Middletown transcript., 1915-01-16
FIERCE BATTLES RAGE IN ALSACE
GERMANS Renew WARSAW DRIVES
TRANSYLVANIA IS NOW INVADED
Grand Duke Nicholas Prepares Huge Russian Forces to Re-
sst Avalanche From East Prussia
KITCHENER SAYS WAR WILL BEGIN in MAY

Alsace. has become one of ceaseless
handltoIhand fighting, with appalling
losses on both sides. The Germans,
when they were driven from this vii
lage, Occupied q series Of trenches only
fifty lines from the French outposts.
From these trenches and from their
reserve positions they have sent for
ward their soldiers in q never ending
stream to attack the French, who have
had no opportunity to erect forti1ca-
tons ON the eastern end OF the village.
Germany is reported to have begun
q new drive at Warsaw from the
North with the aid OF 200,O 600 first line
troops recently brought from Belgium.
Fighting continues on the Bzura-Rav'
ka front and in the south the Russians
nave reached Transylvania through
the Borgo Pass in the Carpathians.
Roumania is rapidly preparing TO
ioin the Allies. The war office is has
tening the organization Of hospitals
and field ambulances, and the enroll
ment Of surgeons, nurses and Sisters
Of Charity. Surgical instruments, hos
pital linen and bedding are being re-
QUESTIONED throughout the country.
German attacks continue along the
center and eastern sections Of the bat
tie front in France, Belgium and Al
Sace. the latest assaults being made
in the Champagne region, at Scissors,
IN the Argonne and near Thanh. Ac-
eording to Paris, all these attacks
have been repulsed, and the French
have gained ground near Soissons
and between Rheims and the Ar
gonne; but Berlin declares the Ger
mans have made progress in the Ar
gonne, and tells Of repelling French
rs all along the line, including
onslaught at Nieuport. From
Sea to the Oise artillery is
sprincipal role.
Inducements are being
Afghting line in Poland
I'D Field Marshal Won
khe Grand Duke
IeaOlng a battle along
80 miles west from War
may equal in intensity any
vet waged for the possession
Polish capital. At the same
strong German force under
Won Francois is moving south
lava to strike the Russians
nix north of Warsaw. In Tran
the Russians are advancing,
SO the case in northern Hun
There is no change in East
krad, IN a semi-official notice,
ares the Turkish cruisers Breslau
Hamidiek were badly damaged in
battle in the Black Sea with Russian
varships.
A dispatch from Copenhagen says
that Of the German high sea feet only
the old boats Barbarossa, Wuerttem
berg, Koenigin Luise, Kronprinz
Kaiser wilhelm, some instruction
ships and six, submersibles are now al
Kiel. The first line deet with the
dreadnaughts are at Wilhelmshaver
and CuxhaYen.
- London.-Material gains on the ex
treme wings, in Flanders and in AL
SAGE, bitter artillery fighting at many
points and infantry actions Of the se
verest kind near scissors and in th'
Argonne are the principal features o
the operations at the front as descrih
ed in the official communiques of tht
French war office.
The German General Staff announC
es the repulse Of French attacks nea
Rheims, in the Argonne, in the Vosge
and also in upper Alsace. The cam
paign against the Russians is said t.
he proceeding successfully.
A dispatch from Pontebba, on tn
Austro-Italian frontier, says a Gel
man force Of 10000 men has bee
rushed across Austria to Sarajevo, tn
capital of Bosnia, where 1t is destine
TO reinforce the Austrians and al
them in new attack on the Serviani
The Germans boast that with their al
the Servians will be easily crushe
and the Austrian defeat avenged.
The Russian War Office in detail
ed report OF the victory over the Turk
in the Caucasus says that the Mint
Turkish Army Corps was almost con
pletely destroyed, that the pursuit {
the Tenth Corps continues and ths
prisoners and extensive war munition
have been captured. The Turkish a
my is said to have been completely di
persed.
Austria is apparently either bein
drawn or forced into the dangerou
situation created by the rebellion
Albania and Italy's firm stand for til
protection of her interests and obhg
tions in that country.