The chronicle=news., 1915-01-14
Germans Continue
sian Forward
German Force.

! Paris, Emperor William Is directing Il
violent attack ON the French line.
The Germans, under the eyes of their
ruler. won an important victory in
the fighting yesterday near Soissons
| the point at which the battle line,
stretching down from the north to
the point nearest Paris. turns to the
eastward
| In both the Paris and Berlin off
cial statements today the victory of
the Germans on the heights of NrcS-
ny, northeast OF scissors. is recorded.
| The Berlin statement adds that the
Germans. charging thru heavy mud,
took trench after trench, clearing the
heights and capturing | ,l3O prison
crs.
In the east also furious fighting
/ has been resumed. The Russian fore
es in East Prussia have been driven
back, the Berlin war office states,
, but the Russians advancing toward
/ the Prussian frontier in the Mlwa re
gion have captured several towns.
In central Poland the Germans
have made four violent attacks with
, h. rs hours. They s,Icreeded al aTiI :
I ing back the Russians and winning
/ considerable ground. Russia has
once more undertaken an offensive
/ movement against two of the three
nations she is fighting.
! After a long period or inactivity
| here the forces in the north are at
tempting to penetrate from two di-
rections into Prussia, where Russia
several months ago sustained one of
the most severe defeats of the war.
In the Caucasus Russian forces are
again engaged i'll heavy fighting
with the Turks. who, according to =
ficial Petrograd advices. have sus-
tanned large losses in the late cucoun-
ters.
In Galicia and DuKowfna, where
Russias activities are directed
against Austria, there is now little
activity, severe weather having
checked military operations.
On the western battlcfields the
fighting in the region of Soissons has
developed into unexpectedly large
proportions. Both the Germans and
the allies apparently have thrown in
heavy reinforcemcnts and definite
defeat for either side might result in
the reshaping of the battle line over
n long section. of the frontier. Not
only in the scissors region but tlse-
where along the front Germany is be
lieved to be sending in more troops in
response to the movement of En-
gland, which is pouring in fresh
soldiers weekly by the thousands. Or
dinary passenger traffic over the
railroads in Germany has been SuS-
pended for several days and it is as
sumed that extensive movements of
TROOPS are under way.
All the Russian forces in northern
Persia apparently offered no resist
ance to the Turks advance. Small
forces of Pcrsiaus defended their
country from invasion but with no
success. OF guard of 400 Persian
horsemcn at Miandoab. the gateway
to Persia. all but four wcle killed.
London. Jan. 14.-Like the stub
bornly contested battle in the early
days of the war on which hinged the
German occupation of West Flanders,
the struggle for the knoll of ground
northeast OF SDlSSOnS KNOWN as
"Spur 1872" still remained undecided
today. according to information re-
ceived in London. The Germans. how
ever, by their counter attacks, ap-
pear to be in the better position to
the eastward OF the spur.
In view of the relatively small
amount of ground gained the losses
have been heavy on both sides, but
the Germans show no signs of giving
up their attempts to retako the hill.
In fact it is said that General Won
, kluck himself is now in command Of
the German forces.
Farther east, near Perthes, where
another sharp fight is still in pro-
gress. the situation has not changed
materially. judging from dispatches
received here.
Tabriz. Persia. a city of 100000
neople. apparently was taken without
fighting In view of the fact that the