The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-04-16
A GENERAL SURVEY or
The WAR.


the Carpathian passes is proceeding
bitterly. Petrograd says the advance
in the Carpathians has cut the Aus
trian army under General Boeroyitch
in two places, placing the eastern
wing of this army in precarious posi-
ton. The capture of SmOlnik, east
Cf the LupkOw Pass, is also announced.
A report from the German war of
flee says all French attacks in the
plains of the Woevre, east and south
east of Verdun, have failed as did as
saults in the Combres hills.
Paris says the French continue
their gains in assaults on both sides
OF the German wedge at st. Mihiel.
An official communique gives details
of the gains made by the French since
April 4, showing that the total is forty
square miles.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Peters base received communication
from Captain Thierichen of the Ger
man cruiser Eitel stating his inten-
ton to intern
Friday, April 9.-With the Russian
force in possession of all the main
SUBMITS and slopes of the Beskid
mountains, army officers in Petrograd
assert that the Austrian operations in
the Carpathians have collapsed. The
Russian general staff is considering
the best approach into Hungary. Op-
perations centering about Nicola
borcz, including the important points
of Bartfield, Lupkow and UrsOk, ap-
pear virtually to have ended, with the
Austrians on the defensive along the
whole line and perceptily weakened.
The official communique from Paris
states the important position Of Les
Eparges which dominates the plains
Of the WOevre and which has been
stubbornly defended by the Germans
has been completely captured by the
French The maintainence of gains
further south in the ALLY woods and
the repulse of German attacks in the
Montmare woods in an attempt to re-
capture trenches taken the day befC,
Saturday, April 1o.--The French
bark Chateaubriand, bound from Lon
don for New York, was torpedOed and
sunk off the Isle of Wight. Captain
Grondin and her crew of twenty-four
men landed at LIE Treport, France six
teen miles northeast of Lieppe, after
drifting more than tWenty-fOur hours
ir severe weather. The submarine
commander allowed the captain and
crew ten minutes in which to leave
their vessel before he sunk it.
The German war Office statement
says the engagements between Il
Meuse and the Moselle continue wi
undiminished violence A severe de-
feat of the French between the River
Orne and the heights of the Meuse is
reported.
Figures received in Geneva purport-
ing to come from the Austrian general
staff place at $4,000 the losses in the
battle on the Dukla-Eperies front
Sunday, April 11.-Berlin in an of
fetal statement reporting operations
in the western theater claims the cap
ture Of three villages near Poesele,
south of Drei Grachten and the fail
ure of French attacks in the western
Argonne and in the forest region to
the north of the Combres Heights.
Concerning the eastern theater of war
the war Office says Russian attacks
near Mariampol and near Klimki on
the Skimwa were repulsed and the
routing of the Russians from a place
near Bromierez.
The French official communique
claims the capture of 800 meters of
trenches in the Argonne and the re-
pulse of German attacks on both banks
of the ANGER north of Albert. The
capture of trenches in the Montmara
woods by the Germans is admitted
Last of Germans sea raiders, the
Kronprinz Wilhelm, scourge swept,
her crew facing starvation, her bunk
ers empty, barred from New York har-
Dor by the perpetual guard OF British
cruisers, has sought sanctuary at
Newport News. Va. The auxiliary
cruiser has been at sea 255 days, dur
ing which time she sank fifteen mer-
chantmen.