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THE GREAT WAR APACE. -0.

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THE GREAT WAR APACE. -0. FRENCH CAPTURE HALF A VILLAGE. I FURIOUS HODSE-TO HOUSE COMBAT IN ALSACE, SAFETY OF AN INTREPID AIRMAN: HEWLETT RESCUED BY DUTCH TRAWLER. j RUSSIAN ARMY CORPS INVADE HUNGARY. I sGrREAT RE-ORGANISATION SCHEME FOR BRITISH LAND FORCES. I I BRITISH WARSHIP FOUNDERED BY MINE OR TORPEDO. I SEVERAL HUNDRED LIVES LOST. I CONSPICUOUS FRENCH TRIUMPH IN ALSACE. I RUSSIANS' STUNNING BLOW TO THE TURKS. I FRIDAY. However bright the German pros- pects may have been in 1914, with the dawn of New Year they were deplor- ably, bad- Excellent news of progress in Champagne was received, and the enemy's second line of trenches north of Mesnil-les-Hurius, where the French had made persistent advance, was 1;reached. Apart from the gain of ground, it was evident that it could not be long before this pressure exercis'd nn effect on the German positions before Rheims. An ext rem el v stubborn combat was raging for possession of the village of Steinbach, one of the positions com- manding the way to Mulhausen. Tho French, who captured house by house, bold at least half the village. A Berlin message stated that over 3^0 British and French warships had be- gun a bombardment of Pola and Ro- vigno, Austria's most important naval ports and arsenals. Bougainville, the largest of the Solo- mon Islands, belonging to Germany, was seized by an Australian Force. Reports showed that Flight-comman- der Hewlett, who took part in the Cux- haven raid, was rescued by a Dutch trawler, and landed at Ymniden. SATURDAY. A sign of the great progress of Br;- tish military effort was shown in the issue of an Army Order announcing the re-organisation of our land forces into six armies, each consisting gener- ally of three Army Corps. On the basis of 40,000 to an Army Corps, the new scheme will deal with 72.000 men In Flanders the lull in operations was maintained, whilst on the right wing in the Argonnes, on the and in Alsace the Germans had been making very violent attacks in he en •deavour to regain lost ground. A raid on Metz and Arnaville was made hv French nviatois. who dropped bombs on the railway stations, and caused considerable damage to the enemy's military positions and trans- port material. On Friday the Briti-b bnPlo.ship Formidable was sunk in the Channel, whether by mine or submarine was n) certain. Seventy-one survivors were lacked up by a British light cruiser, and it was quite possible that othw's mi"hr have been rc.vued by other ves- sels. MONDAY. I Undoubtedly the most interesting news on Monday was the unofficial an- nouncement that eight Russian Arm,7 Corps had literally poured into Hun- gary, and a state of panic soon pre- vailed. In Austria the existing mooi was one of disguised despondency, and there was a growing expectation )f events among observers which would modify the present position in an im- portant degree. I Owing to bad weather, there was a Pere-eptible slackening of the Allies' offensive i the West". But the artillery en both sides had been particularly J lge ic. Two ammunition wacoons were blown up by the German guns, nut several successes were scored b,7, the French artillery, trenches on tho left wing being completely wrecked, and a train in Oltkirch Station was shelled. With regard to the Russians, the im. pression all along the line was one of the utmost satisfaction, the feeling that the new German advance at Mlawa was in no way dangerous being con* finned. The. Admiralty had issued a further list of two officers and 117 men saved from the disaster to the Formidable W ifh the list of fourteen officers an i sixty-six men issued on Friday, this makes a total of sixteen officers and 183 men rescued, out of a total complc ment of between 750 and 800. TUESDAY. I The French, after desperate fighting maintained for several days, had won important positions in the Vosges. Steinbach had also been taken in addition to a height west of Cernay. North-west of Pont-a-Mous:son, the Allies had made further progress, but on the rest of the front, from the east to the sea, there was an absence of hos- tilities, except for fierce artillery duels in which the German batteries Wad been worsted. German communiques confirmed the success of the French in Alsace, but claimed that the height lost at Cernay was recaptured. In Poland, the Germans had made another attempt to cross the river Bzura, but they were repelled with heavy loss, as was their centre which made an attack at Bolimoff. In GaJicia and Bukowina, the re- treat of the Austri,a,n-s was being has- tened, the Russian pursuit being pressed. With the occupation, of Bukowina and Western Galicia, the Russians would be in possession of a network of strategic railway lilies^ which would greatly facilitate the invasion of Hungary. The Turks had managed to resist the Russians in the Caucasus, but had sustained severe reverses, and in the Sarykamysh area they had lost 6,000 men to the Russians. According to* a Rumanian Deputy, Rumania intends to enter the field on the sides of the Allies in the spring, with five to six hundred thousiand men. WEDNESDAY. Standing out prominently in Wed- nesday's news was the report of a de- cisive victory by the Russians over the Turks at Sarykamysh, the whole of the Ninth Turkish Army being taken prisoners, and the captors were con- tinually in hot pursuit. Through Transylvania the Russians were sweeping boldly, and were al- ready in possession of eight communes of Hungary. This was of grave im- portance to the Germans in Poland; and messages from German sources stated that the utmost pressure was being felt in the region of Cracow, against which the Russians were now advancing on a wide front. There had Ibeen no check to the Allies' offensi ve movements in Flanders and Alsace. More ground had been gained among the dunes on the coast, and a considerable clearance had been effected in front of St. George's. The mission of peace to Italy on the part of Prince Buelow had proved a fiasco. Italy, whilst expressing will- ingness to intervene for peace when Germany requested, refused to give a pledge that she would not take part in tho War. THURSDAY. The Paris official communique on Wednesday reported very successful operations, the French brilliantly recover- ing trenches in La Gjrurie Wood, whilst German trenches nearly half-a-mile long were blown up near an Argonne ravine. Details were given of the disaster that had overtaken the Tiirco-Ger-nan invasion of the Caucasus, the Russians having scored a decisive victory. In the House of Lords on Wednesday, Earl Kitchener made his third review as Secretary for War.

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