The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1915-05-29
PROGRESS OF THE WAR


made formal declaration of war.
The curtain of censorship has fallen
upon Italy and what steps she is TAX
ing to inaugurate the war against
Austria probably will remain more
or less of mystery for several days.
1t is limited that the port of Avlona,
in Albania, may be used as base for
an expeditionary army which would
move to the aid of the Montenegrins
and Servians. The danger of such a
move is that the Austrian submarines
might interfere seriously with trans
portation across the Adriatic. In
this way Italy would be in somewhat
the same situation as is Great Britain.
Like the English. the Italians have
control of the sea where operations
are necessary, but this control is
modified to a greater or lesser extent
by the submarine.
Whether any actual blow has been
struck by either Austria or Italy is
uncertain. King Victor has ordered
the mobilization of Italy's forces on
land and sea, but there has been no
declaration of war.
The Austro-German advance in
Galicia has now taken General Mack
ensen's forces across the San river
north of Przemysl. Meantime the
Germanic Allies have conquered Rus
sian positions to the southeast of
that town. Przemysl is almost, if
not quite, isolated by this time.
Whether the Russians will be able to
stop the onrushing foe is uncertain,
but lack of supplies and ammunition
presage further reverses for the
Cars armies in this region. One of
the Cars armies appears to have
achieved definite success. In
Buckowina the Austrians have re-
treated as far as Kolomea and per-
haps even west of that city. This
opens up the right flank of the Teu-
tonic forces to attack southwest of
Stanislau.
In the province of Courland the
Russians seem to have checked the
German advance toward Riga and to
be keeping them away from the rail-
road running from St. Petersburg to
Warsaw. Once across this railroad
the Germans would be in possession
of one of Russia's most important
lines of communication.
In the western theater the French
and English have attained some sue
cess. The French have driven the
Germans back across the User canal
at Steenstraete and the English have
gained several miles of trenches
southwest of Richebour-P PAvoue and
northwest of Festubert.
The English are handicapped by
lack of proper ammunition. They
have plenty of shrapnel, but high ex-
plosives which will destroy parapets
and cut a way through barb wire en-
tanglements are lacking. This situ-
alton has had powerful reflex ac-
tion in Great Britain, where it has
helped to bring on cabinet crisis.
The differences between the first lord
of the admiralty, Winston Churchill,
and the first sea lord, Admiral FISH
er, were brought to head when
Fisher resigned. This so weakened
the cabinet that a coalition with the
opposition parties was proposed and
Premier Asquith consented. Then
Lord Kitchener was made the target
for attack by the Harmsworth papers.
He was accused of inability to cope
with the ammunition situation and
was held responsible not only for the
dearth of the general supply, but for
the blunder by which the British
forces in the field were left without
a sufficient amount of high explosive
ammunition.
The submarine warfare has shown
some signs of lethargy. Whether
orders from Berlin are responsible
is not known. Since the Lusitania
disaster most of the German sub
marines have given passengers and
crews time to escape. In one in
stance trawler was blown to pieces
and all of the crew were drowned,
the captain alone escaping. n.
The French and English have met
with varying fortunes at the Darda-
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