The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1916-01-13
BRITISH COMMONS VOTES FOR DRAFT
) LABOR MEMBERS QUIT MINISTRY
\ 100000 BATTLE ON RUMANIAN LINE
Czars Forces Capture Cemetery at Czaroysk and Push
Advance---Sweep Along Styr---Austrians, Hard
Pressed Rushing Vast Renforcements
ALLIED VICTORIES CALL TEuToNs FROM BALKANS

Paris.-The fighting in the Russian
drive on the Bessarabian front. COW
ering an area OF 300 miles, has de-
veloped a ferocity hitherto unknown
in the war, and has resulted in hand
to-hand lighting, in which no quarter
is asked or given.
The dispatches say few prisoners
are being taken on either side, and
the infantry is rushing into en-
counters at close range for battles
to the death.
The Russian losses are said by
Vienna TO have been at least $4,000
men in the last few days in the Bess-
arabian region and the Stripa sector.
Dispatches from other sources place
the losses of Austro-Germans in
killed as equal to those OF the Rus
SLAMS.
The Russians are pressing their at
tacks from the Baltic to the Rumanian
border. Petrograd has not disclosed
officially whether the drive is the
great offensive that has been predict
( ed, and which, 1t was said, once be-
gun was not to be ended until Rus
sia had shot its bolt and the whole
force OF 100000 men had done it's
utmost.
In some quarters the new move
ment is said to be a diversion of un-
paralleled magnitude and fierceness
designed to weaken the pressure OF
the Central Powers in the Balkans and
incidentally to tighten the burden of
the Italians on the Austro-Italian
front.
Dispatches from Klev say the noise
of cannon can be heard thirtysix
miles and that windows in all the viii
lages in the region have been broken
by the conclusions.
The battle Is raging with particular
fury on the Tarnopol-Trembowla
front, where more than 100000 men,
with $500 cannon. are necessarily en-
gagged Long Austro-German Red
Cross trains are leaving the front
daily for more remote and thinly pop
uiated towns where hospitals have
been organized.
The Russians have had to surmount
enormous difficulties. Entanglements
of barbed wire are often laid twenty
four deep and charged with powerful
electric currents supplied from sta
tions built for the sole purpose of fur
nishing the current.
BESSARABIAN BORDER FIGHT.
London. - The Russians repeated
their attacks in the great battle along
the borders of Bessarabia In their ef-
forts to break the lines of the armies
OF the Central Powers.
Dispatches from Berlin say the fight
ing on the Bukowina front since
Christmas Day. has been unexampled
in it's fury and in the extent OF the
losses.
The whole energy Of the Russians
is being directed to making a gap be-
tween the German armies in the cen
ire and the southern Austrian forces,
and the Austrians are attacking with
determination IN the region OF Kolki TO
prevent the success OF the Muscovite
drive
Reports from Austrian sources ad-
nit the withdrawal of Austrian troops
from part OF Czernowitz. and that the
Russians are holding the heights above
the city.
The Cars forces have concentrated
more than 200 guns and three divi-
sions OF infantry on a front OF three
quarters OF a mile.
The most important event on the
western line in France was the repulse
BY the French OF German attack In
the region OF Tahure.
On the AustroItalian line a return
OF clear weather has brought about
q renewal OF the bombardments along
the Isonzo front.
In Central Africa a British naval
expedition on Lake Tanganyika has
brought about the surrender OF the
German armed steamship Kingani, all
the officers OF which were killed.