The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-01-29
GERMANS BATTER
AT ALLIES'L|NE
TGutOnS Penetrate Trenches Of
Foe Near Craonne.
AUSTRO- GERMANS TAKE KIELCE


Polish City Now in Hands of Teutonic
Allies, says Cracow Dispatch-Kuss
Take Jaccbini Province-RerIin Says
E.i.;sh L-st Three Ships in North
Sea Fight.
Greatly increased activity along the
western latte front is reported in
the o1Hciai French commune alton.
The initiative rested with the Ger.
mans, who in some sections de-
live. cd - lazy as five successive
:! Gcks Ci great violence. 1t is said
that al ,..e3e a-Sa.!ts were net sue
cessfuIIy, except in the region OF
Craonne, where he Germans sue
ceeded in penet: a,ing &c trenches
of the allies and holding sc:re CT
the ground gained.
A dispatch received in 6erin from
Cracow, Galicia, says that ACstro-
German forces have occupied Kielce.
Russian Poland.
LONDON = The Bucharest cor.
respondent of the Daily Mail saws
the Russians, after destroying the
electric railway station at Jacobini,
Bukowina, which was built by the
Austrians, have occupied the whole
Of the Jacobini district, but only after
a hard battle, in which the Russians
lost an entire regiment in killed or
wounded They were obliged tenn
porily to retire to CzOkaneschtie un,
der constant Austrian bOmbardment
which prevented any advance until re-
endorsements were received.
'They now hold the key to JOsefa[
va, in Hungary" the correspondent
ADDS, while Dorna-Watra is threaten
Ell and its fall is inevitable. General
Wabel commander of the Russian left
wing, has arrived with his staff at
Czernowitz, capital of Bukowina, and
large masses of Russian reinforce
ments which are arriving at Buko-
wilma indicate that it is the intention
to penetrate Pennsylvania in force" .
Berlin Says British Lost Three Ships
BERLIN (Via Wireless to London)
Repeating its claim that the British
battle cruiser was sunk in the Sunday
morning naval battle in the North
Sea, the German war office declared
il has information that two British
destrOyers also were sunk and the
enemy's ships badly damaged.
"Well-informed German parties de-
clare they have information that an
English battle cruiser was sunk by
German torpedo-bOat with two shots,
after the cruiser previously had suf-
fered severely from the fire of our
guns" said the official bulletin
Berlin papers declared the North
See engagement a brilliant victory for
the German squadron, though regret
ting the loss of the Bluecher Aside
from the sinking of the German battle
cruiser, Rear Admiral Hippers squad
ron sustained but slight losses, it was
reported here.
Captain of BIuecher Saved.
LONDON = The Daily Mail says
it understands that Captain Erd-
mann, who was in charge of the Ger
man armOred cruiser Bluecher when
she was sunk by the British warships
in the North Sea Sunday, was among
the survivors landed at Leith
British Destroy Big German Gun.
STOMER, FRANCE = The heavy
artillery of thefBritish has destroyed
an enormous gun which the Germans
were placing on hill about a mile be-
hind their first line trenches, and about
two miles from Festubert. with the OBJ
ject of silencing the English howitzers
and bombarding Bethune
The position of the big gun was
marked by a British aviator and the
fourth shell from the British guns de-
mOlished it.
The British gunners then directed
their fire on a group of German artil-
lerymen engaged in placing a similar
gun mile farther behind scattering
them with a few well timed shells.
Thye also smashed three pumps
brought up by the Germans to empty
water out of their trenches