The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-07-05
No Halt in Sweep of Ger
manic Armies NOrthward.
ARTILLERY VERY ACTIVE
Indications Point to Infantry Offensive
by the French in the Arras Region,
While the Germans In the Argonne
Are Attacking F%uriously.

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!. Berlin, July 3.-The Ger +
+ mar forces have reached the j.
+ Russian positions at Krasnik, 4.
!. In the Southern district OF \
+ Russian Poland, according to :
i the official statement issued by +
!. the German army headquar- +
v ters. The statement also says I.
+ that the Russian forces in the +
1. region west of Zamosc have +
4. been driven back. l.
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London, July 3.-Evidently bent on
. decisive victory against the Rus
SLAMS the Germans are not yet send
ing troops to the western front, but
assisted by their Austrian allies are
making every effort to capture the
Russian Poland capital. Warsaw.
Berlin claims further advances by the
great Austro-G German armies in Ca
licia, while Field Marshal Won Mack
ensen is pushing steadily ahead be-
tween the vistula and Bug rivers.
In the fighting in the cas- there Is
no indication, even in the Russian of.
fetal statements, hat there is any
halt In the sweep of Teutonic armies
northward and eastward from Lem
berg. Further south, however, the
troops OF the Grand Duke Nicholas
have made what looks like a deter
mined stand along the line of the
emilia Lipa river. Austro-German ac-
counts tell of victories even in that
sector of the c~urving eastern front,
but the Russians deny the reverses
there were serious, declaring desper-
ate attacks were repulsed with great
losses to the Teutonic forces.
German observers believe the Rus.
slams are preparing to abandon Ga.
licia and attribute the desperate
fighting north OF Halicz to a desire TO
give time for the preparation of
strong defensive positions beyond the
border. Reports from neutral sources
declare the Russians recently have
received new supplies of high ex.
plosives which have enabled them, in
their stand and retreat, to swell
enormously the casualty lists of the
assailing armies.
Indicates infantry Assault.
Artillery activity continues unabat-
ed in the Arras region of France, but
as yet there are no signs of an infan-
try offensive on that front, although
ID Ii scarcely possible that so many
thousands of shells are being fired
without some such objective. In the
Argonne region the Germans gained
some ground though at the expense of
heavy losses.
The furious German attacks in the
Argonne by an entire army corps with
the object of breaking through the
French line in the hope of reaching
Verdun will be repeated, according
to Lieutenant Colonel Rousset. mill
tary critic of the Petit Parisien.
He asserts successive checks have
not discouraged the Germans and that
they will continue their efforts to
gain control of the hilly forest region
called the 'Thermopylae of France"
Lieutenant Colonel Rousset and
other military writer's agree, however,
that the French forces have made
such preparations as to insure the
failure of all efforts on the part of
the crown princes army.
italian Gains Admitted.
The latest statements from the
headquarters of the Teutonic allies in
dictate that there has recently been
desperate fighting along the Austro-
Italian front. The main effort of the
Italians to advance seems to have
been northeast of Montfalcone, in the
Isonzo region, and the invaders are
admitted to have made slight ad.
yances The series of assaults as a
whole failed, however, the Austrians
claim.
The Italian war Office contents it
self with claiming ground snatched
A1h W Ahth tAC AuStIldH ut-
tenders, while along the rest of the
front the process of consolidating po-
sitions and breaking up preparations
by the Austrians for defense Is pro-
ceeding satisfactorily.
A further report regarding the Oar
danelles operations claims the colo
NAL troops have not been checked in
their efforts to advance, but that they
have been used merely to keep the
Turks on their front, too busy to send
reserves to hat portion of the line
where the Anglo-French troops made
IN advance of 1000 yards.
Further reports of occupation of AL
bantam territory have been received
Germans Sink Swedish Ships.