The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-05-21
Latest News From the Front.


don, Paris and PetrOgrad have been
instructed to learn the attitude Of
the powers, which, like the United
States, are pledged to maintain the
territorial status quo in China and the
freedom Of commercial opportunity,
Inasmuch as Japan and Germany are
at war, the latter country was not con,
suited at this time.
The japanese government has an,
nounced that all naval and military
movements begun in connection with
her demands on China have been can,
celed,
Consular reports from all parts Of
the country announce the departure
Of japanese, or their concentration at
the Japanese consulates.
A Japanese cruiser and four tor.
pedo boat destroyers have arrived at
Chin-Wang-Tao, on the Gulf of Lao,
Tung, about $50 miles east of Pekin,
evidently for the purpose Of removing
from China the members Of the Jap,
anese legation.
In the fighting that is in progress
along the battle lines in Belgium and
France and in Russia, in the Carpa,
thians, both the triple entente and
Teutonic allies claim successes at va.
rious isolated spots. None of them.
however, except by Austria and Ger,
many, record successes on a great
scale. Even the statements of the
Teutonic allies are Teiterations of re.
ports of several days past that the
Russians continue to be pressed back
in GaiCia and the Carpathians, and
that Hungary is free of enemy forces,
Petrograd does not deny the gains
claimed by the Teutons, but declares
that the Russians are fighting back
hard at certain points, and that the
attacks of the Teutons, while undi,
minished in vigor, are becoming less
frequent.
On the western line Berlin declares
that the Germans have driven the al,
lies out of strongly fortified positions
near Ypres and that they have cap,
tured several villages in Flanders.
Sir John French, the British comman,
der in chief, takes issue with this
statement aud says all Germany's at,
tacks have been repuIsed with heavy
losses and that the British line is firm,
ly established. A repulse of the Ger,
mans near Newport, the capture OF
lines Of trenches over front of four
and one-third miles, near Carency, and
the taking Of a front about two and
half miles in width further east are
chronicled by Paris.
Newspaper dispatches from Switzer,
land to Paris report Austrians and
Germans fleeing from all parts OF
Italy. A Geneva dispatch asserts
that 100000 Italians have been cOncen,
trated at Verona, twenty-five miles
from the Austro-Hungarian frontier.
Field Marshal Sir John French. the
British commander in chief. has adj
mitted that he was compelled to. re
adjust his lines in the region Of Ypres
but the French communication, fan
from confirming a German victory in
Belgium, states that the German at
tacKs were repulsed and that the Ger
mans, being taken on the flank BY
French artillery, suffered very severe
j ~.
/ A late report from the British was
office also says that German attacks
were repulsed, although the Germans
used asphyxiating gases and did gel
a footing by the use of these fumes
on Hill No. 60, southeast of Ypres
which, since the British captured il
recently, has been repeatedly attack
/ ed.
There mas been fighting all alons
the rest of the western front, in al
of which the Germans claim to have
been successful. The French, how
ever, have another story to tell. The,
insist that their advance continues
both along the User canal in Flanders
and in Woevre, where battles have
be continuous for weeks on end.
From the east again comes the re
port of fighting, which because of it
sanguinary character and the conse
quent heavy losses gives that section
of the great war zones the chief plac,
in the war news of the day. Thi
| time it is the Turkish allies of tn,
| Teutonic contenders who are said t
have been the loser. They are de
clared by Petrograd to have beel
completely defeated by the Russian
in the Khori-Dilman region OF TIL
Caucasus, leaving more than $50
dead on the field and their survivor
to be fleeing before the Muscovites