The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1915-05-15
PROGRESS OF THE WAR
From SUNDAYS salt Lake Tribune

tivities in the North sea and British
waters on May /, after a lull of
several days. On that date the Brit
ish torpedo destroyer Recruit was
sunk by a submarine and only four
officers and q men were saved. A
few hours later two German torpedo
boats attacked a fleet of British
trawlers and sank several. British
destroyers appeared and gave chase
to the little warships. which were
sunk an hour later. Two officers
and Al men were rescued and made
prisoners of war.
The American oil tank steamer
Gulfight was torpedoed by a Ger
man submarine off Bishops light
house, Scilly islands. at noon May l..
The vessel was badly damaged and
was towed into port. The captain
died of heart disease a few minutes
after the explosion and two sailors
who leaped into the sea were drowned
The three were Americans. r
Four or five English steamers of
1900, 1000 or 5000 tons were sunk
and finally the great liner Lusitania.
with 2l00 persons aboard, many Of
them women and children, vas tor
pedoed by aGerman submarine with
out warning off the southeast coast
of Ireland. The vessel sank in 10
minutes and more than 1900 persons
were drowned. more than 100 of them
Americans.
In addition to the vessels already
named, submarines sank manv Eng
lish trawlers and a number of vessels
belonging to neutrals.
An English destroyer, while cruis-
ing along the coast of Belgium near
Zeebrugge. was sunk by a mine.
On land the most important opera
tons were those in western Galicia.
The Austro-G German forces advancing
from Cracow pushed the Russians
out of heavily fortified trenches along
the Dunajec river and in the Car.
pathians. Later the Germanic allies
captured Tarnow, which the Russians
had turned into a fortress, and con-
tinued to advance. capturing 10000
prisoners and many guns. Up tc
date the Russians have been unable
to check the advance and their posi-
ton in the Carpathians is threatened
During the week the Germans in
vaded the Baltic provinces of Russia
and have taken the seaport of Libau,
|, which is a large industrial city. This
will permit the Germans to harass
the Russian communications between
Petrograd and the armies in the
field.
By means of asphyxiating gases the
Germans recaptured hill No. 60,
which was taken from them by the
British several weeks ago. The Brit
ish claim to have retaken some of
the trenches. Fighting has been in
progress in the vicinity of Ypres,
near which hill No. 60 is located. for
more than a week with varying sue.
cesses. For the most part, however,
the Germans have been victorious
and have smashed the apex of the
British salient east of Ypres.
The French claim to have located
the great piece of artillery which the
Germans used to lombard Dunkirk
and to have destroyed it. Its range
was about % miles.
General Botha reports a victorious
advance of the British troops in
southwest Africa. They were con.
siderably hampered by the fact that
J the Germans had poisoned the wells
IN r~etreating.
3 The Russians assert that they have
defeated the Turks who invaded
: Persian territory, and have driver
them back into Turkish territory
They also report that they found
many evidences of a slaughter Of
Christians by the Kurds and Turks
The operations against the Oar
danelles are proceeding slowly. From
Tenedos it is reported that the allied
ships have silenced the Turkish bat
teries as far as the fortress of Ma
I CARA. This is probably an exaggera,
ton, for if this much has been accom-
! plished the French and English are
making extraordinarily rapid pro-
gress against most powerful fortifica.