
MIelhaussen from the rest of the
German line. and have occupied
Burnhaupt-Le-I---t.