FOES ARE DEADLOCKED

Aylmer Express Newspaper Article
January 14, 1915

Little Change Has Occurred Along the Western Front.

French In Alsace Are Face to Face With a Large Force of Germans and Neither Side Claims Any Progress – Artillery Duels Are Going on In the North and Hard Fighting Is Reported near Soissons.

LONDON, Jan. 12.- Little change is observed on the western front. In Alsace the French continue, by sapping and sporadic charges, their attempt to force their way nearer the Rhine, but there has been snow in the Vosges, and it is noticeable that neither side claims any new progress. The Germans threw heavy reinforcements into Alsace after the recent French advance, and apparently they have been able to hold their ground, in view of the failure of the French to consolidate the positions they took after much hard fighting.

With a comparative lull in this quarter and artillery duels predominating near the Belgian coast, fighting of a desperate character has broken out in the centre, notably to the northeast of Soissons, which bids fair, through bombardments, to suffer the fate of Rheims, and further east, in the vicinity of Perthes and Beausejour, from which points the allies have been trying to reach the important railway to the north, the seizure of which would cut one of the German main arteries of communication.

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Real War Begins in May. LONDON, Jan. 12. – The British idea that operations up to the present are only preparatory to big events fits in with a bit of gossip now heard ….

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