The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-10-23
A GENERAL SURVEY OF
The WAR.

Thursday, Oct. 15-The Germans,
who are moving on Ostend, are said
to have occupied Bruges, fifteen miles
east of the former city.
There has been heavy fighting east OF
scissors and the ArgOnne and the
Germans have not lost ground at any
point.
TIT. French official statement an
nounces that the allies have made
marked progress in the region of Lens
and between Arras and Albert. In the
Ger ter the allies, it is said, have ad-
vanCed in the direction of Craonne,
while a German offensive movement
north of Saint-Die has been definitely
checked.
Reports regarding the situation in
the eastern theater are as conflicting
as before A dispatch from Petrograd
says that the Austro-German army
was defeated in the neighborhood of
Warsaw, Russia Poland, suffering enor-
nous losses in casualties and pr.@Cr-
ers.
A message from Berlin says that it
was officially announced there that
the battle east of Wirballen, Russian
Poland, continues after eleven days of
fighting, favorable to the Germans, re-
peated advances of the Russians hav-
ing been repulsed with heavy losses.
Friday, Oct. 16.-The British adj
miralty announces that the cruiser
Hawke was sent to the bottom in the
North sea by a German submarine.
The loss of life is reported to be $50.
The field of action on the left wing
of the allied armies extends from
the region of Ypres to the sea. News
dispatch report that the Germans
marching on Ostend are within ten
mics of their objective, having oc-
cupieo Blankenberghe, town on the
Belgian coast connected by rail with
Ostend.
The Paris statement says that Rus
sian troops have repulsed German at
tackS on Warsaw and Ivanogrod, in
Russian Poland, and that a battle is
being fought south of Przemysl. Petro-
grad claims that the German move
ment on Warsaw has been stopped,
the Germans being driven back sew
eral miles.
Saturday, Oct. 1.-THE German
army that successfully besieged Ant
werp has swept VIGOROUSLY westward
along the Belgian coast until, with it's
right resting on Ostend, it forms the
extreme right of the German line
stretching from the North sea to the
Swiss frontier
Tie allied troops have occupied
Fleurbaix and the immediate ap-
proaches to Armentieres, it is an
nounced, while further gains are
claimed in the region of Arras and
the vicinity of ST. Mihiel
Vienna states officially that fighting
continued Thursday along the entire
battle front from Stry and Sambor,
both southeast of Przemysl, to the
mouth of the Sam.
The most recent report from Petro-
grad claimed Russian successes in
Russian Poland.
Sunday, Oct. 19.-The French war
office report says: Armentieres, a
French city on the Belgian frontier
was occupied by the French after the
Germans had been driven out after a
desperate battle At the River User,
below Armentieres and north of the
Arras the allies repulsed German at
tacks and advanced slightly.
The Austrians are reported to have
takel' a large number of Russian forti-
fications south and east of the fortress
of Przemysl and continue on the Of
fensive.
German official headquarters reports
Oct II that the Germans took at
Bruges and Ostend plenty of war ma
teriai, great number of infantry
rifles. ammunition and 200 locomotives.
In the French war theater there have
beer no important developments.
Austrian attempts to cross the Sa,
river have failed South of Przemys
the fighting continues. The German
were reported defeated in an attem
to cross the vistula river.