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No. 47
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Mrs. Else von Rothe, Chairman; Mrs. arl
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Published weekly by Hiifsverein Dentscher Frauen at No. 45 Broadway, New York, N. Y.
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for six months.
Entered at the Post Omce, New York, N. Y., as second-class matter.
January 22 (concluded).
After several days of severe tight-
ing in southern Bukovina, the Aus-
trians, reinforced by troops from
the Government of Marmaros (Hun-
gary), captured Kirlibaba and the
commanding heights in the vicinity,
occupying the Luczyna Pass. The
Russians suffered heavy losses and
retreated hastily to Moldava and
Pozoritta. Thus their attempt to
advance into Transylvania was frus-
trated.
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Persian tribesmen captured the town of Kas-
win. south of the Caspian Sea in Persia.
which had up to that time been occupied by
the Russians.
An English cruiser shelled the German East
African custom house on the island of Kwale.
seventy-five kilometers south of Dar-es-Salam.
On January 23,
German train service was inaugura-
ted between Lille and Lodz after
the line between Ostrovo and Lodz
had been put into commission.
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French torpedo boat No. 219 was sunk off
Nieuport. All of its crew with the exception
of five men were saved.
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A German aviator dropped four bombs on
the shipyard at Dunkirk and set it atire.
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In the Forest of La Grurie (Western Argon-
nes) French attacks were repulsed. The
German attack progressed on the battlefield
north of Sennheim at the Hartmannsweiler-
kept and northwest of Uffholz.
The second of the two trenches southwest of
Berry-au-Bac. north of the Aisne. near the
road between Laon and Rheims which had
been taken from the French on January 20.
had to be abandoned to them.
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German troops captured a Russian position
north of Borzymov. between the Ravlta and
the Sucha; enemy counter-attacks were blood-
ily repulsed.-Southeast of the mainstream
of the Piliza. northwest of Opotchno. Rus-
sian drives were repulsed.
The second Russian line of the Uszok Pass
was taken: the Austro-Hungarian troops ad-
vanced along both sides of the Ung valley to
the east toward the crest of the mountains.
To prevent the Russian hordes from invading
Hungary. a newly formed German southern
army composed in part of Austrian troops.
was brought into action southeast of the
Uszok Pass in the Talabor valley. southeast
of Oekoermezoe.
In western Galicia. Austrian heavy artillery
destroyed the Russian railway line east and
northeast of Tamov and compelled the enemy
to evacuate some trenches on the Biala, south
of Tarnov.
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The entire net proceeds go to the needy
children at German soldiers in the tleid