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Paris:—Again’ on Friday and,

Saturday nights the German
made furious attacks on th

French positions at La Basse and
Givenchy, says a despatch to the
Havas news agency from St,
Omas, in northwestern’ France.
.The Germans tried desperately

to break the British line; bu

before the end of the battle the
. Seotch Highlanders drove them

_ baek at the point of the bayonet,
inflicting great loss,

Wellington, N. Z,:—New Zea-
land has arranged to buy one mil-

lion bushels of Canadian wheat,
to be delivered"in July

_ London, Feb. 2:—Five hostile
airships, accordingtio a telephone
message from Dover, were driv-
en off by gunfire of the forts.
- They turned and sailed away,

apparently not penetrating in-
land.

A despatch to the Exchange

Telegraph Co,, from Dover Says,

“Yhe harbor batteries opened
fire tonight, while searchlights

swept the water. It is believed

that German submarines were

the cause of the activity.
London : — Dover

airships and submarines. Lon-
don is in darkness, prepared for
' araid. The enemy were driven
off to the Eastward.
Washington: — Great Britain
notified the United States today
-that foodstuffs of any kind des-
tined toGermany would beregard-
--ed ascontraband. A forecast of |-
_ the shipping bill- made after.a
ecosference at the White House
between President. _Wilson and
Senators Kenyon and’ Norris is,
that the U.28. ‘will not’ ‘buy?ships
_ which would involve controversy
with belligerent*nations..
@eParis, Web, 2,8 official:— Yes-
terday was marked by the re-
doubled intensity of artillery
‘ fighting on our part! "and by a
series of German attacks, all of
whieh were repulsed with serious
loss. In Belgium, the heavy
German artillery was very active
against the Belgian troops at
Yser.
Petrograd,---An announcement
has been made that in future,
attacks on unfortified towns will
be treated as acts of piracy.

‘London, Feb. 8:—That a ‘ter-
rible loss of life was suffered by
the: Germans in attempting to
take British trenches, is reported
. in the account of a British official
eye-witness of two German at-
tacks between La Bassee canal
and the Bethune road, on Jan 29.

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batteries
opened fire last night on German

sunk on Jan. 7 off the Patagon-
ian coast by the British cruiser
bo Australia...”

tothe Falkland Islandg.

WAR BULLETINS

In the center, our men, firmly

s| established in brick fields, gave
e| the Germans a very warm recep-

tion and the latter fell hack,
leaving fifty dead in front of this
point alone. To the south of this
they temporarily gained posses-
sion of a small portion of one of
,| our trenches, but they were im-
mediately counter-attacked with
the bayonet and every man in
the trench was killed, The same
thing happened when they tried
to take the Bethune road, where
the Germans gained another of
our trenches, only to be bayon-
etedtoaman, After the fizht-
ing was over, the enemy's dead
to the estimated number of two
hundred, lay back all along our
ine,
Paris, Feb. 3:—The official
communication today says, “‘From
the sea to the Lvs, the German
artillery has tried, without suc-
cess to reduce ourbatteries,
London:—A despaich to the
“Morning Post’ from Petrograd
says that Russian suomarines,
besides seriously injuring’ the
German cruiser Gazelle recently
in the Baltic. also sank a German
gunboat, and as a result of their
activity, German warships are
no longer moving around ‘in the
Baltic with their former freedom,
Copenhagen’ newspapers, some
of which still have correspond-
ents at Constantinople, have re-
ceived reports. that the Anglo.
French fleet’ has destroyed
four of the Dardanelles forts,
and they also state that there is
a panic in the Turkish capital,
where the defeats suffered by
the Turkish armies in Caucasus
and in Azerbaijan are just be-
cuming known.
“Amaterdam: —French military
aviators dropped bombs on Reich-
Weiller, near Mulhausen, last
Friday. Some damage is report:
ed, although details are not yet |.
known. They were pursued by
German aircraft, but succeeded
in escaping:

Cairo, Feb, 4, Officiat commun-
ieation:—During Tuesday night
the enemy attempted -to cross the
Suez Canal, near Toussoum (85
miles north of Suez), They
were permitted to bring bridging
material to the bank of the canal
unmolested, but directly they
started bridging operations, our
troops attacked and the enemy
fled in disorder, leaving all mat-
erialin our hands. Several of
the enemy were drowned,

The enemy also. attacked on
the El Kantara front (40: miles
‘south of Port Said) at daylight
today. They were easily repuls-
ed, losing 16 killed or. wounded
and 40 prisoners. Our eagual-
ties were three men wounded, | .
British forces had a skirmish
with the Turks yesterday, in the
neighborhood of Ismalia, on Late
Timsah, Suez Canal... ‘Lhe Turks
finally retreated, Lhe British
had six men wounded, The en-
gagement
sandstorm, but. the shooting of
the. Turks, both with rifle: and
artillery, waa bad.

newspaper announces that a
German auxiliary cruiser, for-|.
merly of the Woerman Line, wag

‘The.crew was taken

~, COME. AND EAT!

‘official Mespateh was.

- Paris, Feb, 4:-—The following. ‘

cept that in
ed,

2-3.

arations and
frontier,

today: There is nothing of par-
ticular importance to report, ex-.

German attacks were all repuls<
In Argonne, a fresh attack
on Bagatelle was'repulsed by. our’
troops during the night of Feb.

London —A wireless despatch
from Berlin, says the “Berlinger
Tageblatt” reports from Con-
stantinople, that Greece is indus-
trially making mobilization prep-

Paris, Feb. 5, Official commun-
ication:—Artillery engagements.
have oceurred in Belgium, and
to the north of Arras, west of the
toad between Lille and Arras.
We have captured from two to
three metres of the enemy's.
trenches, north of Albert,
the very efficient shooting of. our
artillery in the valley of the Aisne,
German batteries were ‘silenced,
caissons were blown up, men-en-
gaged in construction’ work were
dispersed and aeroplanes put to
flight. In front of Verdun, they;
brought down an aeroplane, tak-
ing the aviators prisoners. Heavy
snowfalls are reported in Vosges,
There has been
trench fighting with saps and
hand grenades,. near Altkirch.
Amsterdam:
Hungarian war press bureau has
issued the following statement,

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“artitlery and infantry fighting | @
continues along :the Nida river.
We evacuated Tarnow- (Galicia),
after the. Russians had bombard-
ed- ‘with-heavy mortars, - A- de-|
cisive battle is being. fought. in
‘the region of Dukla, where strong. i
Russian pregsure is being felt,
Fighting in the. Car pathians. is
being seriously interfered with
by deep-snow,.

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Archduke Ferdihand’s army near
Nowa Sayre, and their attack on|t
Cracow, hag ied -to a. counter of: |:
fensive by the Archduke.againat | §
‘Tarnow. Tarnow isa town of ’
40,000 inhabitants, and lies 135
miles west of Lemberg,

New York, Feb. B:—An an-
nouncement by the German ad-
miralty that they will attack. any
vessel in waters of Great Britain
after oe 18, will not aitert the ge Heerlereeb ete
Salling | o ritish ‘an rene

lines, The British -Government “Just Arrived z.
intimates that it will use retalia-| 4 pi
tory measures against German a
trade, ;
Petrograd, Official: —On the ;
left bank of the Vistula; the-en- |Z:
emy massed 84,000 men and 100):
batteries of artillery on six miles ;
of front, in an effort to break our |
lines, Our counter-attack, at the];
point of the bayonet, forced them |:
to take the defensive: We took
two. lines of. trenches and entered
Wola. .-In_the Carpathians, we.
advanced oh Oujok, taking 2,000
prisoners. and 10 machine - guns.

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