The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-08-05
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One thousand volunteers going to
Italy to serve in the army were pas
sengers on board the steamship Dante
Alighieri, sailing from New York
Wednesday for Naples and Genoa.
Extraordinary activity, in which the
allies are taking the offensive, has
been renewed along the Belgian coast.
According to dispatch from Amster-
dam, French warship has lombard
ed Zeebrugge, the German submarine
base.
The Russians are delivering strong
counter-attacks with great forces on
practically every important front in
the eastern theater, and the German
gains, despite the arrival of large re-
endorsements of men and material,
have been small, says a London ca
blegram.
According to a London dispatch
Wednesday,, German submarines,
swarming British waters in a renewed
campaign to sweep ships bearing food
and supplies to England from the seas,
have sunk IS vessels within the last
two days.
While the battles from the Baltic
provinces to Galicia continue with
undated fury, the Austro-Germans
have been able to make little progress
in the past twenty-four hours, says a
London Dispatch At many points the
Russians have turned, and by means
of counter-attacks are keeping the
Germans busily engaged in holding
the positions they have gained.
BY the conquest of system OF
strongly fortified German hilltop
trenches which overlooked the posi-
ton of the French on the slopes of
the ridge stretching from Lingskopf
to Barrenkopf in the Vosges, the
French dominate the principal valley
of the Fecht, according to a Lon
don cable
A dispatch from Villach, transmit
ted via Laibach and Geneva, states
that Italian troops have captured two
miles of the Notifications around Cor
itz and are encircling the city after
driving the Austrian defenders beyond
~, hid
The destruction Of the American
steamer LeelanaW, which was torpe
doed by German submarine while
en- route from Archangel to Belfast, is
viewed in Washington as violation
Of sacred treaty obligations imposed
upon the German government by ex-
listing treaty stipulations between
the United States and Prussia.
Within 48 hours after the German
foreign Office had received President
Wilson's latest note on submarine
warfare, says a London dispatch, a
German undersea boat torpedoed and
sank the American steamer Leelanaw
OFF the coast of Scotland. Her crew
was landed at Kirkwall, Scotland.
The total casualties suffered by the
Canadian expeditionary force in Eu
rope was officially announced at Of
tawa as 10.380, divided as follows:
Killed, 1922; wounded, 6,641; missing,
1,917
Monte San Michele is now almost
entirely evacuated by the Austrians
and occupied by strong lines of 1tal-
ian infantry, according to Milan re-
port. The Italian batteries now can
command nearly all the Austrian lines
of communication behind Goritz
Five thousand dollars each, for the
first ten dirigible balloons destroyed,
while in the air, is the prize offered to
the British airmen by Baron Michel
ham Of London.
Domestic
All beverages containing any pro-.
portion of alcohol will be refused
shipment into Arizona by an agree
ment of all railroads entering the