New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-08-12
FRENCH AWATORS
DROP BOMBS ON
BAVARIAN TOWNS
Eight Persons Killed in Raid on
ZWiebruecken, TSank and
. b. Saint Ingbert

LUK0W AND ZAMBR0WO
TAKEN BY TEUTONS
Italians Repulse Austrian Attacks In
Catlcro and Claim Substantial Gain
in Seibusi Zone-French Repel
German Attacks on Western Front
Miles From Petrograd.
Berlin reports French airship raid
on Zweibruecken and Saint Ingbert
o. IN Rhcaish, Bavaria, to the northeast
of Nancy. in which eight persons wera
killed by the dropping Of bombs. The
property damage is said to have been
small. Saarbruccllen, in the same sec.
ton, was bombarded by French air.
ships last Monday.
-. Frequent Austrian attacks on Ital-
ian positions in Galore are reported
from Rome, which declares that the
italians have succeeded in holding :.ll
their recently taken positions.
Italians Claim Gain.
On the Carso Plateau the Italians
claim substantial gain in the Sci
bust zone, although admitting they
were unable to hold position on
strongly fortified heights we'll within
the Austrian lines which Italian in
fantry had captured in charge. In
Carnia small advances are recorded.
zaJn Of
has returned to Athens, where the
pronouncement of his policy, expected
to have an important bearing on tte |
Balkan situation, is being awaited. It |
is considered doubtful if this will be
made until after the opening of tho |
Greek parliament on August Is.
German Attacks Repulsed.
The Paris war office reports re-
neWal of German attacks In the Ar |
gonne, where the French lines were
penetrated at one point yesterday.
Last nights assaults are declared to-
have been completely repulsed.
French Bombard Bavarian Towns.
London, Aug II, 1918 p. ma
wireless despatch received here today
from Berlin, says that French avia-
tors dropped bombs on Zwiebruecken,
Tsank and Saint Ingbert, killing Or
wounding several civilians. The
property damage was small
Eight persons were killed by bombs
dropped from the aeroplanes.
The towns raided by French air
ships are in Rhenish Bavaria Zwei-
bruecken, which is in the Palatinate
is a manufacturing town of some
$4,000 inhabitants.
Saint Ingbert, is about 2 miles west
Of Zweimruecken and is near Saar-
bruecken, which was bombarded by
French aeroplanes on Monday.
#l Teutons Occupy Lukow
Berlin, Aug. IL, via London, ABS
p. m.-Austro-G German forces pur-
suing the Russians who are retreat
ing from the Warsaw salient have |
occupied Lukow, according to Of |
fetal announcement by the German !
army headquarters staff today. Fam |
browo also has been captured, the
statement adds.
800 Miles From Petroprad.
London, Aug. IL, 1887 p. m.-The
Baltic flank of the German armies
under Field Marshal Won linden
burg has virtually attained the banks
Dvinsk, with Petrograd less than 800
miles away in a direct line.
Thence southwark the line sweeps
west, with the Russian fortress of
Kovno till holding out, but next week
may see a great battle on the road
toward the Russian capital,
Petrograd Teutonic Goal.
The second line of defense upon
which the Russians proposed to fall
back after abandoning Warsaw has all
tho appearances of having been rem
dered untenable, and the British and
Russian press is beginning to see in
the utro-German plan an ambitious
plunge deeper into Russia with Petro-
grad the goal.
.#g In the meantime the Russian rear
guards are fighting desperately, es-
pecially in the critical Dvina region
and at Kovno, to capture which lat
ter place the Germans are making a
terrific sacrifice of men.
No Great Offensive in West.
1t seems plain now the Germans
purpose no great demonstration in the
west. but intend rather to press to the
utmost their so far brilliantly success
full Russian campaign on the theory
that conditions in France and Belgium
are such that neither the French nor
the British imm ediately will attempt
a general offensive.
During the lull in activity on the
front in France and Belgium the
British public are looking to the
Dardanelles to bring the relief Rus
STA so badly needs, though the task of
opening the traits remain problem,
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