Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-02-13
CROWNED HEADS
WITH Their ARMIES
KAISER AND GAR ARE AT FRONT
WHERE BATTLE is RAGING
WITH ALL FURY.
ARTILLERY DUELS IN FRANCE
The English Defeat the Turks on Suez
Canal, While All Is Quiet in
Egypt-Turks Satlue
italian Flag.
Latest War News From the Front.

With the German and Russian EN-
/ perors as eyewitncsses, the armies OF
| Russia and Germany are stiU contend
ing for positions which protect the
Polish capital Of Warsaw from the in
vaders
The Russian emperor has been at
| the Russian headquarters for several
( days, and the German report an
nounccs that the German emperor has
/ joined his generals and actually has
visited some Of the troops in their
| trenches.
Nothing has been disclosed as 10 the
/ progress OF the battle, which. when
| the last reports were received. was
| raging with undated fury.
The Russians. according TO Samr-
days official statement. had strength
ened their positions on the western
/ bank of the Rzura river. which they
| had crossed near its mouth and cap
/ tured another German vantage point.
They also captured long line Of Ger
man trenches near Borumow. which
| has been the center Of most desperate
/ fighting
In East Prussia another big battle
| is developing, the Germans having
sent reiuforcemeuts apparently from
/ their Bzura front to that REGION. In
/ the Carpathians, while their right is
/ advancing, the Russians are only able
to report that their left has checked
/ the Austro-German offensive
The fighting in the west is merely
a repetition of that of the precel.ug
| days. There have been lively artillery
I duels and a few infantry attacks in
which both sides claim to have gained
| some ground
No further fighting in Egypt is re
| ported. The Turkish account of that
/ which has already occurred there re
/ fers to it as an encounter of vanguards
! and adds that the battles are still in
/ progress. This probably is a delayed
| announcement.
/ The Italian report of the return of
| Baron Burian, the Hungarian
/ foreign minister, from his visit to the
| German emperor, says that the Aus
| trian cabinet found the results salts
| factory, but were not inclined to give
Trentino to Italy and part of Transyl-
vania to Roumania as the price of con-
| tinued neutrality on the part of those
| countries.
Turkey has at last given Italy sat
! isfaction for the Hodeida incident
| The British consul has been released
1 nd oil Int
The Turks at last have made def
mite attack on the Suez canal, but
after a sharp fight they were driven
off with heavy losses.
After a fruitless attempt made on
Tuesday night to bridge the canal near
Toussoum they returned to the at
tack early Wednesday morning with
| force estimated at 1900 strong and
six batteries of artillery and essayed
to get across the waterways on RATS.
| The British force. however WAS wait
| ing, and the invaders were forced
back, leaving about three hundred
! prisoners in the hands of the defend
ers. A considerable number of the
| Turks were killed and wounded. The
British lost fifteen killed and fifty
| eight wounded.
The attack also was renewed by the
Turks at Elkantara, but this met with
no greater success than the other at
tempt, the Turkish losses in killed.
wounded and prisoners numbering up
ward of a hundred.
The New Zealand contingent, and
! presumably the Australians, took part
| in the battles, the New Zealanders
having two casualties. Compared with
the battles in Poland and the Car
| pathians, this is a mere flash, but as
British territorials, Australians and
| New Zealanders are receiving their
baptism of fire in Egypt, and as there
is much interest in the attempts of
| the Turks to move big army across
the desert, the operations in that part
of the world are attracting a great
| deal of attention in England.
The efforts of German Field Mar
shall Won Hindenburg to stop the ad-
vance of the Russians in East Prus-
STA and the Carpathians by compelling
them to reinforce their center west of
Warsaw has eliminated in a desperate
attack Regiment after regiment, sup
! ported by great masses of artillery.
has been flung against the Russian
lines, and both sides claim to have
inflicted heavy losses on their oppo-
nents, and each reports progress.
In the west the artillery continues
| TO play the major part. Each side
makes occasional attacks, which, &C
cording to official reports, are invaria-
bly, repulsed.
The surrender of Lieutenant Colonel
Kemp and other rebels who have been
receiving arms and support from the
| Germans in Southwest Africa, and
with whom they have recently quarrel
| ed, and the expected surrender of
Lieutenant Colonel Maritz, who has
been able to remain in the field by the
same means, probably will bring to an
| end the South African rebellion.
An Italian expeditionary corps, COM
posed of 10000 men, destined to &C.
| cupy the Albanian seaport of Durazzo
| and its vicinity, is being concentrated