The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-08-06
A GENERAL SURVEY OF
The WAR.

Thursday, July 29.-The report that
from have repulsed three furious at
tacks by the troops of General Mack
ensen, and, in a counter offensive, re-
captured the villages of Bakolupy
Madam and Ostrowsky, if confirmed
by later dispatches, is the most sig
nifcant item of news from the eastern
front today.
On the western front the Germ"1s
trench positions near Souchez, and
Berlin reports the Lingekopf ridge,
near Munster in the Vosges, has been
won back by its troops.
There is a lull on the Isonzo front,
which Vienna attributes to the defeat
of the Latins in their attempts to
storm Goritz and other strongly forti-
fled positions.
Friday, July 30.-Petrograd dis
patches indicate that Notwithstanding
the apparent improvement in the Rus
sian situation on the Narew and Wis
ula fronts, it has been decided not to
abide the issue of a decisive struggle,
but to abandon the present line of de-
tense and retire on the GrOdno-Brest
Litovsk Notifications along the Me
men and Bug.
The reaching of this decision seems
to indicate that the Russian general
staff has knowledge of conditions that
are not evident in the recent fighting.
Either they are aware Of enemy plans
that will greatly increase the peril, or
they realize the impossibility of main
tanning the stubborn opposition that
lately has marked the Russian front
The Italian and western fronts are
devoid of significant news, except for
the Vienna report that the Latins have
retired from their advance positions
at the Goritz bridgehead.
Saturday, July 31.-The thrill of
Russians and the Teutons on the Me
men-Bug front. On the result of it de-
ponds the life of Russia as a military
power. If Won Buelow outstrips the
grand duke to the Niemen, or Mack
ensen outstrips him to the Bug, dis
aster seems inevitable for his armies.
Mackensen has taken Lublin; on the
vangorod-Lublin-C holm railroad, thus
cutting off one of the main routes of
retreat from Ivangorod.
To1,-o UronoI. r0no~ka ~ otto
at HODGE, east of Ypres, where a bonn
bardment was followed by what the
British commander calls "an attack
with fame projectors" 1t resulted in
the capture of first-line trenches on
front of 500 yards.
On the Italian front the Latins claim
minor successes in the Adige Valley,
where matters have been stationary
for some weeks, they also report the
capture of trenches in the Carso Sec
tor of the Isonzo front.
Sunday, Aug. 1.-THE capture of
Cholm by the German troops in pur-
the German war office. The statement
tells of stubborn resistance on the
part of the Russian defenders between
the upper Vistula and the River Bug
The Germans troops have driven
the cars forces from positions near
Kurow, east of Nowo Alexandria,
south of Leczna, southwest and south
OF Chelm and southwest of Dubienka.
Heavy Russian counter attacks have
been repulsed by the Teutonic troops
who advanced across the Vistula north
of Ivangorod.
On the western front an artillery ac-
ton of medium intensity has occurred
In Artois and in the Valley of the
Aisne. Berlin reports British attack
against new German positions near
HODGE completed collapsed and that
French attacks against Souchez failed.
NJ significant news has been re-
ceive5 from t'.e ta::2., src.t.