The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-01-04

Austrian victory south of Gerlice are
confirmed.
PARIS, Jan. 4.-Mi1itary operations
in northern France and Belgium are
almost at a standstill owing to wide
spread flood. Even the artillery is out
|of commission because of lack of am
munition. The trenches are brimful
of water in many places. The streams
are out of their banks. The troops are
forced to quit numerous positions to
escape drowning Stalled transport
wagons blocked the roads everywhere
A high, cold wind swept the flooded
countryside. Among the soldiers,
sickness is increasing alarmingly.
There are hundreds of cases Of pneu-
monia. Only along the French right
wing was there fighting in progress on
a scale of any Importance.
AviatOrs Active
AMSTERDAM, Jan. 4-French avi-
ators bombarded the German aviation
station at Etterbeek near Brussels,
and destroyed the derigible shed which
is in course of construction, and kill
ed several Germans.
For Stronger Army
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.-Testifying
before the house committee On mil
itary affairs, Representative, Gardner
declared the United States army suf-
ficient only to garrison Paris or fill
a trench sixty-five miles long. He con-
tended the militia in various states
to be unprepared for emergencies
Gardner quoted figures given in the re-
that twenty-three thousand
of one hundred and twenty thousand
didn't attend the annual inspection.
and that thirty-one thousand absented
from annual encampments.
Offers Strong Resistance
Parsley Mail to New York;
When the Germans entered Conde sur
Escaut, say the Paris papers, they
tried to pull down a statue erected
there to the memory of the popular
French General Poilloue de Saint
Marie. Fifty men with ropes Lusged at
the monument but were unable to
bulge it. Losing their tempers. they
then fired hundreds of shots at the
figures, but the bullets only fattened
themselves against the solid bronze
with little effect.
The municipality of Conde has now
decided to leave the marks of the Ger
nan bullets undisturbed as stand
ng testimony to German inability to
)reak French resistance"
YOungster an OFFICER
NISH.-(By Mail to New York;
Servia boasts the youngest non-com-
nissioned officer in the ranks of Eu-
,pes warning armies. This is Dragol-
ub Jelititich, -year-old school
10Y, who has just been promoted cor
,oral. The lad took the field to avenge
lis father who was killed at the bat
lie of Kumanevo. Owing to his youth
lie was unable to join the regular army
nut he took service with a group of
omitadjis, and from the first display
d extraordinary bravery He has been
through seven of the hottest fights of
he war, and Is just recovering from
erious wound received at Sontcha.
Refugees Victimized
COPENHAGEN Mail to New
'ork. THE Danish police are en-
eavoring to track down particularly
lhuman genius, who profiting by the
postal service has been ex-
acting from German and Russian
sfugees money sent by their friends
nd relatives. The swindler, who has
q accomplice, managed to learn the
lethods of assisting the refugees, and
Y forging the name of a Russian Of
cial who was sent to Copenhagen to
,ok after them, he has inflicted fnan-
al suffering and L. sery on scores of
retched victims of the war. The
aud was only discovered when, the
ussian officials began to receive let
rs from different persons informing
m that money had already been sent.