Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-01-09
ALLIED FORCES
LOSE At ARGONNE
STEADY FORWARD MOVEMENT
CONTINUES AND FRENCH
ATTACKS REPULSED.
BOTS BRULES FOREST TAKEN
Paris Reports Artillery Duel So Fierce
That Infantry Dare Not Leave
the Trenches.

Berlin, Jan. (By Wireless) AZ
vances have been made by the Ger
mans all along the line in the Argonne
district, it is officially announced. The
French have bombarded Saarburg, In
Lorraine, west by northwest from
Strassburg. The official statement
follows:
All the enemy's attacks among the
sand dunes near Nieuport we're re-
pulsed. In the Argonne district we
have made further progress all along
the line. Fierce French attacks north
OF Verdun. near ALLY. near Apremont
and north Of Commercy all were re-
pulsed with heavy loss to the French.
We captured 100 privates and thirty
three officers We are now in posses
sion Of Bots Brules. for which We have
been contending so stubbornly.
a less important engagement has
/ taken place southwest of Saarbure.
which resulted favorably for us. The
French artillery had been svstemati.
| cally bombarding Saarburg, which lay
behind our front. Their fire killed fifty
persons who had taken shelter from
the cannOnade.
The French official report that the
French forces have advanced step by
step at the village Of SteinGach, is I'M
true. Not single house has been lost
by us at Steinbach. All French at
tacks there have been repulsed.
Paris, Jan. ARTILLERY conflicts
have ragged along the entire battle
front from the sea to the Vosges dur
ing the past forty-eight hours to the
almost utter exclusion of infantry at
tacks. So furious have been the bonn
bardments and the reply of the hostile
guns, and at such short range. that to
| send the foot troops into the field of
fire at any of the various storm cen
| ters OF the general battle would be
| suicidal Moreover, the open fields
over which troops might advance have
| been turned into great seas of mud.
! honeycombed with trenches and sap
/ pers' tunnels and furrowed and blast.
ed by exploding shells until passage
| across them is almost impossible.
Cannonade is Furious.
Tonights official statement reports
a furious cannonade by the Germans
against the allies earthworks to the
east of Vermelles between Bethune
and Lens) and in the region to the
north OF Chaulnes Here the Germans
opened with their big guns a terrific
! fire, followed by a raking storm from
the machine guns posted in their
trenches, but the French reply was so
terrific that the invaders we're pre-
vented from following their cannonade
with an assault in force.
Troops Held Stationary.
On the Flanders front the French
and Belgian troops operating in front
of Newport were stationary during
the entire day. while the artillery ex-
changed shots with the Germans,
neither side being able TO dislodge the
hostile forces. At St. Georges the
German bombardment has ceased and
the allies are Strengthening the posi-
ton
Battle Like Earthquake.
Arras. Albert and Roye were impor
tant centers Of the conflict In the en-
yirons of each of these towns. all OF
which are of great value strateglcany
the fields were dug up and blasted by
the explosion Of grenades and shrap
mel until the region appeared as If al
earthquake had struck it, On the road
between Beaumetz and Archicourt two
wagons loaded with shells supplying
the French artillery were blown up by
a German shell. and whole sector
of the highway blasted by she terrif,
explosion which followed.
Germans Victorious in Poland.
London. Jan. 4-The withdrawal o
three German army corps from before
Warsaw was due to a change of tao
tics by Field Marshall Won linden
berg.
The effort to take Warsaw has no
been abandoned The German fielC
marshall has diverted troops to Ger
winsk on the Vistula. north Of War
saw, and Groitzy on the Vistula
south OF Warsaw He is attacking
with all his strength toward the Rus
sian fortresses at NOvo Georgevesl
and lyangorod
Take Strong Position.
These two forts command the ap
proaches to the unfortiied Polish cap
itaL The Germans rave captured al
important Russian position at Boil
NOV. The Germans are everywher,
holding their own in Poland.
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