Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1915-02-18
FORTY AIRMEN
MAKE RAID ON
GERMAN BASES
Success Is Reported for British
and French Aerial
Attacks.
RUSSIANS OUT OF PRUSSIA.
French Capture Nearly Two
Miles Of Trenches in
Champagne.
RUSSIANS OUT OF PRUSSIA.

London, Feb. 1.-THE air wing of |
the British navy yesterday made
another massed attack on the Ger
man positions along the Belgian
coast in an effort to destroy or dam
age the submarine base at Zeebrugge,
the guns at Ostend and Middelkerke
'8nd the aerodome at Ghistelles.
According to the official report,
good results were attained. Forty
machines were utilized.
While the British airmen were
dropping their bombs on the gun po-
sitions and the supply trains, barges
and trawlers used in mine-laying
and mine-sweeping operations, eight
French airmen attacked the CHS
telles aerodome, preventing the Ger
man airmen from making an attempt
to cut off the British machines.
Great Britain received yesterday,
through Ambassador Page Ger
many's offer to withdraw her threat
of a submarine blockade against
Great Britain if the British navy
will permit the free movement of
foodstuffs to the civil population of
Germany.
1t is not believed here the offer
will be accepted.
Holland and Italy, like the United
States, have protested to Germany
against her sea war zone threat, and
have asked Great Britain not to make
free use of neutral flags. Similar
Representations are expected 70 be
made to the two countries today in
a joint note by Norway. Sweden and
denmark.
For the time being, questions of
diplomacy are arousing more inter
est than the actual fighting. although
military movements of the first i'm
portance are taking place, especially
in the east. The German offensive,
strongly supported by fresh troops.
is being pushed with great vigor
both along the East Prussia front
and in Poland north of the lower
Vistula. The Russians have evacu-
ated East Prussia except for small
area near Lyck, and also are appar-
emily falling back in North Poland,
for the Germans announce the occu'
patton of Plock and Blelsk, which
the Russians recaptured from them
a short time ago.
While the Germans claim to have
inflicted heavy losses on the retiring
Russian armies, military men here
here and the newspaper corresp on
dents in Petrograd continue to refer
to the Muscovite movement as a
strategical retirement to the forti-
fled line along the Niemen river.
Heavy fighting continues in the
Carpathians and Bukowina. In Blu.
kowika the Russians also are falling
! back, but they continue to hold the
Carpathian passes father west and
are offering stubborn resistance
|, to the Austro-G German offensive in
J that region. Here the armies are
fighting in deep snow. and both sides
are suffering severely.
The large number of troops the
Germans are using in the east, mill
tary observers here believe will pre-
vent for some time any attempt by
the Germans to break the western
deadlock.
The first of the promised bi-week-
ly reports of the doings of the Brit
ish army in France also was issued.
1t claims that progress has been
made in the region of Labasse, where
the Germans are said to have suffer
| ed severe losses and that the British
artillery has shown marked super.
iority over that of the Germans.
There was no further news of the
new German offensive in Alsace or
the French offensive in the vicinity
of st. Mihiel.
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