Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1915-08-18
Late War News
What Is Doing Across the Sea in ths way
Of Destroying Men and Property

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Of Destroying Mea and Property
August 15.--All along the east.
ern front the 3ermanic armies,
according to Berlin, again are in
full swing against the Russians,
who everywhere have been driven
back OF rspulsed in attempts at
sorties.
Little important fighting is in
progress exceps in the east, al
though there has been q hand to-
hand engagement nea, Bagatslle,
France, a resumption of the bonn
bArdment Of Belgrade, a counter
artillery sttacd by the Serl ials
against Semlin and Pauscova, and
battling on Gallipoli peninsula
and in Asiatic Turkey with the
Turks claiming the advantage i'll
the former region against the al
lies, and the Russians asserting
that in the latter zoLe the Os,-
man forces have been defeated.
On the Austro italian front nc
decided gains for either side are
chronicled
IL the northwea region Of Rus.
sis the Germans are declared to
have resumed the offensive and
forced the Russisns back to the
northeast An attempt at a sortle
from Kovuo failed.
In P,>land a fresh advance
nostheast of Wsrsaw between the
Narew and the Bug has been made
by the Tsutons according to Bar
An. Novogeorviesk has been
more closely surrounded and
ground has been gained all along
the fronts in the southeastern
districts say these reports.
Consssntlnople reports that
attacks of the allies against their
right wing near Air Burnu, Oh
AalIlpoli Peninsula were p u
down, and that the Turkish ar
tillery shells dlrseted against An
aforte plain and Seddul Bahr
forced Q retirement of the allies
from the former place aud de-
stroyed their bomb.throwipg de-
vices on the latter sector.
Fires we're started by the shells
of the Serbians in their lombard
ment Of Semlin and Panscova,
according to Nsh
Aug. 16 With military op.
srstions proceeding virtually as
for days past, the political side
of the war again has risen to the
fore with announcements that the
Quadruple Entente allies have
decided to declare cotton contra
band, and that the party of the
former Greek Prsmier, NJ. Veni.
zelcs, whose cabinet resigned last
March when King Constantine
disapproved of his policy in favor
of the Entente allies, again is in
power. For We eks there has been
. campaign in Great Britain to
put cotton on the contraband list
and Washington learns authl RI
tatively that Great Britain,
France, Russia, Italy and Belgium
have agreed to take that step.
She declared the staple as con.
traband will, it ls said, be defend.
ed by the allies as authorized by
international law.
The newly elected Greek Cham
ber of Deputies has chosen for it's
presiding officer, M. ZAvitzanos,
IA adherent of M. Venlzelos, and
the cabinet of M. Gounaris has
resigued. The meager announce.
msnt of the changed political con
ditions in Greece contains no in
timation as to how Venizelos now
Glands with regard to this couL-
try's position III the war. The
Athens correspondent of a Berlin
newspaper assorts, however, that
Veniselos still believes the intel
ests Of Greece lie on the side of
the Entente allies but that it is
not yet time for her to join them
actively.
Petrograd again asserts that the
Russians in Ccurland have driven
back the Germans, and also re-
pulsed German counter offensive
movements. In Poland, however,
the reports of the leutonio allies
indicate that their forces almost
everywhere still are advancing.
Artillery engagements are the