The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-06-22
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EurODe0s, War News

Berlin claims the French and Brit
ish have both been defeated, but at
the same time announces that the
fighting Is still going on and that the
Germans have lost some ground.
With about 100000 men fighting and
100000 shells fired by the cannon Of
the French alone in a single day,
gigantic battle is being waged north
of Arras. Tremendous losses have
been suffered by both sides. All adj
vantage to date lies with the French,
if the official report sent from Paris
reveals the true situation.
Repulse Of italian attacks near
PLAYA, with heavy losses to the enc
my, is claimed in the official state
ment of the Vienna war department.
In the Rocky district spirited fighting
is proceeding, the report adds In
Tyrol attacks by Italian forces have
been repulsed.
Nearly five thousand men lost their
lives when three Turkish transports
were sunk in the Golden Horn, in the
harbor of Constantinople, by British
submarine, according to dispatch
received at London from Tenedos.
Only few of the soldiers we're saved.
The submarine escaped.
Rome announced that an Austrian
submarine had torpedoed the Italian
submarine Medusa in the Adriatic.
Lieut.. Reginald A. J. Warneford, the
Canadian aviator who won the Vic
toria Cross and the Legion of Honor
by destroying a Zeppelin over Bel
GUM with a bomb, was killed by fall
ing from his aeroplane at Due, France.
Henry Beacher Needham, the Ameri-
can war correspondent, who was
passenger, also was killed.
Occupation by the Germans of adj
ditional villages in the Shawl district
and farther south in the region east
of Mariampol is admitted by the Rus
slams in a statement issued at the war
office at Petrograd.
Word was received at London that
the steamer Strathnairn was torpedoed
in the Irish channel twenty-five mem
bers of the crew were drowned.
Ambassador Gerard cabled to Wash
ington his formal report on how the
last American note to Germany was
received in official quarters in Berlin.
He spoke of it's reception as friendly
and courteous.
In the region of LaBassee about So
900 British were pitted against the
Prussian guard and Westphalian
troops in bitter hand-to-hand fighting
on a mile front, but, says the official
statement from Berlin, were repulsed
with fearful losses.
Sixteen persons were killed, at least
forty injured and many fires of more
or less serious nature were caused at
night along the east coast Of England
when Zeppelins dropped bombs at
many places along the coast.
Premier Asquith of Britain, on NOV
ing vote of credit for G250,000,000
(SI,250000,0 00), informed the mem
bers of the house of commons that the
expenditure in the next three months
would be not less than $15,000,000
daily. The house voted the credit.
The announcement recently made
by A. J. Balfour in the house of COM
mons that German submarine had
been sunk by the British is confirmed
by the German admiralty at Berlin. 1t
is stated that the lost submarine was
the U-14.
The French attempt to break
through the German line between Lie
ven and Arras is reported from Ber
lin to have resulted in German sue
cess.
twenty-five thousand Austro-Hun-
garian troops left Trent and are now
advancing against the Italians on the
Riva-Rovereto front.
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