The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-01-11
Quiet on Russian Front.

| ShiCt OIl nuSSldI rIOl'b'
London, Jan. 11.-While the Rus
sian front has been quiet during the
last twenty-four hours there has been
severe lighting in the other war thea.
tres.
| On the Montenegrin front, the Aus
trians have been generally successful.
They have advanced their positions
at several important points despite
| the handicap of snow waist deep and
are showing themselves just as adept
as the Montenegrins in mountain fight
ing, which heretofore has been re-
garded as the particular specially of
the MontenegTin soldiers.
After the Germans had taken about
700 yards of French trenches in
Champagne in an offensive launched
with large numbers of men with the
intention of obtaining important re-
suits, the French troops, according
TO Paris, stopped the attack short and
in vicious counter attacks reoccupied
successfully nearly all the terrain
! lost. In addition, on the heights Of
the Meuse, a heavy French lombard
ment did great damage to the German
trenches.
The situation in Mesopotamia,
where the Turks and British are en-
gagged along the Tigris river, is still
not clear owing to the divergent re-
ports of Constantinople and London.
While the British say that the Turks
around Kut-El-Amara are in retreat,
Turkish communication declares
that it is the British who are falling
back and that a force of 10000 Brit
ish left in Kut-El-Amara is sur
rounded
Along the Austro-Italian front the
usual bombardments are in progress.
A squadron of French aeroplanes has
dropped bombs on Sofia, the capitol of
Bulgaria.
Petrograd says the calm on the
Czernowitz front is due to the huge
losses and resulting demorali7?tlon oi
the Austro-Hungarian army. That |
there is some basis for this statement
is evident from the estimate of the |
Hungarian newspaper, Poster Lloyd |
that the losses on both sides hf the
Bessarabian battles so far exceed !
$4,000. or more than the total Brit
ish losses in the whole Dardanelles
campaign.
Another Hungarian newspaper
states on the authority of 4 staff re-
port that the fighting on this front
has been the bitterest and bloodiest |
in the history of the war, both sides
sacrificing men in manner without
parallel.
The Saloniki front is chiefly no.
table in the days dispatches as the
scene of almost continued aeroplane
skirmishes. The Germans have thus
far lost six aeroplanes in this region.
Several lengthy dispatches have
been received here giving details of
the recent operations in eastern Ga
licia, which were so meagerly de-
scrbed in the official reports. Ac-
cording to these dispatches the Rus
slams, after artillery preparation
which showed there was no longer
any shortage in their big gun ammu-
milton, started an offensive which
caused the Austro-Germans to rush
every available division to Galicia.
Czernowitz is still in the posses
sion of the Austrans and is filled
with wounded. But the Russians ap'
parently are directing their main at
tack against Sadagora, north Of the
Bukowina capital. where five import
ant roads converge. Il
In the Balkans reports persist that ]
the Germans are concentrating at
preparatory to an attack on
Saloniki, but the interest in the Mace
donian campaign has become second