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. : s X 1 fc " f u " , . to of r - h :f , 1 lS 1 ot l s ;s d ie of ,f xf of i of " ie it at Ji te id is ii- r- Id a- d r. ot Dt the Je ii- "7 !" the the i 111 t idea lij ,!" j ..,, wiM rfM of an au is tho EUROPEAN WAR DEVELOPMENTS. Li Persistent attacks by the Germans, within forty miles of Warsaw, are admitted by the ofllcial state- incut from the Russian war olliee. It is declared that on the evening of Dec. 7, the Germans began 51 an advance along the entire flfty-mile front from How to Glovno. They were repulsed with enormous losses. Fighting in the vicinity of Mlawa is Icjs violent, it is declared. The statemeut follows: "On Dec. S the lighting in the region of Mlawa was less energetic. On the left bank of the Vistula on Jl the evening of Dec. 7, the Germans commenced an If energetic advance along the entire front from How It to Glovno. They made repeated persistent attacks 1 in dense columns. The Russian fire, aided by search- It lights which swept the German lines, resulted in It enormous losses to the enemy. The Germans were 1 repulsed everywhere. On the same day stubborn 15 lighting between Lowlcz and How was without re- 1J suit for tho Germans. Fighting continues, with the IS situation unchanged in the Piotrkow region, South 1 of Cracow the battle is still in progress, the lighr- 1 ing being pressed with great persistency. The Germans endeavored three times to break the Russian line, but were repulsed with heavy losses." Act cording to advices received and published by the s;i Berliner Tageblatt, the battle in South Poland is ai and developing favorably for the Germans and Austrian?, lit The Russian forces, which were originally lined ra liow-shaped around Cracow, according to the Tage- w blatt have now been repulsed at the wings. The Amsterdam Telegraaf prints a Berlin dispatch stat- 11 114. ing that the sound of Russian guns is plainly audible at Cracow, that Austrian aeroplanes are Hying over the Russian troops and dropping bombs, and that the residents of the city are digging cellars in which to hide during the bombardment that threatens. The British official bureau announced last evening that the cruiser Numbers, which escaped when three other German warships were sunk by the British olf South America, also has been sunk by an Eiig- i lish fleet. There are believed to have been nine warships in the British fleet under Vice Admiral Sir Frederick Charles Doveton Sturdee,. .which defeated the German fleet under Admiral Graf von Spee, off the Falkland Islands, Tuesday, with the loss of near- ly 2,000 lives. The battleship Canopus, which ar- x rived too late to take part in the engagement off Chile November 1, when two English cruisers were sunk, is believed to have played a prominent part . in the sinking of the German armored cruisers t. Scharnhorst. Gneisenau and Leipzig. The text of the British official statement reads: "A further telegram has licen received from Vice-Admiral Sir i Doveton Sturdee reportiug that the Nurnberg also was sunk on Dec. S, and that the search for the -Dresden still is proceeding. The action lasted for , five hours, with intervals. The ScJiarnhorst sank after three hours, and the Gneisenau, two. hours later. The enemys light cruisers scattered and 1 were chased by our cruisers and light cruisers. No 1 7 loss of any British vessel is reported." j The Servian legation at Rome makes public a i report from Servian headquarters to the effect that : j the Servian army has won a complete victory result- i ing in the re-capture of the towns or Valjevo and I Ushitza, in Servia, and the rout of two Austrian 1 corps. The Austrlans, says the report, aliaudoned I everything, even their treasure chest. The Servians took 20,000 prisoners, fifty cannon ana large s quantities of rifles, machine guns and munitions s J J. of every description. The official communication is- - c sued at Vienna says: "Part of our troops in Servia 1 f encountered west of Milanovatz strong hostile forces i s and could not break through them. In order to j avoid a counter attack some of troops "were ordered 1 v to occupv more favorably situated positions. On De-: ceinber S we captured twenty guns and took numerous- - prisoners," - Just how serious is the illness of Kaiser AVilhelm 1 II., emperor of Germany, is shrouded in considerable - mystery. While the official bulletins issued 1 " from the sickroom contain no further reference to -the nature of the ailment since the earlier state- j ment that he Is suffering from "bronchial catarrh 1 and a feverish condition," there are persistent un- . official aud unconfirmed reports indirectly from Rer- . 