The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-07-30
Washington Believes Ger
man-Austrian Proceeded Ac-
cOrding to International Law.
ENGLAND IN NOTE
COPIES THE KAISER
Takes Stand Germany Did
In Answer to Uncle
Sam.
WARSAW is BOMBARDED
German Shells Fall on Top of
Capitol as they March
Nearer.

Washington. July 26-The State De-
partment was officially advised of the
torpedOing of the American steamship
Leelanaw by 4 German submarine off
Scotland coast, in a dispatch from
Consul Dennison at Dundee. 1t said
that all the crew were safely landed.
The Leelanaw was flax laden. Meager
information indicates that the German
submarine probably proceeded against
the American vessel according to In
ternational law.
Washington, July 26-The formal
reply of Great Britain to the Ameri-
can note of March 80, which declared
against the British blockade and the
principle of retaliation, has been re-
ceived at the State Department 1t
creates as much of an Anglo-Ameri-
can impasse as has been created be-
tween Germany and the United States
on the same subject. Great Britain
takes practically the same attitude as
that maintained by Germany. The re-
ply declares that new principles diff
fering from those announced by the
United States, must be applied to the
character of warfare being waged by
Germany against England.
London, July 26-The Germans
have forced another passage of Narew
north of Ostrolenka and are now
pressing forward on the 40-mile front
toward the Russian second line de-
lenses on Bug, 25 miles from War
saw.
London, July ga dispatch from
Petrograd to Reuters Telegram Co.
today says:
"a German air raid on the Vistu'a
bridge at Warsaw failed of its object,
though the bombs caused several cas-
ualties among the civilians"
Berlin, via London, July 26-Fu"-
Their German advances on the Russian
front are recorded in today's staze-
ment from the War Office:
"North of the River Niemen the ar
nv under Gen Won BuelOw has reach
ed the district of Poswol and Ponic-
WITT. Wherever the enemy has offer
ed resistance he has been beaten. We
captured over 1000 prisoners.
"The towns of Poswol and Ponic-
WITT are about 40 miles to the east and
southeast, respectively, of the Shawl,
in Russian province of KOvnO, and
about IS miles west Of the Petrograd
railway which supplies Warsaw.
con the Narew front our troops
forced crossing of the river. Fur
thermore, both above and below OstrO-
lenka, our troops are slowly pushing
the enemy back in the direction of the
River Bug. Tie Russians are offer
ing obstinate resistance to these adj
vances. Here also we captured about
1000 Russians and more than 40 ma
chine guns. On the northwest front
our troops are advancing toward the
group of Notifications around Novo
Georgiecsk and Warsaw.
an the southeastern theater of war,
north of Wcjslawice and south of
Chelm on the River Bug, German
troops in the recent fighting pushed
the enemy still further back. 1ester-
day we captured here II officers, 1457
men and II machine guns"
Lonodn, July 26-The German adj
vance from the Narew River now is "a
miles as a crow flies from the War
saw Petrograd main railroad, but the
Germans still have to fight their way
across the Bug River, as we'll as over
Is miles of virtually roadless country
between the Narew and the Bug.
"The fate of Warsaw really depends
on the Bug River" says a Petrograd
dispatch, (which is a much more form
liable obstacle than is the Narew, the
crossing of which by the Germans was
facilitated by an islet in mid-river
near the confluence of the Orjitza
River"