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Published weekly by Hilfsverein Deutscher Frauen at No. 45 Broadway. New York. N. Y
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On November 25,
strong French forces inaugurated an attack
on the German position in the Champagne.
between St. Hilaire and Souain. but were
beaten off with heavy losses.--The Germans
made progress near Apremont. on the eastern
border of the Argonne Forest.-During the
past two weeks a number of attacks by the
French, who had attempted to advance from
the neighborhood of Belfort, were repulsed
with heavy losses.
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Two German military surgeons. sixty-live
male nurses and nine deaconesses were con-
demned to imprisonment in Paris for alleged
thefts. This was another of several pro-
cedures of this kind.
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The amount of indemnity paid up to this date
to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg was
l.574.000 francs. +
The Council of the Swiss Federation issued
a decree according to which aviators of the
belligerent countries flying over Swiss territory
were to be shot down without warning.
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Thc English battleship "Bulwark" (launched
I899. l5.250 tons displacement) sank off
Sheerness at the mouth of the Thames as the
result of an explosion. Out of 750 members
of the crew. I4 were picked up. The rest
were blown to pieces.
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After weclrs of unsuccessful bombarding. the
Russian artillery gave up shelling Liitzen.
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All the advanced German forces
succeeded in making their way to
the northwest through the broken
Russian front at Brzeziny. The
German losses were very small,
while the Russians had sacriiiced in
the battles of the few days previous-
ly at Lodz and Lowitsch altogether
40,000 unwounded prisoners, 70
guns, 160 munition wagons and 156
machine guns. Thirty more guns
were dismantled.--A German medi-
cal column of 45 men who had
fallen into the hands of the Russians
while caring for the wounded in
Brzeziny, were sent to Siberia in
violation of the Geneva Convention.
The battle in south Poland gradually as-
sumed the character of a fight for position.
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The 11th, 73rd and 102nd regiments
of the Austro-Hungarian army
stormed the strong Serbian position
at Lazarevatz at the center of the
hostile front, took 1,200 prisoners,
and captured three cannon, four
The entire net proceeds go to the nee
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children of German soldiers in the field