The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-10-02
ALLIES CLAIM
GROUND GAINED
OVER GERMANS
Italy Protests to Austria on Use
of Floating Mines In the
Adriatic Sea.
RUSSIAN ADVANCES
IN EAST PRUSSIA
French Official Announcement
Declares Situation Is But
Little Modified.
(BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.)

(BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.)
The screen of secrecy erected by
| the censorship almost entirely across
| northern France, behind which the
| military craftsmen have for the last
three weeks been fashioning the ugh
outlines of new map of the eastern
hemisphere, stands today almost un-
! impaired. 1t has, however, judging
from indications in London, been pune
tured here and there with holes that
permit of some inkling of the events
that are happening on the stage
behind. From what can be deducted
from these fragmentary glimpses
there would appear to be justification
for the optimism manifested on the
part of the allies.
Germans Reported Repulsed.
LONDON, Oct. IAN official COM
munication issued at Antwerp, ac-
cording to dispatch to the Reuters
telegraph company says: "The Ger
man artillery during yesterday con-
tinued a bombardment of our first
line of forts in the south. Our works
suffered little, but we are still in a
condition to make effective resist
ance."
A second dispatch to the Reuters
from German general headquarters
says: "Hostile forces are advancing
to the north and south of Albert, a
town in France to the northeast Of
Amiens. Attacking yesterday ;eev
were easily repulsed. In Argonne our
attack is progressing steadily although
slowly. At other points on the Meuse
line there is no change"
Russians Progressing.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.-Colonel
Golejewski, military attache of the
Russian embassy, today issued the fol-
lowing official report from Petrograd:
*On September %, after stubborn
fighting our troops captured the Ger
man positions at Augustowo and Ko-
retz. On Sept. 29 we took the defles
between the lakes at Simmo Sereje
and Lejpuny. The Germans have been
driven back in the region between
Suwalki, Sejney and Maripol. Our
advance continues. The bombardment
of Oshowjetz has so far been without
success.
Cholera in Austrian Army.
LONDON, Oct. Ia late dispatch
to the Exchange Telegraph company
from Rome states that General Won
Auffenburg, commander of the first
Austrian army, is suffering from
cholera, according to a dispatch to
Vienna
Mines Protested by Italy.
ROME, (via London), Oct. 1.-The
Austrian government has replied to
i3he Italian protest against the use of
floating mines in the Adriatic sea.
Austria deplores the sinking of 1tal-
ian vessels and promises to take
steps to remove the menace. 1t is
also promised that the families Of the
victims will be fully indemnified. 1t
is reported that Italy has demanded
| from Austria indemnity of a million
| dollars.
Fighting in the Orient.
TOXIC, Oct. IA severe engage
| ment has been opened by German war
ships which are cannonading the Jap
anese position near Using Tau, east of
Kiao Chau, the German leased ter
ritory in China. Two officers have
been killed. The warships are assist
ed by German aeroplanes. The Jap
anese war office announces that the
artillery duel at Using Tau continues
and that a German torpedo boat des-
troyer was sunk in the harbor We'd
nesday. From other sources it is
Learned that the German destroyer
was sunk by the Japanese siege guns.
Paris Reports Progress.
PARIS, Oct. 1.-The following Of
lfcial communication was issued this
afternoon: "There has been no mod
ifcation in the general situation. We
have nevertheless made progress on
our left to the north of Somme and
on our right in the southern Woevre
district.