The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-11-20
A GENERAL SURVEY OF
THE WAR.

Thursday, Nov. 12.-Over the long
battle lines of Europe comparative
quiet prevailed today, except in Bel
GUM, where the conflict continues
border sharp fighting is in progress
and the Turks are in action against
the Russians, but on the main posi-
tions through France, along the East
PrGssian border and in Galicia there
is apparently lull.
Fighting continues with violence on
the western end of the line, Paris
said, but there are no indications
whether the Germans have succeeded
in extending their advance.
Friday, Nov. 13.-The high tide CT
battle on the Belgian field has passed.
according to information from T~2nch
official sources, and German M at
has failed as yet to win wa. 20 Tie
English channel. The statement from
the French war office announces that
the fighting from the French border
violent.
Ir Berlin was received a dispatch
from Vienna, which while asserting
that Austrian operations in the north
east were developing without him
d1ance from the enemy" also contain
ed the admission that central Galicia
had been evacuated by the Austrians
Vienna admits that the Russians
have crossed the Vistula and occupied
Rzeszow, which lies on the line of the
Russian advance toward Cracow.
III the Stry Valley, east of Przemysl,
however. Russian defeat is reported
by Vienna.
Destruction of a German submarine
is reported unofficially from Dun
kerque. A French torpedo boat, at
tackled bv the submarine, is said to
have run it down.
Saturday, Nov. 14.-The British SUI
perdreadnaught Audacious. a 25.0C0-
ton first line battleship, commissioned
in 1912, was sunk in the Irish sea by
mine. She carried ten 13.5-inch guns.
Ali Of the crew were saved.
Bad weather and exhaustion has
caused slackening of the fighting be-
tween the Ypres and the sea. The
crack Prussian guards were thrown
back with terrific losse in one furious
attack on the British positions about
Ypres.
Paris reports the allies north Of
Ypres have advanced and retaken Dix,
nude
The Turks are reported to have in
vaded the Russian territory of eau
casia and occupied the Russian bar
racks of Kurdabhln.
Sunday, Nov. 15.-Berlin reports
that the German right wing in Bel
GUM made slight progress and that
the Germans in the Argonne captured
a strong French position.
Paris says the Germans were driven
from the only position they held on
the left bank of the User river. The
only important battles anywhere on
the whole front between the North
Sea and Alsace in two days took place
in the small area of conflict in Bel
gium where the Germans appear to
be risking their whole campaign in
the west by the effort to tear a hole
in the allied line that would let them
through to the French coast.
The death of Field Marshal Roberts
in France from pneumonia has Great
ed much sadness throughout England.
Reports from Petrograd say the
Russ are advancing along the entire
line from Eastern Prussia to Galicia.
The official communique reports an
engagement with the Germans for the
outlet of the lake region. the capture
of German howitzers near Soldau and
the retreat of the Germans from Ry-
pin.
An official statment from Petrograd
says that the Russian troops are adj
yancing rapidly toward Danzig, which
is their objective point in the cam
paign in East Prussia. The Austrian
army continues its retreat toward era
COW