The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-10-30
A GENERAL SURVEY OF
The WAR.

Thursday, Oct. 22.-The French war
office announces that the allied lines
are holding in spite of the furious on
slaushts of the enemy, while dispatch
es from London assert that develop
ments generally are against the in
vaGerS
The German announcement said that
in fighting west of Lille German
troops, taking the offensive, had re-
pulsed the enemy at several points
British warships have played an i'm
portant part in these operations and
there are indications that their activ-
tiles are not at an end.
The German garrison at Antwerp
is said to have been reduced and
a German column of reinforcement
with two of the famous sixteen inch
is reported as having passed through
ANTWERP on it's way to Bruges.
Friday, Oct. 23.-The Germans and
the allies continue their desperate
game of give and take in West Fland
ers and northeastern France, neither
ST l., claiming a decisive ADVANTAGE.
Frcl il war ships are said to have join
ell the British naval forces FORMING
the extreme left of the allies and fresh
Ge!1-an re-enforcements are reported
constantly coming up.
Ire French official statement says
that violent attacks are being made by
the Germans all along the line from
the sea to the Canal La Bassee. They
hive also delivered heavy blows in the
region of Arras and on the River
Soume
Russian reports continue to insist
that the German advance on Warsaw
has been turned into a retreat. 1t is
admitted, however, that Germans and
Austrians etill hold the Vistula south
of the Bill yer. Berlin and Vienna
report Aue.Ilan successes south Of
PrZenysl
Saturday, Oct. "a. - The Germans
have advanced to the north Of Dix
nude and and in the neighborhood of
La Bassee. but as a counter stroke, it
is said, the French have pushed for
ward of Newport, in the region of
La1 Sc marck, and between Armen-
there's and Lille. These, in the
LANGUAGE of the French war office, are
''inestImable fluctuations of a contest
WAGE. so fiercely." The war office
contents itself with the German state
ment that the line of combat as
whole has been maintained
Over the remainder of the long bat
tie front the deadlock continued.
Regarding the situation in the east
there is, as heretofore, conflict of
claims. The French war office asserts
that the Germans are falling back
south of Warsaw, as we'll as west OF
IvanCorod. Reports from Russian and
Austrian sources agree in saying that
one of the bitterest battles of the war
is in progress along the River San.
An official Austrian statement reports
the repulse of Russians, who had been
permitted to cross the river and were
then attacked. Dispatches from Pc
trograd. however, report that the Aus
TRAN assault was repulsed by vigor-
o is counter attacks of the Russians.
Sunday, Oct. 25.-The battle be-
tween Newport and the River Lys
continues violently. German forces
have crossed the User river between
Nieuport and Dixmunde West and
south of Lille lively attacks by the
Germans have been repulsed by the
allies. Between the Disc and the Ar
GONE forest there is nothing new to
report beyond some slight advances
by the allies northwest of scissors
and in the Caronne district. On the
heights of the Meuse an artillery duel
is in progress. Paris reports an entire
German infantry regiment annihilated
during an engagement in the forest
north of Iachalade.
In the eastern theater of war the
Germans have been driven back fifty
miles from the Vistula, according to
a Petrograd dispatch. The Russians
took Lovinz, Skirniewice and Rawa.
Along the River San and south OF
Przemysl desperate fighting continues
An attempt by the Austrians to turn
the Russians left wing south of Prem
ysl failed, the Austrians suffering
great losses