1 liu that the .emperor- is a victim of pneumonia. Late f. J and apparently reliable advices are that the illness s ! has been severe, but that the worst is over These -advices are that the kaiser was seized with an attack . of influenza while on a secret visit to Emperor r Francis Joseph. Sources of information by way or r t Holland and Copenhagen indicate that he is now v. -making progress toward recovery. j Yesterdays official communication issued by the 1 t German army Headquarters staff asserts that a , , . French attack resumed in the forest of Argoiine was J repulsed, the allied forces losing heavily. The text of the statement reads: "In the district of Sou-ain the French confined themselves to heavy artillery f firing. A renewed French attack on Rocrol and Cour-cullies . did not make any progress. The attack . broke down under the fire of our artillery, the enemy f suffering heavy Joss. Three of the enemys aviators : dropped about ten bombs on a town situated 1 outside the range of operations Freiburg, Baden.. No damage was done. The incident merely shows s that an open town not situated within the range e of operations has been attacked with bombs hi" the ; enemy." The day of Dee. 9 passed quietly In Belgium, ns s : well as in the vicinity of Arras,- according to the e : official statement given out at the war office in n Paris. The war office claims French advances at t several iioints on the extended battle front and d makes no mention of any reverse. For instance, !, near Le Quesnoy gains of 200 to 000 yards were e made; in the Aisue and on the heights of the Meuse i the French artillery .mastered the batteries of th ; ; i enemy, and near Reims French cannon compelled d the evacuation of trenches. Counter attacks were e repulsed near Perthes and in the Argoime. In the e latter locality new trenches were taken by the o French, An advance by the allies toward Parvilliers, in " the French department of the: Soainie, and a repulse or a German effort to break "through the Anglo-u y. French line at Traey-le-Val, In the department of f the Oise, are reported by the French war office. Aside from this lighting, the latest in the battle along the long lino from the North Sea to the X Vosges mountains, the allies maintained their gains along the Yser river and elsewhere in Belgium, ,. strengthening their new positions. Germany, how-g I" ever, also claims gains aud the French war office admits that at one point the Germans blew up a ;r French trench. It is officially announced that Subhi Bey. late fp governor of Basra, Asiatic Turkey, commander of i the Turkish forces at Kurna. has surrendered un-"l 11- conditionally with his troops to the Indian expedi-f tionarv force which is operating at the head of the Persian gulf. Kurna subsequently was occupied by tho British, who are now in complete control of the countrv from the junction of the Tigris and F,n-il phrateV rivers to the sea and of the richest part cf the fertile delta. Military experts at Berlin regard the German vic-" tories in Poland of such importance that it is be-f.e lleved no further extensive operations will be under-J taken on the eastern frontier until spring. The belief is expressed that the Germans now will bo able to transfer ten army corps from the eastern zone to the western field of operations, which will result in another -vigorous attempt to reach the French channel iHirts. A Turkish detachment of twenty-three men landed with horses at Bourns, a small port on the Black Sea, near Odtvssa. The Turks struck inland and were captured four miles from Tarutlno, Bessar-.1 abla. They were disarmed and taken to Tarutlno. The province of Bessarabia is in southeastern Russia, adjoining Rouniania. Tarutino is a German colony of about -.1,000 inhabitants. The Turkish government, through Ambassador Morgenthau, has signified to the state department its willingness that an. expedition be sent to the re lief of the people In. Jerusalem. The expedition is being organized by Hebrew philanthropic societies in New York, which ".plan to sent a ship through the Mediterranean to Palestine, Three German merchantmen were sunk by British or Japanese warships off the coast of Terra Del Fuego, the southernmost extremity of South Amer-, ica last Sunday, according to advices received at Beunos Aires. The Berliner Tageblatt States: "The pope lias appealed to all the belligereut powers with the ob-cs ject of arranging a three weeks truce for Christ-a" mas. Germany is unopposed to this in principle." The Russian government has notified neutral shin-fa ping that military reasons compel it to place miner, off the Russian and Turkish coasts aud ports in tho Black Sea. According to a telegram from Maastricht. Hoi-land, the Germans are confiscating, telephone wire and all copper articles of drmiostic use in Belgium. The Hamburg-American Hue lias issued a statement that it has no intention of selling its slips now iu American waters. Unconfirmed reports which have reached Amster-or dam state that Dixmudo has been occupied by the allies. Official announcement was made that Czar Nicli-sel olas has gone to the Caucasian front.
