Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-08-21
SUMMARY OF WAR
SUNDAY.

Nothing is known of recent opera
tons around the Liege forts. Z.
The Austrian warships are at Pola,
the great Austrian fortress, and the
entire coast has been mined.
The retaking by the French of
Thanh, in Alsace, is officially al
nounced, and the wounding of General
Won Defining, commander of the Fiji
teenth German army corps.
The French wal ministry prepares
the public for a great battle, which will
evtend over a line more than $50 miles
in length and in which several millions
of men on either side will be engaged.
Definite information has been re-
ceived of a strong offensive movement
by the French troops on the Franco
German frontier, extending from Lune-
vile to ~Sarrebourg. Official announce
ment is made that Blamont, Grey and
Avricourt were reoccupied after a Ba-
varian army corps was driven out.
MONDAY.
From st. Petersburg came the infor-
nation that Austrian troops have eva
cuated the towns of Kielce and Chen
Gin, in Russian Poland, after an at
tack by Russian cavalry.
The northwest advance of the Au-
stro-Hungarian armies continues along
the right and left banks of the river
Vistula, forming the boundary between
Austria Galicia and Russian Poland.
A Rome dispatch to the Central
News, at London, said refugees arriv-
ing there from Berlin declared that the
socialists are rising in revolt because
of the execution of their leader, DR..
Liebknecht.
A Brussels dispatch to London
brought word that a general engage
ment had occurred in the n~eighborhood
of Namur. The French troops, accord
ing to the report assumed the defens-
i've and repulsed the Germans.
Japan's attitude as a factor in the
European war loomes largely. Follow
ng her ultimatum to Germany demand
ing that she withdraw her warships
and ~evacuate Kinu-Chau uncondition-
ally by August %, Tagaaki Kato, min
lister of foreign affairs, conferred with
Ambassador Guthrie at Toxic and
made a statement calculated to assure
the United States that American in
terests in the orient would be safe
guarded. The integrity of China also
was upheld.
TUESDAY.
The British military and naval move
ments still are shrouded in mystery.
Several Austrian army corps, &C.
cording to advices from Vienna, have
invaded Russia, and the Russian adj
vance in Galacia has been checked.
Brussels admits that the French cas-
ualties in the fighting between Namur
mans were strongly entrenched and
their artillery played great havoc.
The British official news bureau says
that the French fleet in the Mediter-
ranean has made a sweep up the Ad-
Ratio as far as Cattaro. Four Austrian
warships are reported to have been
sunk.
The British official press bureau an
~nounces that any action which Japan
may take against Germany will not
extend beyond the China seas, except
for the protection of Japanese ship
ping.
Montenegro troops have crossed the
Bosnian frontier and occupied the
town of Tohainitza after a fierce bat
tie. They are ais ocredited with cap
turing eight Austrian blockhouses and
several villages.
The German emperor, the crown
prince, and two other imperial princes
are at the great fortress of Mainz.
The emperor's departure from Berlin
for the front has evoked enthusiasm
in the German capital.
That the Germans are forcing their
way through Belgium is indicated by
the Brussels report that German cav
airy is approaching the Belgian cap
ital; that measures for the defense of
Brussels are being FASTENED and that
the seal of government has been re-
moved to Antwerp.
WEDNESDAY.
There are rumors of a naval engage
ment about 100 miles off Harwich in
the North sea.
A Rome dispatch gives a report from
Vienna that the Austrian cruiser Zen.
ia has been sunk.