The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-01-21
KAISER PREPARES
SMASHING ATTACK
lon WESTERN FRONT
Thousands of Troops Are Being
Transferred From Poland to
France-DefenSive Cam
paign In the East.
HEAVY FIGHTING EXPECTED
Russians Exerting Steady Pres
sure, But Germans Are Wen
Entrenched For Clash
Turks Beaten.
HEAVY FIGHTING EXPECTED

London. Jan. 19.-London Is recall
" that this is the 44th anniversary of
the proclamation Of Wilhelm i, as Ger
man emperor, and in the British capt.
tai it is expected that the day may
bring news OF widespread German eff
fort to follow up with a still more i'm
portant movement the success achieved
last week in the neigburhood Of
Scissors.
In London, IL is believed the Ger
mans have adopted what Is virtMally
a defensive role to the west Of War
saw-some British observers arguing
that this has been forced upon them by
superior Russian numbers-and that
thepe defensive tactics synchroni9e
with the movement of many thousands
Of Teutonic troops from Poland to the
French and Belgian battle fields.
The fighting at Scissors, some Brit
lsh commentators declare TO be the
precursor of the entry of these new
troops upon a vigorous offensive
perhaps an attempt to cross the River
Aisne.
At scissors the French failed to bold
their positions on the northern bank
OF the river, and for the Germans TO
attempt TO gain the southern bank Is
regard as n development to be ex-
pected.
Shift Battle Lines.
The German attack on the western
front has shifted northward from Sots-
sons, and yesterday there was a Sc
we're encounter in the region of Albert.
Today's official Berlin statement says
that the Germans, attacking with pay
onets, drove the allies from positions
northeast OF Albert. In the SCISSORS
region there is little activity. Se%-
eral French trenches in the Argonne
are said to have been captured.
The official statement from Paris
disputes the German claim Of victories
In the Argonne, saying that the a.
tacks were repulsed. Several mfHor
victories for the allies are reported,
mostly in artillery engagements.
AS to future engagements In THIS
region, 1t appears to be a fact that the
French artillery on the hills on the
south OF the Aisne commands all the
approaches to the river, and that II wiil
have to be reckoned with.
In the eastern arena of the war the
steady pressure which the arrival of
L 600. 900 Of last year levies has enabled
the Russians to exert upon the Ger
mans according to news dispatches
reaching London, has been slowly push
ing back the German line to the west
of Warsaw. News dispatches today
report the Russian occupation of Ploek.
This report has been confirmed odi-
cially. but the Russians on Saturday
crossed the Skrwa river few miles be-
low that point and may have been ab1e
to occupy the city. Russian forces al
ready had reached Sierpec and Gombin.
lying respectively directly north ana
south OF this PROVING ial capital.
The Russian defeat of the Turks. II
the claims of PetTograd are fully borne
out, was so devisive that II may mark
the close of the Ottoman attempt To
invade Russia In the Caucasian region.
The Russian victory probably will free
enough OF the Caucasian army to OPP
pose effectively the Turkish forces
which are approaching the frontier fur
| Their eastward through Persia.