PREPARATIONS IN ALSACE FOR VIOLENT GERMAN OFFENSIVE
RAILROADS RESERVED FOR TRANSPORTATION (Received January 27, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 26th January. Berne reports that the Germans are making great preparations in Alsace. It is believed they are about to begin a violent offensive in the Vosges. The railroads in southern Germany have been reserved for the transportation of troops to the frontier. ATTACKS ALONG THE LINE (Received January 27, 9 a.m.) PARIS, 26th January. A communique states*.— The Germans were repulsed east of -Ypres, three hundred being killed. The enemy made five attacks on the British lines at Givenchy and Guinc% (both just west of La Bassee). and made slight progress. They were then repulsed, leaving many dead and sixty prisoners. The Germans penetrated our trenches west of Craonne (eleven miles southeast of Leon), but our rounter-attack recaptured them all except one, where the struggle continues.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 22, 27 January 1915, Page 7
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