The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-06-10
WAR SUMMARY
PROGRESS OF CONDITIONS AS
COMPLIED BY THE ASSO-
GATED PRESS.

New York. June 10.-Special:
With the completion OF the note
which is to be dispatched by the
American government to the German
government, William Jennings Bryan
resigned his office as secretary Of
state.
In his letter Of resignation Mr..
Bryan declared hat the president
had prepared for transmission TO
Germany a note "in which | cannot
join without violating what / deem
to be an obligation to my country,
and the issue involved is OF such mo-
ment that to remain a member of the
cabinet would be as unfair TO you as
it would be to the cause which is
nearest my heart, namely, the pre-
vention of war"
In accepting the resignation of the
secretary of state President Wilson
said: we are not separated in the
object we seek, but in the method by
which we seek it,"
Although there has been heavy
fighting at various points along the
western line it is still in the east that
the great conflict continues. Here in
the Galician sector the Austro-Hun-
garians are keeping up their drives
of the Russians eastward. Advanc-
ing from Przemysl, the German gen
eral, Won Linsingen's forces now have
reached Lubaczow, which lies forty
miles northwest of the recaptured
Austrian fortress, while other Teuton
armies have made additional ad-
vances south of the Dneister and
along the Pruth.
AS to the fighting on the western
line, Paris and Berlin in their official
statement are at variance. Only
slight gains, however, are claimed by
either combatant. Positions captured
from the Germans in the region of
Notre Dame de Lorette have been
consolidated, additional houses occit-
pied by the Germans at Melville st.
WAIST have been captured, aud a gain
along a front Of about 1900 meters
has been made to the south OF Sebu-
irene. according to Paris.
Berlin asserts that an allied attack
on the southern slope Of the Loretta
hills failed; that another offensive
south of Melville was checked by
German artillery, and that in the re
gion east of Hebuterne the fighting
continues. In addition the Germans
say that to the northwest of Berry
au-Bae, the allies suffered heavy
losses in an unsuccessful attempt to
reeapture the position which they lost
to the Germans last May.
There is little known of the situa-
] 49,, aV1,~ FI1 A,yrf~n TfoTfop fran
tier. Vienna, in reporting the repulse
with heavy losses of isolated attacks
by the Italians near Gradisca and
Gredo. says hat the Italians are ap-
~parently preparing for the general at
tack along the Isonzo river.
Aircraft have been unusually ac-
tive. An Austrian aeroplane has at
tackled and destroyed an Italian dirig-
able airship and another Austrian
heavier than air machine has dropped
bombs on Venice, on a balloon shed
at Murano, near Venice, and on an
Italian torpedo boat destroyer.
Sir John French, the British com
mander in chief, reports that the
British have brought down two Ger
man a~eroplanes on the western line,
while Berlin asserts that the Germans
have shot down an allied aircraft
near Berry-au-Bac.
Reginald A. j. Warneford, the Ca
madam flyer who destroyed a Zeppe-
lin near Client, has been compliment
ed by King George for his daring
feat and awarded the Victoria cross,
Great Britain's highest award obtain
able for valor.