The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-03-12
war SUMMARY
PROGRESS OF CONDITIONS AS
COMPILED BY THE ASSO-
GATED PRESS.

New 1OThs MhTCl
The northern part of the line which
constitutes the battle front in France
and Belgium has e heavy fighting.
according TO the latest French official
statement. Newport has been vio-
lently bombarded. but the district be-
tween the River Lys and La Bassee
canal has witnessed a violent engage
ment between the British infantry,
supported by French artillery. and
the German troops.
The British have carried what the
French declare to be a strategic po-
sition in capturing the village of
Neuve Chapelle, and they have made
advances in the direction of Aubers.
to the northeast of La Bassee. and
also to the southeast. The German
losses are reported to have been very
heavy, 1000 Germans being taken
prisoners.
The statement declares that sew
eral fierce counter attacks by the
Germans in the Champagne region
were repulsed without the gain of an
inch of ground.
The Germans. however seem to be
well satisfied with what they have
been doing in this particular region
and officially estimate that the
French losses have been at least
three times as heavy as the German
losses. numbering about $4,000.
In the eastern war zone. partieu-
larry in northern Poland l.. the Ger
mans are attacking in large force.
In other sections of Poland engage
ments are proceeding, while in the
Il Carpathians the Austrians are follow
ing the German example and are driv-
ing with full strength against the
Russian forces along the front from
Gerlice to the UZsok pass.
One of the most interesting incl
dents of the wal from an interna-
tional standpoint is the arrival al
Newport News of the German auxil-
larry cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich
This raider of the seas had been de.
~stroying commerce in the Pacific and
Atlantic oceans and on January Is
SEN TO the bottom an American sail
ing vessel, the William p. Frye
bound from Seattle for Queenstown
with a cargo of wheat.
The Eitel Friedrich has on board
many persons who were taken off the
vessels that she sank and she came
into port for repairs. The sinking Of
the American ship is to be investigat'
ed, the Germans holding that hel
cargo of wheat was contraband Of
, war.
Another German submarine ha:
been remmed. this time by a British
, torpedo boat destroyer. The Ill:
/ was sunk, but ten of her crew Of
twenty-eight were saved.
A report reaching Berlin from Rot
terdam says that the British collier
: Beethoven has been sunk at some
/ place not stated, either by a torpedo
: or a mine.
The new Greek cabinet which has
: taken office stands for neutrality in
I the war. The ministerial declaration
| asserts that 1.-The observance of neu
trality by Greece was imperative
) from the very beginning of the Euro
: pean crisis.
An Australian contingent has ar
!. rived in England for service il
; France and Belgium.
The German reichstag, after a one
day session, has recessed to March IL
: to give the committee time~to arrang,
I work. The budget. which, according
to the secretary of the treasury, bal
, ances at 1890, 900. 00O-four time
greater than any estimates ever pre-
sented-will be considered at thi
session.
r According to a Swiss newspaper
4 Budapest deputies have signed a dec
: laration to the Hungarian govern
: ment to the effect that Hungary's sit
Z uation politically and economically
desperate, and that half of her arm,
has been destroyed.