Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1916-01-15
ENGLISH REPORT CASUALTIES
SMALL IN MAKING GETAWAY
FROM THE PENINSULA.
TEUTON OFFENSIVE IafRANCE
Hard Fighting Goes on In Galicia'
Where Great Russian offensive is
On-Bie British 5attIeship De-
stroyed by Mine.
Latest From All War Fronts.

! fifty thousand dead or wounded, and
| new forces are known TO be moving
! with the purpose of reinforcing the
| attacking column and the resumption
| of the bitter assaults OF the last few
| days is hourly expected. Many CIR
| cassian groups are reported as being
| sent to the front. Captured Russian
/ officers declare that the Russian en-
peror visited Trembowla, Galicia, on
| the eve of the offensive with the OBJ
| ject of giving heart to his troops and
| delivered an order to break the Aus
| trian line at all cost. The officers
were assured that there were SUI
| ficient troops TO accomplish this. The
| Russians retain the important strate-
! gic heights in the neiehbOrhOod OF
| Sadagora, north of Czernowitz, Buko-
! wilma. Although the recent snowfall
binders operations, they are steadily
! and Systematically advancing and for
| tifying their positions until the .ex-
! tending front comprises thirty-three
miles .of the east bank Of the Stripa
river. This front is now deemed Sc
cure against recapture.
The complete evacuation of the Gal
| iipoli peninsula by the British and
French forces, the withdrawal of the
! French troops from the summit of
! Hirzstein, south of Hartmanns Weller
kopf in the Vosges mountains, and the
/ sinking of the British battleship King
Edward VII after it had come in con-
tact with a mine are the outstanding
/ features in the war news.
A British soldier wounded was the
| only casualty suffered in leaving the
Gallipoli peninsula, and the British
and French were able to remove all
| their guns except seventeen old ones,
which were destroyed.
There also was no loss of life in the
/ sinking of the King Edward VII and
only two men aboard the predread-
nought were wounded
In the capture of Hirzstein, Berlin
| says 20 French officers. 1883 chas-
| seurs and Is guns were taken. Paris,
! in admitting the evacuation, says it
was due to the capture of the Ger
mans of a hill north OF Hirzstein.
On the remainder of the western
/ front little activity has been shown
/ by either side except IT. the usual bonn
bardments and mining operations.
/ Comparative calm prevails in the Aus
| tro-Italian theater.
Considerable fighting is still going
! on at CzartOrysk, on the Russian front,
where the TeutOns have twice been
repulsed with considerable losses in
attempting to recapture that town
from the Russians.
Petrograd reports that the Austro-
Hungarians have been driven from the
eastern bank of the MiddleStrip
| river in East Galicia.
Nothing new has come through with
regard to the operations of the Aus
TRANS against the Montenegrins. ex'
! cept that an Austrian fleet has VIC
/ lently bombarded the Montenegro
I
Adriatic coast
An attack Y the Teutonic allies
against the entente allies in Greece
has not yet materialized, but aero
planes of the central powers have
again bombarded the environs of Sa-
loniki.
! The Russians claim further sue.
cesses against the Turks in the eau
casus region. Turkey as a reprisal
for the arrest of consuls of the cen
, trail powers and their allies at Sa-
loniki has taken into custody ten
French and British officials who hal
remained in their respective embas-
sizes in Constantinople. according to a
Berlin report. An Amsterdam dis
patch says the Turks also have in
| termed 1000 subjects of the entente
| powers in retaliation for the treat
ment of Turkish subjects at SalOniki.
| ,England's internal affairs are quiet,
pending the reassembling of parlia-
| ment. There will be debate on the
compulsion bill this week, with David
Lloyd-George, minister of munitions,
and Arthur Henderson, labor men,
Der, who has just resigned from the
cabinet, as the probable star speak
ers. Sir Henry Dalziel, who has been
one of the most consistent critics of
the government, also will give his rea-
sons why he supports the government
on this matter.
The labor party will meet early in
the week to consider its position. I'm
less heavy opposition to the bill de-
velops a strength of which there is no
indication now. there seems small like
iihood that the government will feel
need to appeal to the country.
|
Amid scene of wild enthusiasm the
house of commons in London Thurs