New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-12-07
GERMANS MOVED
DOMINATE CAMBRIA
BYNG HURtS BACK NINE cOUN-
TER ATTACKS AS FOES FALL
IN WAVES.
lCES ALL DAY
U. S. SOLDIER KILLED IN BATTLE
WITH MEXICAN BANDITS
NEAR BUENA VISTA.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
London, Dec. 4.-"From Gonnelieu
to Marching" Field Marshal Haig's
report from France says, 1.-THE enemy
delivered attacks in great strength
with large forces and has been re
pulsed with heavy losses. The enemy
resumed the offensive on the Cambria
battle front with great violence.
Fighting of an exceptionally severe
nature took place. Our positions
have been maintained except at La
Vacquerie and east of Marcoing,
where our line has been slightly with
drawn"
Copenhagen.-Report that Gen. Kali
edines with 100000 Cossacks had cap
tured Rostov and was marching
toward Moscow was received here via
Haparanda. Bulgaria has decided to
open negotiations with Russia, in ac.
cordance with her allies, and has sent
q I'Bl L III SlltSt " IC IhuCoidh
government, a Sofia dispatch says.
This announcement was made in the
Bulgarian Parliament by Premier
Radoslavoff.
With the British Army in France.
Dec. 3.-Nine separate counter at
lacks against the British positions at
Cambria were defeated by the Haig
forces, according to the reports which
Jay the British killed more Germans
that day than during any similar Pc
riod since the war began. Great waves
of the advancing Teutons were
reaper cuts hay" according to the
west front correspondent. While the
fight is described as a series of coun-
tiers, it was virtually a continuous
struggle, raging from morning till
dark. A number of American engi-
neers were cut off for a time during
one of Saturdays raids, but they
Joined with the British and by their
valiant assistance succeeded in saw
ing themselves.
The Austro-Germans have begun a
new offensive operation on the lower
Piave. Advices from the front say
they were prevented from crossing the
river.
There is nothing beyond artillery
duels on the French front. These bonn
bardments are continuing along the
Aisne and on the Mouse.
Preside, Tex.-Thirty-five Mexican
bandits were killed and many wound
ed in a battle at Buena Vista, Tex,
between United States cavalrymen
and a force of 200 Mexicans which
crossed the international line and at
tempted raids on the cattle ranches
near the border. One American SOL
dier, Private Riggs of the Eighth "a
airy, was killed, and Saddler Noriel Of
Troop X was slightly wounded. An
other American, Justo Gonzales, was
killed, and another ranch employee
with the forces was wounded.
London, Dec. 1.-Germans entered
British positions at various points
south of Masnieres and advanced two
miles at one point, but British re-
gained part of the ground.
The Berlin statement says that "in
aerial engagements and by fire from
the ground our opponents lost thirty
airplanes and two captive balloons.
ION the Cambria battlefield the Brit
ish were repulsed in an attack west
of Bourbon"
On the Italian front the fierce en-
gagements by infantry, in which the
often came into hand to-hand en-
counters, have turned into duels with
the big guns in the billy region north
of the Venetian plain and along the
and lower Piave river.
In Palestine on the line extending
from the northeast of Jerusalem to the
sea, the Turkish forces facing the
troops under Gen. Allenby are showing
considerable activity but as yet have
made no maneuver in the nature of a
general attack.