Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-05-04
EIGHT THOUSAND PRISON
ERS TAKEN AND RUSSIAN
ADVANCE TEMPORARILY
CHECKED,
Berlin Wild vita JOY
American Tanker Torpedoed OF
Scilly Islands; Labor Troubles
in England.
ESTABLISH MARTIAL LAW,

o'9oA'oF WAN I%L LAW.
Paris, May "a Rome dispatch
says the Italian cabinet issued a
decree placing TripoIi under mar
taI law, owning to an attack on
the italian troops by rebels near
Syria last week. The minister
also considered the international
political situation and decided, in
view Of the present conditions af-
fecting Italy, no member Of the =
cabinet should leave Rome.
London. May 3-Accordns to off,
cial statements of both of Berlin and
| Vienna. the German, and Austrian
armies have achieved notable vic
tory in West Galcia. smashing the en-
tire Russian center along the front
of many miles, or, as Berlin says,
across the whole western tip of Gall.
ca from near he Hungarian border
to point where the river, Dunajec'
joins the Nistula, Oh the frontier of
| Poland
Temporary Check.
Though 5000 prisoners taken does
not compare with tho number some
of Won Hindenburg's rushes netted
him in the north, the achievement will
mean at least temporary check to
the Russians who have been hammer
ing away westward since the fall OF
przelnlysl. England and France claim
no gains in the west and the British
says the German attacks on HILL Sixty
in Flanders have been beaten back.
Germans Forging Ahead.
| The Germans maintain they are
pushing forward to northwest of
Ypres and toward St. Julien village,
which they captured In the fighting
in the Baltic provinces also Berlin
finds cause to rejoice, rejecting the
Russian contention that it is only
sporadic cavalry raid, and he Berlin
wireless says it seriously threatens
the Russian right. The fact that the
troops could be moved so far north
east before they encountered desist-
ance is considered reflection of the
Russian intelligence system.
An Austro- German Day.
So far as claims 60, it was an Aus
tro-German day A number of vessels.
neutral and otherwise, fell victims to
German submarines, Norway being
particularly a heavy loser. ....#
Torpedo American Boat
The American tanker, Gulfiict of
1000 tons, from Port Arthur, Tex,
for Ruen, was torpedoed and sunk off
Sclly Islands Saturday, according to
a Central News dispatch. The cap
tain and two sailors lost their lives,
the others being saved.
The Austrian official statement is.
sued late today confirms the German
reports of a big Austro-German vic
tory along the entire front in West
Galicia. and says 5000 Russians were
captured.
ed in constructing house to accommo
date the workers in the Woolwich ar
senal. the largest in England, and
went on a strike demanding higher
wages.
reports of great victory in the
Carpathans today led the entire city
of Berlin to deck itself with flags. The
Central telephone stations of the
newspaper Offices were besieged by
crowds seeking detail.
A Montenegrin statement says:
"The Austrians are showing renewed
activity along the entire Montenegrin
front, but we have repulsed all their
assaults. a.s
Three Norwegian steamers were
victims of German submarines. The
Lai;a was sunk Friday, the America
was torpedoed Saturday and the Bald
win was sunk Sunday. The members
and all Of the crew escaped.
The crew and five men of the Swed-
ish Schooner, Elsa, have been landed
here They say their vessel was de.
stroyed by German submarine Sun.
day. "