Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1915 — EUROPEAN WAR NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

EUROPEAN WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

The allies in Belgium and France and the Russians in Poland are both making progress against the opiu>sing forces, according to latest official statements issued from Paris and Petrograd. The Germans, who are endeavoring to * advance on Warsaw, seeming have lieen held in check, while Russian advance columns have stormed and captured the important pass of Kirlibaba, leading from llukowina into Hungary.

The Turks in the Caucasus have met with another disaster in the neighborhood of Kara-Urgan, advices from Tillis assert, the 11th Turkish Corps having been routed and all its artillery captured. Regarding the operations in the Caucasus, an earlier official communication, issued at Petrograd, said that the 52d Turkish regiment had been overwhelmed by a bayonet attack, mid that in the retreat of the Turkish troops the Russians took more than 5,000 prisoners and vast stores.

Much of the lighting in Relgiuni has lieen clone along the region of N ieujiort and Lombaertzyde, where tile French claim to have forced the Germans to evacuate their trenches in the Great Dune. There have lieen engagements also at various points along the great line extending to the German frontier, and in the Argonne the Germans claim to have secured the advantage, although the operations have been hampered by heavy storms.. A German official estimate places the losses to the allies during the l>ast four weeks in the west, at about 150,000 m en, and at the same time fixes the German losses at less than one-quarter of that numlier.