Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-09-25
SUMMARY OF WAR
SUNDAY.

0ON1AI
The Russian official reports also say
that there has been no fighting on the
German frontier.
A report from the Autrian-Italian
frontier mrom Rome says that 3000,0 0C
Austrian troops are watching the Ital
ian border.
In the midst of heavy gales, the bat
tie between the allied forces and the
Germans in northern France contin'
ues apparently with undated fury.
after six days Of fighting.
The town Of Rheims has been under
bombardment for three days, the Ger
mans using their heavy guns from a
distance of three miles and pouring a
veritable rain of shells on the place,
which is one of the most historically
interesting cities of France.
MONDAY.
Interesting information has been Civ.
en- out of the British and
misfortunes in various waters.
Berlin officially announces that the
franco-British forces have been oblig-
ed to take the defensive, in entrenehed
position, and that, therefore, the re
suit of the German attacks are slow.
An official statement from Petro-
grad says that the Russians are bonn
bardlng the strong Austrian fortress
OF Przemyal. 1t also reports the re,
pulse of the Austrians with heavy
losses near Baranow and Ranichow in
Galicia.
Reports differ as to the of
the great battle in northern France
between the allied British and French
armies and the Germans. Some indi-
cate that there was extremely heavy
fighting, while others tell of the great
masses of troops lying in the flooded
trenches, many of them at the stage
of exhaustion.
In the fighting around Rheims the
matter of greatest interest has been
the destruction of the famous cathed-
raj, one of the most noted structures
in the world, dating back to the 18th
century, which is reported to have
first been pierced by German shells
and to have burst into flames. Against
this destruction of the cathedral the
French government has decided to
send protests through diplomatic chan
nels to all the powers.
TUESDAY.
The German emperor has taken up
his quarters in Luxembourg.
The French report that they have
made progress In the territory be-
tween Rheims and the Argonne forest.
The Montenegrin army is believed
to be close to Sarapavo, capital of Bos-
mia. The Montenegrin foreign office
learns that the Austrian army is in
retreat.
A Vladivostock dispatch says that
Japanese a%eroplanes have destroyed
with bombs two of the important forts
at Tsing-Tao, in the German protec-
torate of Kiao-Chow.
The nature of the struggle between
the Germans and the allied forces
on the battle front in France which
stretches from Noyon in the west TO
Verdun, is indicated by the latest of
ficial communication from the French
war office, which says that the en-
gagements have become less violent.
The casualty list shows that 797 Brit
ish officers are among the killed, the
wounded or missing, a high percent
age of the total losses. Among these
are 80 colonies and lieutenant colo
nels, IS majors and 246 captains. The
Soldstream Guards have lost 81 of
their officers, the highest on the list.
WEDNESDAY.
Another British casualty list shows
a large proportion of officers among
the killed, wounded or missing.
1t is reported that the French again
are ~bombarding the important Aus
trian seaport of Cattaro in Dalmatia.
Lord Kitchener, the British war min
lister, has approved the proposition for
the formation of a Welsh army corps.
The Russians are reported to have
taken the fortified town of ~Jaroslau,
on the San river, northwest of Pre-
mysl, from the Austrians.
Along the battle line in France re.
ports indicate that while the fighting
is still progressing, no great gains
have been made by either side.
In Africa the British repulsed a Ger.
man attack in their eastern territory,
the Germans ~retreating with losses.
Louis Botha, the famous Boef
general, has taken over supreme COM
mand of the British operations.
Fighting on land has given way for
the moment as a news factor to the
daring raid in the North sea by five
submarine boats which tor
pedoed and sunk three British armor-
ed cruisers, and in turn lost two of