Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-01-20
Austria Declares That TeutOns'
Armies Are Holding Lines on
SO-Milc Front and That Rus
slams Loss Is 10000 Men.
NEW OFFENSIVE PREPARED
Greece Center of Great Interest
Agair-Allies Demand That
Passports BE Given to All Rep
resentativeS of Central Pow
ers-MOre Entente Troops.

London, Jan. lS.-Thc offensive which
the Russians launched against the Austro.
llungarians in East Galcia and along the
Bessarabian frontier Christmas eve. de
scribed as the New Years Battle" cana
TO an end January 10, according 10 the
Austro-H Hungarian war office, with the
Tcutons holding all their lines on the So
mile front, having inflicted losses on the
Russians estimated at 1000 men killed
ur wounded and 5000 captured.
That this ends only one phase of the Of
fensive however, Is indicated by the Aus
trian official statement that Russian rein
forcemcn;s are being thrown into East
Galicia The Austrians all along have
considered that the big Russian offensive
was undertaken with important military
and political objects in view. TO it has
been attributed the dual purpose of less
cning the strain on the entente allies in
the Balkans and possibly of causing Rou-
mania to enter the war on the side Of the
entente allies
GERMANS ENACUATE LtTSK.
Unofficial advces from Kiev are to
the effect that the Germans are evac-
luatnG Lutsk. one of the triangle Of
fortreses in Volhynia around which
there was sanGuinary fighting in the
Teutonc drive Of the Russians last fall
still farther north, to the southeast
of Riga and south of Widsy. the Rus
slams during a snowstorm made sur
prise attacks against German posts and
destroyed them.
GREECE IN LTMELIciHT AGAIN.
From political point of view Greece
again has become a center of great
interest In addition to the report
that the entente allies have ordered
Greece to hand passports to the rep
|resentatives of the central powers and
/ their allies in the kingdom, comes an
assertion that British and French
troops have been landed at Corinth. IS
miles west Of Athens. Should the lat
ter report prove true the entente al
lies would have line of bases almost
surrounding Greece-at Saloniki on the
east. at Corinth on the south. and at
Corfu on the west
With the ending of the Montenegrin
campaign by the capitulation of the Mon
tenesrins to the Austro-Hu ngarians hos
tiltics for the moment have ceased III
the Balkans. although despatch from
Athens reports the dropping of bombs by
y French aeropanes on a Bulgarian posi-
ton northeast of Salonki. hundreds of
BulGarians are declared to have been
killed in this attack and very large
number wounded.
ARTILLERY DUEl.S IN WEST,
The British and French on the western
line continue their artillery duels with the
Germans Paris reports the SCATTERING
..e 4. in h.. ftN
lin-Sous-Toutvent and the damaging Of
a German battery in the Nosses while the
British record the destruction of a large
portion of parapets of German trenches
by the explosion of a mine near Fricourt.
The Germans are declared to have suf-
fered considerably from the effects of the
explosion from shells of the British guns
which followed the detonation of the mine,
one French and two British aeroplanes
have been brought down by the Germans
in the western theatre.
The usual artillery engagements con-
.inuc along the Austro-Italia front.
SNOWSTORMS IN CAUCASUS.
Violent snowstorrns in the Caucasus
have not ended the Russian offensive
against the Turks who are declared by
Constantnoplc to be battling hard against
the superior forces of the invaders
petrograd reports the capture of a
Turkish officers and over 20 men and
quantities of rifles, war materials, tents
and provisions I'm this region.
Nothing additional has come through
concerning the situation in Mesopotam
where last accounts had the British forg-
ing { head against the Turks in an en-
deavCr to bring aid to the British force
beleagured in kut-elAmara.