The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-05-07
A GENERAL SURVEY OF
The WAR.

Thursday, May 29.-Three warships
Of the allies are reported to have en-
tered the Gulf Of Smyrna to renew
the bOmbardment of the Notifications.
Conflicting reports from the Darda'
nelles disclose the fact that there has
been serious fighting between the
land forces of the Turks and allies
but leave the issue in doubt. From
London comes a general report OF
success, confessing to no reverses
COnstantinOple states 5000 French
and British soldiers were driven bach
OF the sea and $4,000 taken prisoner.
According to British and French re
ports, German attacks in Flanders
have wholly ceased, and Berlin re
ports confirm the claim by silence.
On the eastern front the Germans
report an advance in the Suwalki re
gion of north Poland along a twelve
mile line
Friday, April 30.-The situation il
the Dardanelles remains more or less
of a mystery Reports of huge vic
tories by the Turks play rather less
prominent part in the news. and more
credence is given to the dispatcho
which credit the allies with havins
established themselves on the CALI
poll Peninsula along the hilly fringe
of coast from Sedd-elBahr to Caps
Suvla
The warships have been maintain
ing an incessant bOmbardment, but
as yet have not advanced farther
than Kephez, promontory on tn
Asiatic side of the Dardanelles abou
four miles west of Kilid Bahr.
The fighting in Flanders continues
the Belgians bearing the brunt for the
present and claiming slow progress
on the right bank of the YpreS canal
At some points the Germans have
made slight advances.
The war office at Paris says the
Germans have bombarded Dnnkirk
nineteen largo >sba1ls bo:-ins a.ien &c
Gno s-rencn coast city.
Saturday, May lin today's dis
patches the British admiralty an
nounces that Maidos, town on the
Gallipoli Peninsula, north of the mar
rows, is in flames.
After serious fighting, in which the
Turks offered a stubborn resistance.
British troops, according to an official
statement, have established them
selves on the Gallipoli Peninsula anG
advanced a considerable distance to
ward the narrows of the Dardanelles.
while the French have cleared Cape
Kaleh, on the Asiatic side Of the
straits, of Turks.
The Turkish official statement is
sued today, reviewing the operations
in the Dardanelles, claims the lane
batteries have sunk British destroy
err. badly damaged the French cruiser
Jeanne dare and the British battle
ship Triumph, Majestic and Ven
geance.
The French claim important gains
north of Ypres, but Berlin says their
attacks were repulsed.
Sunday, May. NAVAL activities
have come to the front again in the
campaign The American oil tank
steamer Gulflight, bound for French
port, has been torpedoed off the Scilly
Islands: the French steamer Europe
was sent to the bottom near Bishops
Rock; the British steamer Fulgent
was sunk by a submarine Off Skelllg
Rocks A German submarine sunk the
British torpedo-boat destroyer Recruit
in the North Sea. Two German tor
pedo-boats sunk the Trawler Column
bia. seventeen fishermen being drown
ed. and were in turn pursued and sunk
by British destroyers
There has been little fighting in Bel
GUM and complete quiet along the
British front The French have bonn
barded the intrenched camp of Metz
and announced that their fire has
proved efficacious against one of the
forts, the barracks and the railway
nearby
German forces are to the southwest
of Courland, and their operations in
the Baltic provinces seemingly have
taken the Russians off their guard
This movement, according to the Ger
man official statement, is making
satisfactory progress.