The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-08-20
RUSSIANS CLAIM GERMANS ARE
TURNED IN RIGA DISTRICT
WITH HEAVY LOSSES.
ALLIES HAMMER TURKS
The Diplomats Of the QuadrupIe En-
tente Powers Are EndeaVoring to
Bring the Balkan States Over
to Their Side, Etc.
The European War Situation.

TRANS, ana l6dVy IlSnLlnS Is uOH III
progress in Bosnia and Herzegovina,
in Northwest Russia and Poland, in
Asiatic Turkey and probably on the
Gallipoli peninsula, where the allies
lately have landed large forces Of
fresh troops.
On the different fronts the ebb and
flow of battle varies, according to the
official reports of the Contending fac
lions.
Although the Montenegrins claim
that in Bosnia and Herzegovina they
have achieved successes in artillery
and infantry engagements near Cor
asda and GasgO, it is in the Russian
report that the most momentOus hap
penings are chronicled. Petrograd de-
claTes that the Germans in the Riga
district of Northwest Russia near
EKovno and in the Vieprz and Bug re-
IgiOns have been repulsed by the Mus.
lcovite forces-near Ostrow and along
the roads between Chelm and Vladova
with heavy casualties.
The Germans on their part assert
that they have occupied Lukow, forty
miles northwest of IYangorod and
,Zambrowa
On the Austro-Italian frontier artil-
lery engagements and infantry attacks
continue without, however, any decis-
i've results
A British report says British sub.
marine has torpedoed and sunk in the
Dardanelles the Turkish gunboat
Berk-ESatyet and an empty transport.
The diplomats Of all the belliger.
ents, for the moment, are concentrat'
ing their attention on Sofia, for Bull.
garia holds the key to the situation.
1t is said she is being smiled upon and
offered territorial concessions as an
inducement for her to join one side
or the other or to remain neutral,
Both the German and entente minis
tiers are said to be finding their en-.
deavors hindered by their friends.
Greece and Serbia are unwilling to
conCede to Bulgaria the parts of Mace
donia which are her price for joining
the allies, while Turkey is opposing
concessions which Austria and Ger
many desire her to make to insure
the continued neutrality of the Sofia
government.
While the Russians are fighting des-
perately to eXtricate themselves from
the Gordon of Austro-German troops
which is steadily pressing them more
closely in Poland, their allies are
working feverishly and with consider
able success to open the Dardanelles,
through which they hope to pour into
Russia much needed munitions of war
For the present at least attention
has been somewhat diverted from the
great drive the Germans and Aus
TRANS are making against the Russian
forces to the DardanelIes, where the
allies and the Turks are at grips in
vicious fighting on the Gallipoli PENN
sula.
While the claims Of the allies and
the Turks are at variance as to what
has been accomplished in the new Of
fensive of the allies, there may be
cleaned from the official reports of
both London and Constantinopls that
fighting of sanguinary nature is TAX
lg place and that each side has SUI
Tered heavy casualties.
n General Sir Ian Hamilton, the Brit
ish commander, reports that now on
the southern portion of the peninsula
the allies, chiefly through the gallan-
try and dash of the Australians and
New Zealanders, have trebled the area
of ground they previously held and
that on the Asiatic shore of the OAR
danellesla French warship is reported
TO have put five of six guns of Turk.
ash batteries out of action.
Although Enver Pasha, the Turkish
minister OF war, admits that the allies
have landed $4,000 fresh men in their
new operations, ne seemingly is Opt.
mistic.
A sea disaster has befallen three
warships-the British auxiliary cruiser
Ramsey, the German auxiliary cruiser
Meteor and the Austrian submarine
U-12. The Ramsey was sunk in the
North sea by the Meteor, which later.
while being chased by British cruis-
ers, was ordered abandoned by her
captain and blown up. The U-12 was
sunk by an Italian submarine in the
upper Adriatic sea.
Artillery engagements and infantry
attacks by the Italians and Austrians
on the Austro-Italian front are going
on in the same manner as they have
for weeks past, with each side claim.
ing victories c" repulses Of attacks at
isolated places
The Germans have launched another
air raid on the east coast of England
with Zeppelin alrships and allied air.
men have attacked with bombs two
towns in Bavaria In the raid on En-.
Gland fourteen persons are said to
have been killed and fourteen injured.
Two vessels Of the British navy
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