The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-02-19
WAR SUMMARY
PROGRESS OF CONDITIONS AS
COMPILED BY THE ASSO-
GATED PRESS.

New 1OTk, II Gu. iJs-SpcCldi LIE
time limit set by Germany for neu-
trail shipping to take measures of
safety has expired, and Germany is
now expected to put into operation
her declared intention of employing
her submarines and mines in the wa
tiers around the British isles, which
she has proclaimed a war zone, with
the object of shutting off the food
supply of the British people.
Germany has earnestly warned the
neutral states that this ION will
hereafter be a danger zone for all
shipping, and has expressed her de-
termination Of taking the most strin-
gent action against the British mer-
chantmen.
1t is announced from Berlin that
Germany's reply to the American
note of protest against such action
has been handed to the American
ambassador at the German capital,
but this reply has not yet been re-
ceived by the state department at
Washington.
In the meantime Germany, in de-
veloping her submarine warfare, has
added one more merchant ship to the
list of vessels destroyed by sinking
the small French steamer Vile de
Regarding the operations on land,
it is apparent from the official an
n-ouncements issued by the French
war office that some heavy fighting is
taking place. both in Belgium and
France. The French claim not only
to have maintained the ground re-
Gently gained, but have captured
some of the German trenches and re-
PEELED many counter attacks by the
Germans.
French aviators have dropped
bombs on the railway station at Fret
burg, Baden.
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg's
successful operations against the
!, Russian army in East Prussia are
still being celebrated in Berlin, where
Won Hindenburg's direction of the
campaign is described as having been
characterized by mastery skill. Of
hcially ii is announced hat German
(. troops are still following the Rus
: slams north of the Niemen river.
In Poland, north of the Vistula,
: from Plock, recently occupied by the
: Germans to Racionz, another great
= battle in that region already being
: of a desperate nature.
Austria, according to Swiss ad-
/ vices, for ten days has been coneen-
trating troops, chiefly artillery, or
her Italian frontier. Guns have
been implaced to dominate the Tyro.
lese passes.
All along the entire boundary oi
Serbia Albanian forces are active
' Ochrida, 100 miles north OF Janina
has been captured by the Albanians
and violent fighting is in progress al
several places.
A Constantinople dispatch from
; Berlin says that the Bulgarian sea
port of Dedagatch, On the Aegean
sea. is blockaded by British and
French warships to prevent food
!, stuffs from being transported to Ger
many and Austria by this route.
Copenhagen hears a report thai
q 100000 Germans, ineligible fol-
army service, who have Independent
means. are to be ordered by the Ger
mar government to proceed to neu
e trail counties and there remain unit
the end of the war in order to de
crease the consumption of food in the
e empire.
A report from Basel, Switzerland
says that Emperor William, who has
invited Mr.. Gerard, the American
ambassador to Germany, to the Eas
e Prussian front, will personally apol
ogize to the American ambassador
for the demonstration made agains
; him recently in a Berlin theater
Basel gives a Berlin dispatch as thu
basis for this statement.
Great Britain, in her answer to thu
American protest against the deten
ton of American ships by British wal
vessels, denies that Great Britain I'm
duly detains ships or hat the nava
operations OF Great Britain have beer
the cause of any diminution in thu
. volume of American exports, adding
that If the commerce of the United
States is in the ~unfavorable condition
n charged in the American note "th'
cause ought, in fairness, to be sough