The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-01-02
French Offensive
Comes to a Halt
Germans Are Now
Making Assaults
Reported Sultan May Quit Constantnope Fearing Fall Of
City-Kaiser Said to BE Bothered With Throat and
May Have to Undergo Operation.

The Russian office that another defeat
has been inflicted upon the Austrian forces in Gaca whose
advance from the Carpatans recently checked with
serious consequences to them 1t asserted that fortified
Austrian positions Gorce destroyed and that
1900 prisoners captured The Russian statement
however, that the victory only after hard battle
that the fighting still continues indicating that the Aus
trians are still capable of offering determined resistance
In Poland the German attack has apparently shifted to
the southwark The Russian Statement mentions fighting of
particular intensity Rawa which thirty miles south of
Sochaczew the center of German activity German attacks
there well east Prussia, and also in the region of
Mawa Poland the east Prussan border said
have been repulsed
Austrian warships have bombarded Belgrade, the Ser
Wan capital from which the Ausrans driven shortly
after they had occupied it. Some damage property
caused by the bombardmen but far known lives
According to report current in Paris the lost For
midable sunk off Portsmouth, Engands chief naval
base The destruction of the Formidable is believed be
the work of German submarine.
London Yaa latest news available from the vest
ern battlefe hnY bat little progress is being made by
the allied force S her indicates sporadic renewal of
y the Ger9nap resultant slight gains IN the Ar
gonne and Feaa apaets.
These dtr IS aardly be cassed as general Ger
oensc Dt8veHeut the west, such is still being
conducted il Po&l h the strength which the Germans
showing make plain that they have not weak
ened apprcaby their western by transfers of troops
the has the pressure of the allies broken their
Meuse. :
General Jore apparently is still avoiding general attack
and for their tactics of feeling out the German line
by attacks here and there, the allies playing waiting
game, pending the time when, with the assistance of REIN
fOrcements they deliver concentrated blow at
strategic point.
The Germans are still attempting to press forward in
Poland but to the south the Russians have driven the Aus
trians further back than sixty miles in all 1t again
reported that the Russians pouring the Capath
ians into Hungary causing the inhabitants to flee.
Driven out of Servia, the Austrians nevertheless
again attacking Belgrade According dispatches from that
city four monitors have bombarded it.
1t still exceedingly difficult to obtain any clear idea
the sultan and his court preparing to leave Constan
tnople, fearing the early fall of that city The attack
Egypt seems to have been abandoned indefinitely.
Various reports concerning the condition of Emperor
Williams throat again in circulation. According to
version the Emperor return Berlin under
go operation
With full knowledge that vast numbers of
being trained i'll England Germany, it recognized here
must be preparing to meet their entry into the 1t is
agreed that much depends upon the quality of the for
nations both sides The English view is that Britain
troops will be the of the country while Germany
having sent in her finest forces the outset depend
for reinforcements upon those less fit. physically.
There again reports of the movement of German
troops from west to Advices from Amsterdam
that 100000 Germans passed through Cologne the way
east 1t is suggested that they being sent General
Hndenburg preparatory another great effort to bat
ter through the German lines to Warsaw. ....