Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-02-15
BERLIN CLAIMS NEW
GAINS IN THE WEST IN
TWO ENGAGEMENTS
Trenches Over a Front of 700
Yards Captured Northwest
of Tahlre and 400 Yards in
the Region of AnerSept


WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-THE fierce
German attacks against the French
front were continued today, and accord
ing &c Berlin. resulted in the capture of
trenches over fronts of LOO yards in
two engagements.
Seven hundred yards were taken from
the French northwest of Tahure and 500
men with seven officers were made pris-
oners In the engagement The other
400 yards were taken i'm the region of
Anersept, near the French frontier.
Six persons were killed in an air raid
on Milan. Italy.
The British cruiser Arethusia has been
sunk by a mine off the east coast of
England and reports of the sinking of
the French cruiser, Amirsl Charner by
IA German submarine off the coast Of Syr-
IA have been confirmed
An admiralty statement given out in
London today declared that the cruiser
Arethusia struck a mine and ten men
were lost in the sinking of the ship
One survivor from the cruiser Amiral
Charner' has been picked up off the
coast Of Syria. according TO Paris. At the
time of his rescue he was floating on a
raft with the bodies of fourteen of his
companions. He declared that he cruis-
er was sunk on the morning of Febru'
airy
In the Balkans the entente forces are
reported extending their positions around
Saloniki. concentrating troops as far as
the Bulgarian frontier. In Albania the
situation continuous mixed. Bulgarian
troops are said to have advanced in the
south as far as Fieri. sixteen miles from
Avlona, while an Austrian column re-
Gently was reported at Tirana, about
twenty miles west of Durazzo.
The Italians have been in force al
Avlona and seem to have also a consid-
cradle body Of troops opposing the Aus
TRANS in the DuraZZo sector.
Reports from Athens credit the Turk
ish government with the intention
strongly TO reinforce it's armies in Mes
opotamia. where the British on the
Tigris are struggling to push their way
TO Kut-el-AIahr and the relief of their
beleaguered little army there. Turks in
formidable numbers, il is said. are be-
ing sent to the Mesopotamia war thea
ter some from the Dsrdanelles and some
from Thrace.
Recent Turkish official accounts have
indicated no important change in the
situation near Kut. but the latest one
contained a report that insurgents
probably Irregular Arabs were active
along the British lines of communica-
tion.
Military observers in Petrograd and
elsewhere have pointed out that there
were possibilities Of the Russian opera
tions in the Caucasus and i'm Persia be-
ing linked up eventually with those of
the British along the Tigris. Whether
this possibility or other reasons have
caused the increase in Turkish atten-
ton TO the Mesopotamian field has not
developed.
All single men OF military age in
Great Britain who have not been ex-
enipted under the military service act
were called to the colors by an official
proclamation ISSUED today.
1t is unofficially stated that the next
British vote of credit soon to be intro
duced in parliament will be 250,O0o,O0o
pounds sterling, making the total war
credits 1,s12, 0Oo,0 900 pounds sterling.