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FRENCH AND GERMANS SUFFER HEAVILY IN DESPERATE BAYONET CHARGES Basle, Switzerland, Jan. 2&r-Emr peror Franz Jqpeph has sent, new Austrian foreign minister, Baron Burian Von Raiecz, to Germany to confer with Emperor Williain -with a view to ending war, Paris. German losses in last three days of fighting in Prance and Fland ers total at least 20,000, French war office craims. French artillery destroyed some German trenches in Belgium, along Lys. English gunners weer equally successfully, forcing Germans to abandon their attempts to concen trate troops In north for assaults upon allied lines. Artillery fighting is in progress near arras, and near Roys and Noyon, northwest of Solssons. So heavy were German losses yes terday, when infantry attacks were ordered in commemoration of the kaiser's birthday, that hillsides in the Craonne region and at several other points on battlefront, were covered with German dead and' wounded. There was a consequent lull In the in fanthy fighting in these regions to day while ambulances carried dead from field. Berlin, via Wireless to London. Heavy French losses, running into thousands, were claimed by war office to have resulted in the three days' fighting around Craonne, where Ger mans captured several strong posi tions. German attacks on hills held by French near Craonne have been re sumed an Germans have made fur ther advances, capturing 500 yards, of trenches, commanding other strong French positions. War office continued to disregard, as insignificant, the Russian move ments in East Prussia and Poland. Russian attacks in both regions were repulsed. Paris. -T- The .general headquarters gf the fifteenth Germany army corps j at Strassburg have been completely destroyed by fire of incendiary origin. Paris, Jan. 2$., Increased actiyity by kaiser's airmen, coupled with rumors of Zeppelin raid on Paris, caused war office to announce new aerjal defense plans today. Aviators win he stationed by pairs upon out skirts pf city, ready to take air to engage invading sky warriors. They will be supported by armed French dirigibles. Athens Fierce fighting between advance guarls of Turkish armies now menacing Suez canal and British outposts have occurred at three points in desert east of waterway. Arabian horsemen, scouting ahead of a Turkish army declared to be op erating toward Ismailla, an import ant British stronghold midway be tween Port Said and Suez, have en countered outposts of British Indian troops. Arabians were outnumbered and fell back upon maid body of Tur kish troops after sustaining slight losses. Savage attack was made by small band of Turkish troops upon British garrison at BJr Helen, southeast of El Kantara, where skirmishing was re ported in Cairo dispatches yesterday.. This attack, also, was repulsed. ' London. Drastic treatment of German airmen who hurl bombs upon unfortified cities was proposed here today. It was sugegsted that Germans captured in attempted air raids upon unprotected towns be treated as criminals and formally tried on murder charges, instead of receiving the treatment usually ac corded prisoners of war. Petrograd, Jan. 28. Stubborn re sistance has been encountered by the Russian army advancing toward Ko nigsberg in East Prussia. The Ger mans have posted heavy artillery on the west bank of the Inster,. north. f fneterfeurg and are attempting t lfi agWii-ifliaiiiaai,"Aiiaa