The Ocala evening star., 1915-02-01
SIX MONTHS OF STRIFE.
Seems to Have Brought Warning Ma.
tiOns Only to Real Beginning
of the Struggle


London, JAN. 3O.-The end of the
sixth month of Europe's great war
finds the belligerent armies complet-
ing preparations for or actually en-
gagged in operations of an extent hard
ly anticipated when the declarations
of hostilities were made.
In Flanders, France and Central
Poland deadlock still exists, but
largely because of Russia's tremend-
Gus resources and Turkeys action the
sphere of operations has been widely
extended. Russia, alone, is engaged
in fighting hostile armies from Tilsit,
far in the north of East Prussia, to
Tabriz, in Persia, a distance of over
1,500 miles. Only that portion of her
territory bordering Roumania is free
from menace, but her reports declare
all of her immense armies are sue
cessful.
The Russian outfanking movement
in Northern East Prussia is said to
be gaining momentum. The armies
on either side of Tilsit have cut the
German railroad between that city
and Memel, on the Baltic.
Army Advancing on Thorn
On the southern front in East Prus-
sia another army is advancing toward
the German fortress of Thorn, while
still another is holding a line of en-
trenchments which protects Warsaw
and which Gen. Won Hindenburg has
been trying to batter through for
three months. Other armies are again
preparing to meet big Austro-Ger-
man force attempting to regain Gal
icia and Bukowina
To the eastward, where Muscovite
troops are battling against the Turks,
another defeat apparently has been in
/ f1icted on the Sultan's forces. The
Russian official report says the Turks
are retreating to Tabriz, while unof-
fetal dispatches declare the Russians
have reoccupied that city.
What is regarded as the most i'm
-ortant campaign, however, is that
developing in the fCarpathians, which
vas brought about by the Austro-
German offensive to drive the Rus
-ians from Galicia and Bukowina. The
Austro- German allies are said to have
concentrated twenty-eight army corps
for this venture. So far as can be
gathered from contradictory official
reports, the Russians have won pre-
liminary skirmishes in the western
passes from Dukla to Wyszkow while
to the east they have been forced to
retire before superior forces. These
battles, which are being fought in the
snow, are just commencing, however
and many days must pass before q
definite decision is reached.
Battles in the West
Battles in the west still consist Of
local engagements, although the Ger
mans, apparently preparing for al
extensive offensive before the allie:
| get their full strength into the field
occasionally deliver rather more
strenuous attacks. These are scatter
! ed all along the front from the sea tx
the Swiss frontier.
. Guinchy, which the British now hole
after driving back the Germans whc
captured it on Monday, was attacked
. again yesterday, and according to /;
British report the Germans were re
pulsed, leaving 200 dead in front O
. the trenches, they sought to capture.
The Argonne has been the scene o
another attack and in this case tn
German forces claim to have takel
over 700 prisoners and counted be
tween 400 and 500 dead.
5 In giving review of these "loca
affairs between Jan. 16 and 27
! French eyewitness declares all but on
of them are said to have resulted i
> favor of the allies.
There has been more outpost fight
ing in the vicinity of the Suez cana
but latest rer orts say the Turks ar
withdrawing their advance posts
There still is some doubt whether the
have definitely committed themselve
d to the march they must make acros
d the desert to invade Egypt.
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