The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-01-05
GERMAN A|RNEN
BOMBARD DUNKIRk
SEVENTEEN BOMBS FALL UPON
FRENCH PORT; FIFTEEN
REPORTED KILLED.
SEVERE STORMS HALT FIGHT
Sharp Artillery Actions Feature Battle
Front Where Intense Cold and
Storms Do Damage TO
Both Sides.

London, Dec. 31.-Seventeen bombs
were dropped on Dunkirk by German
air raiders. Fifteen persons were kill
ed and more than thirty wounded.
The raid was carried out by five
hostile aviators, who began dropping
the missiles as soon as they arrived
over the city.
This is the most destructive attack
yet delivered by the German airmen
on the French coast
Reports from Fumes state that
German aviators also dropped two
bombs on that place, evidently in an
effort to wipe out the Belgian head
quarters, where King Albert is pres
ent. No damage was done, however.
The bombardment of Fumes, it is
thought, was by the same airmen who
raided Dunkirk.
Fight for ST. George.
Berlin, by wireless to London, Dec.
<31.-The official communication given
out by the German war office says:
In the western theater of the war
of st. Georges, to the south of Nieu-
port, which we were compelled to
evacuate owing to a surprise attack
Storm and cold have caused dam
age to the positions of both sides in
Flanders and in northern France"
Storm Hats Fight.
Paris, Dec. 31.-Sharp advances
against both TANKS of the German
marines and infantry under Grand
Duke Albrecht of Wurtemberg in the
rapidly developing offensive of the al
lies in Flanders were reported in Off
cial statements issued.
On the remainder of the battle front,
all of which is still enveloped in a
sweeping gale, sharp artillery actions
were fought
Russ Claim Advance.
Petrograd, Dec 31-The Russians
are advancing along the entire front,
including western Galicia, despite the
terrible weather, which has converted
the roads into deep mud channels. I'm
der cover of heavy artillery fire the
Germans have evacuated some of their
lines north of Bzura river Their main
forces are now extended along a curve
more distant from Warsaw, than it
was last week.
The estimate is made here that the
Austrian losses in the Carpathians re-
Gently were between 10000 and 10000.
This is probably an oversanguine
figure. Past experience has shown that
Austria-Hungary possesses astonish-
ing powers of recuperation. The strug-
gle in Europe appears to have had a
cohesive rather than a disruptiue eff
feet on her patchwork nationalities.
Expect German Attack
There is no reason to suppose that
Germany has delivered the last of aer
attacks. Her anxiety to hold back tie
operations from her own soil is or
v1ous, and as the flank on which her
allies have been beaten swings bacg
she probably will withdraw her troops
In good time and order, only that she
may better be able to prepare a fresh
blow
Though the Germans have suffered
heavily during the past few weeks, the
fighting efficiency of their larger units
has undergone no drawbacks.
The opinion in military ircles
seems to be that the profuse employ
ment of large sized shells on the
Rawka is intended to cloak a trans
verse movement of German troops
hi
furious onslaught at some other point
The Germans seem already to have
transferred the bulk of their fighting
force to the Bzura river.
luII in Eiohtino