The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-01-28
FIGHTING ON
ALL FRONTS is.
IN
GREAT Scope
Latest Report From Athens Is
That Germany Seeks Separate
Peace With Serbia
RUSSIANS ARE MAKING
SUBSTANTIAL ADVANCES
- ..Eg. 80. IS EHFI 81
Famous Old Cathedral Of Men
port Wrecked BY Germans
and Dunkirk ATTACKED I
RUSSIANS ARE MAKING T..
SUBSTANTIAL ADVANCES
tA'aOtia.ed Pres, by rsdsra wireless,

hssotiated Press by Fedora, wireless.
LONDON, January g6-The winter
campaigns Ia all theaters OF tbs greet
war are assuming more and more nc.
tVlty, according to reports reaching
this city from various fronts. r .dir
The talk that Austria has bern seek.
ing a separate Feace with Mont N, z 70,
which has died down Of late, Is no
taking a new form. According to the
last OF these reports, il is Germany who
wants Serbia TO sig- a separate treaty
OF peace with the Teutonic Powers.
!. There is little in the terms, "a
quoted by dispatches from Athens,
that appear attractive to the little ma.
tion. II is said that Berlin has on ,red
to permit a ''greater Serbia ? that
will take in parts Of Bosnia and Herz,
,goyina, and will reestablish the Serbian
government under the rule Of Prinz
Eitel Friedrich, as king Of the Serbs.
just what answer, il any, the Serbs
have made to this proposal cannot be
stated here, for even the reports and
rumOrs are silent regarding this fea.
ture of this last effort on the part OF
the Teutons to split the ranks Of their
foes. g. lt 800
Russians Are Advancing .
In the eastern theater of war, where
Russia is battling against Austrian and
German columns, the fighting has been
growing severe once more. The Russians
are reported to have gone forward ii
their advance, and are now said to be
within three miles of Pinsk, which il
alreay under bombardment by the
heavy guns of the ears armies. In
the Reighborhood Of Erzerun the Slavs
are said to have beaten the Turks
again, and to have captured four thons.
ana men AMI fifty Turkish officers. u
In the Near East, where the Bnlgars,
Germans and Austrians are pitted
against the Allies France, Britain and
Serbia-the fighting has been slack, sase
for the customary aerial attacks. Yes.
terday Is reports from that front told
of the raid in force made by the al
lied ayiators upon the Tentonic forces
in Southern Serbia. Sixteen French
aeroplanes are said to have attacked
Monastir and Greveli, killing 100 per.
sons in the last named city.
Newport Cathedral Wrecked
Most significant Of tho dispatches
ceiling of the fighting on the western
front is one from Berlin that describes
the destruction of the famous old ca
thedral at Newport, which had escaped
the ravages Of the earlier battles OF
the war. The Teuton reports says that
German gunners wrecked the cathedral,
which was built in the fifteenth cen.
fury, because It was being used as an
observation point by the Belgians.y,
Dunkirk, long immune to German al.
taeks, again was raided yesterday BY
German ayiators, who dropped bombs
on the city about six clock yesier.
day morning. About the same tins
British seaplanes attacked a German
seaPlane and forced it to drop into the
sea off Neuport
The Germans yesterday began bonn
bardment of Nancy with their long
range guns and simultaneously launch.
ed an aeroplane attack on the French
town. An official French eommunique
says that the damage is trivial.
Hard Fighting at Artois
At Artois the Germans made an at.
tack in force. Their attack was pre-.
coded by large blasting operations.
About 1900 yards of the Allied trenches
were blown up and the Germans, eharg-
ing from their covered positions, oc.
cupied the '"cratersH thus made. Later
the French, by series of counter
charges, expelled most Of the Germans
and reoccupied the positions.