, 1915-06-17
OTTOMAN GUNBoAT is SUNK AND
TRANSPORT CAPTURED IN
PERSIAN GULF.
RUSSIAN ARMY CUT OFF
GERMAN ADVANCE ACROSS
pNiEsTER SHUTS OUT sLAv
FORCES.

western Newspaper Union News Service.
London, June 14.-Saturday's re-
port of German submarine activity
shows that one steamer and three
trawlers were sunk. Last week Ger
man submarines sank fifty-four YES
sells, of which seven were neutral.
The others comprised two French, two
Belgian, three Russian and forty Brit
ish. In addition, two fishing smacks
we're sunk by a Zeppelin. A dispatch
from Copenhagen says Norway has
lost twenty-nine vessels since the out
break of the war, with a total valua-
ton of $7,5OO,00
London, June 15.-The arsenal at
the Austro-Hungarian naval station at
Pola, on the Adriatic, was almost en-
tirely destroyed by bombs, dropped
from an Italian airship, according to
the Messagero at Rome. There were
at the time in the arsenal ten a
ships, including one battleship, two
cruisers and several submarines.
Three of these vessels are supposed
to have been damaged. With Monfal-
cone and Gradisca in their hands the
Italians la begun an attack on Cor
liza (Gorz) further up the Isonzo
river, and one OF the Austrians' most
strongly fortified frontier positions.
London, June 12.-Russia nounc
the repulse of the Germans on the
right bank of the Dniester in the vi
cinity of Surawana, and also at several
other points in this region, mt asserts
that thousands of the Austro-German
soldiers were captured. Vienna, on
the other hand, says that in southeast
Galicia and in Bukowina the Teutons
were successful in their attacks on
the Russians south of the Dniester and
along the Pruth.
While the Italians are claiming the
capture of Ploeken, a strategic point
on the Austro-Italian frontier, the
Austrians assert that the Italian at.
tacks on all their fronts have been
repulsed.
1t is officially announced from Rome
that the Italians have occupied Ora
disca, six miles southwest of Gorilla
in Austria-Hungary.
The Swedish steamer Otago, bound
for Hull, was torpedoed and sunk.
London, June 10.-Premier Asquith
announced in the House of Commons
that the total Of British casualties
from the beginning of the war to May
81 was 25S,069 men in killed, wounded
and missing.
Petrograd. Russian submarines
sank the German steamer Hindenburg
and attacked a fleet of ten German
ships in the Baltic, it was semi-offi-
cially announced here.
London.-The town Of Stanislau
a been captured by the Austrians.
according to the official statement is
sued by the German army ~headquar-
tiers. Stanislau is seventy-five miles
southeast of Lemberg. the Galician
capital.
Official announcement was made by
Secretary of the Admiralty Balfour
that a German submarine had been
sunk and that six of her officers and
twenty-one members of her crew had
been captured. The British steamer
Lady Salisbury vas torpedoed by a
German submarine and sent to the
bottom.
Berlin.-The Russians are preparing
II evacuate Lemberg, according to Of
ficial dispatches received here. Forty
boxes containing valuable possessions
OF Lemberg museums and other insti.
tutions have been sent across the Rus
sian border.
Gen. Won L%insingen's advance across
the Dniester has pierced the Russian
line, cutting off the Russian forces
operating north of Bukowina from the
armies roun Lemberg. Dispatches
from the battle ron say Won Linsin-
gems advance continues over a broad
front.