The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-08-20
A GENERAL SURVEY or
The WAR.

Thursday, Aug. PIT is reported
that Won Hindenburg has taken per-
sOnal charge of the operations in this
! northern region, and that the Ger
mans have occupied a point on the
acknowledgement railroad south Of
Ostrow. Practically the whole of the
Narew front has now given way. Os-
SOwiec and NOvo Georgievski have not
been occupied, but the former is being
battered by the TeutOn guns and the
later is invested and must yield before
long.
The crown princes bombardment of
positions west of Verdun in the Ar
come continues with great intensity
The Germans penetrated the French
front between the Binarville road and
the ravine of Houyette. They were
dislodged, says Paris, except in one
section of the first-line trenches.
The Gallipoli campaign is being
pushed with vigor The landing of So
900 additional troops has given it i'm
petus, and it is reported the British
colonial troops in the Gaba Tepe sec
tor have made an advance trebling the
area previously held.
On the Italian front the fighting con-
tinues without important develop
ments.
Friday, Aug. 13.-Petrograd claims
that German attempts to overwhelm
Russian advance guards south of Riga
were repulsed; that progress was made
by the cars troops in the direction
Of Jacobstadt and Dvinsk, and that
near Kovno the enemy assaults were
beaten down except at one point,
where vigorous artillery battle con-
tinues.
South of the Niemen Berlin reports
the repulse of counter attacks. At NOvo
Georgievsk there is nothing new"
The Town of Lukow, about seventeen
miles south of Siedlce, was occupied
by the Bavarians. The Russians are
thus being driven back on Brest.
On the western front the Germans
claim the capture of group of forti-
fed positions in the Argonne, west of
Verdun. Elsewhere things are compar-
atiyely quiet.
A terrific battle in the clouds is re.
ported to have taken place on the
Trentino front. The Austrians attacked
through two mountain passes at a
height of 10000 feet above the sea.
They were repulsed after a bloody en-
counter
Saturday, Aug. 14.-Russian re-
sistance in the region south of Riga
and west of Kovno is proving effec-
tive Whatever may be the ultimate
plan Of Won Hindenburg, he is making
slow Roadway
To the northeast of Kovno, on the
road to Dvinsk,and between Vilkomir
and Ponewesk, the Russians claim
that they have broken the German
front, separating the forces operating
near Vilkomir from those at Ponewesh
The most notable German success re-
ported from the eastern front is the
occupation of Siedlce, which gives the
Teutons control Of important railroad
lines, one of which runs east from
Warsaw, and another south from Os-
trolenskt
On the western and Italian fronts
there is news of any significant ac-
tivities
Sunday, Aug. 15-The Russian fort
ress Ostrolenka is in the hands of the
Teutonic army. 1t is reported from
Berlin that the grand dukes forces
still hold Ossowec, to the north. Gen
eral Won Eindenburg's troops, attack
ing the fortress of Kovno have storm
ed and captured the fortified forest of
Dominikanka, in front Of Kavno.
Following a furious night attack in
the Argonne, which the French say
was repealed with heavy German loss
es, the Germans again bombarded the
allied lines. Berlin reports they made
new progress near Martinswerk,
position they wrested from the
French the previous day.
Italian artillerymen have begun bonn
harding the Notifications of Plezzo.
An Austrian battery has been silenced
and portions of the enemy's workings
demolished.