The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-11-21
war SUMMARY
PROGRESS OF CONDITIONS COM
PILED BY THE ASSO-
GATED PRESS.

New York, Nov. 21.-Special:
Only meager reports are at hand
from any of the scenes of hostilities.
1t seems probable that the most Sc
we're contest for supremacy is pro-
ceeding in the western strip of Po-
land, with its northern and southern
boundaries respectively the Vistula
and Wartha rivers, and its western
front the border Of Posen.
Particularly quiet is the descrlp-
ton of the operations in the western
zone given by the French war office,
although the usual artillery duels
and attacks by infantry at various
places were in progress. Tracy Lee
val, a short distance to the northeast
of Paris and at the crook of the ell
bow of the western battle front, was
the scene of the principal infantry
attacks. Here the French reported
they held back a German attempt to
capture the town. inficting heavy
casualties.
AS for the east, Petrograd has ad-
mitted a big reverse in Poland-a
reverse in which the Russian armies
have been pushed back at least fifty
miles from the German border to-
ward Warsaw-but Berlin remains
reticent concerning the operations.
I'm the eastern theater of the war
the newly commenced battles are
proceeding" is all the German war
office has had TO say. A semioffcial
Berlin report says: Reasons oil
strategy" prevent disclosure of the
troop movements.
That these battles are proceed
ing" however, is taken to mean that
the Germans are still pressing
against the Russians in an endeayor
to drive them back eastward to War
saw over the same territory in which
only a short time ago the Russians
held the whip hand and forced the
Germans westward before them from
the Polish capital.
Along the East Prussian border
the Muscovites claim they are press
ing forward continuously and making
inroads into German territory. Here
also Germans make no claim.
With regard to the operations
southwark in Galicia and in southern
Russian Poland the Russians, accord
ing to unofficial reports, are follow
ing up previous successes against
the Austrians. On the other hand a
news agency dispatch from Vienna
of guns.
declares the Austrians have captured
1000 prisoners and a large number
A battle has taken place off Sebas-
topol in the Black sea between Rus
sian and Turkish warships. As to
its results the reports are not clear.
Constaninople makes no mentiop of
clashes between the Turks and Rus
slams.
The British have been successful
again in an attack on a Turkish po-
sition. The force operating on the
Shat-El-Arab river and the Persian
gulf drove from their trenches an OF
toman force and captured a number
of prisoners, guns and a quantity of
ammunition. The British, however,
lost three officers and thirty-fiye men
killed in the attack. The Turkish
casualties were not stated.
From the British general head
quarters at the front comes a fur
Their account of the fighting along
the British lines covering the period
from Nov. 13 to 16. In this recital
ii is declared that the situation so
far as it relates to the British has
not altered in that time.
The engagements consisted for the
most part of Smelling at long range,
and the violent German attacks, pre-
viously so persistent, had not been
resumed.