Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-01-28
Struggle lust Begun May
Mark Turning Point
in the Campaign
HALT RUSSIANS SWEEP
AuStrO-6eTman Plan to Shift
Weight of Attack From Gen.
tral Poland to the South.

London. Jan. ga great battle has
Developed in Gaiicia. along a 100 mile
front sklrting the CarDathians- This
struEzie. iu pursuance Of new Aus
trD-Germau plan OF shifting the weight
% attack from central Poland TO the
south. may mark a turning point in
the campaign tn the east
The AustrO-Germau armies. 10 sue
cessfIL would enectuaiiy cripple Rus
sa's drive az northern Hungary. In
dfc1tious are the battle is still On the
preliminary stage The Russian
sweep in Bukowina apparently hss
been halted. 4 Russian report states
artillery engagements are in progress
i1 Bukowiua. but gives no information
- 20 the outcome Meanwhile the
struggle continues in the north along
tho Warsaw front.
Iu the west. the Germans have re-
ueued assaults IN tine neigh borhood
81 SCtEs0us. where recently they won
a decisive victory. In Alsace fight
inr O. less intense on account Of heavy
SHOWS.
Victory for the Germans In two en-
eaEsmeuts along the western frontier
are announced In Berlin In the reg
ton % Craoune another section of
trenches was captured and in upper
NlsaCe the French retreated in disor-
der after suffering heavy losses. Be
tween the 25th and 27th OF January,
eays the statement. more than fifteen
hundred dead Frenchmen were found
on hattIshelds. Including those re-
ported on the 9th. 100 prisoners fell
into German hands
The French war Office claims uuin-
terrupted successes ON Jan =. ami
versary or the birth Of Emperor VII
liam. r. day on which the Germans
xe-e particularly aggressive The
French claim German casualties on
Jan -. 70 and p were no fewer than
faeuty thousand men. Al Craoune
alone they say the Germans lost 5000
men and the French 500
Turks on Three Routes
While 70 IT, not probable that any
c1rsiIe-ubre body Of Turks have yet
penetrated Sinai peninsula their ad-
vance scouts are virtually ut the edge
of fbs SIez canal. having moved along
n c1ravau route near the 1fcditerrau-
can o. is believed another column
plans on advance through the center
of fEe peninsula. while perhaps third
uiu attempt 20 reach the Suez along
m soutr~riy route All three routes are
v.fr0gt water
Desperate fighting marked yesterday
tle anniversary % Emperor Williams
birthday. at maay points on the west
--u 'front.'. bus the claims % the con
t-aJIaE armies as 90 results are widely
90 variEncr
frz.st Lion Only shis Damaged.
Reports OF the engagement In the .
North sea sunday have developed
similar discrepancy. The British ad-
m.ralty insists the battle cruiser Lion
was the only biz ship seriously dam
AGED Berlin admits Che loss OF the
cruiser Eluecher. but asserts the Ger
mfns afflicted gre-fer punishment
tlaa tlss on the English.
Emperor williams birthday Vas OBJ
served 40 headquarters yesterday With
a simple divine service iu the field
Tho Turks sustained heavy losses In
the vicinity OF Olt when their en-
veloptrE column vas thrown back u
"a officially stated az PetroErad-
in Azerbaltan province. Persia ac-
tivity % the enemy - Increasing
500 Germans Killed in Half Hour
Petrugrad. Jan 2s.-In the vicinity I
O Sochaczew. on the Bzura river. the
Germans on Tuesday broke through
into Russian trenches and were re- (
pgised only after bayonet charges 40
Atlanka. two miles north Of Soch-
aczsw. IA n battle lasting 20 minutes.
the Germans lost 500 killed In Gali-
eta engagements are developing on a {
large scale along the Carpathians Tor
distances Of 100 miles Both sidns ap-
pear TO attach great importance TO the