Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-07
Battle for the Roads to Ger
nay and Muelhausen
Is Violent.
ADVANTAGE SWINGS
LIKE A PENDULUM
French Keeping Nibbling at
German Lines in the
Woevre District.

+ ONDON, Jan .6.-10:40 p. m.)-
II Apart from the Russian victory
over the Turks in -Caucasia,
which is described in a dispatch to
the Russian embassy from Petrograd
as complete, interest in the war now
lies chiefly in the stubborn fight which
the French and Germans are carry
ing on for the roads to Cernay and
Muelhausen In upper Alsace.
The battle in that region which has
been raging for a week, Is described
in a Berlin dispatch as the most Vio-
lent of the war. The Germans sue
ceeded in regaining one of the
trenches which they had lost but on
the whole, the French reports appear
to show that the forces Of France
maintain their advantage, for every
inch OF which they had to fight, in
many cases with the bayonet
Along the rest of the western front
the tide of battle continues to ebb
and dow
Slight French Gains.
On either side of Rheims, particu-
larly to tho east OF that harrassed
city, according TO reports, the French
daily push their lines a few yards
forward, while in the Argonne, where
more hard fighting Is going on, first
the Germans and then the French re-
port the capture Of the other en-
trenchments.
Another region where the French
seemingly keep nibbling away at the
German lines is in the Woevre, where
the gain reported by them last night
and again today, when consolidated,
oil tfNNx rH
rendering tho German long occupa-
ton OF st. Mihlel on the Meuse less
comfortable.
The Russians, with all their other
fronts to cover, have found another
army with which to take the often
sive against the German position at
MiaWa, on the east Prussian frontier,
and tonight report the capture OF
village on the road to that town.
The Germans still are hammering
at the Russian line drawn directly
across the roads to Warsaw from the
west. but it Is reported with less force
however, where they have reinforced
the Austrians. they have held up the
Russian advance near Gorlice.
Bad Weather Intcrfercs.
In southern Poland wet weather
u - lnleINtneu anu put SOP u llt
lighting Neither side Is able to move
there. owing to the high water and
the mud.
The Russians continue to drive the
Austrlans through the snow w-covered
passes of the Carpathians and out of
Bukowina. and simultaneously are
dealing In detail with the remnants of
the Turkish armies in trans Caucasia.
which are reported either TO have
been routed or surrounded.
Fight I'm Snow.
The Turkish dash into this distant
province OF Russia is described by
military men here az having been an
unwise maneuver. Military opera
tions in that part of the world would
be difficult In this season at any time,
they say, but this year. with par
cicularly severe winter raging, there
was little chance OF the poorly
equipped Turkish troops succeeding in
their efforts.
Altogether the Russians engaged
the Turks in 10 pitched battles. in
many cases while knee deep In snow.
and ct an altitude Of from six thou
sand to ten thousand feet.
In the realm Of international poll
ties the next move by Roumania is
awaited with interest, while the ar
rest Of Cardinal Mercier. primate Of
Belgium, is attracting world wide at
tention.