The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-16
RUSSIANS fight HARD
TO CHECK GERMANS
WITH ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS THEY
ARE PROTECTING LUBlN, A
GREAT STRATEGIC POINT.
ALLIES GAIN IN France
The British and French Have Pushed
Forward in the DardaneiIes-itai'
iano and Austrians in Fierce
Artillery Duels.
From Battle Fronts in Europe.

protecting Lublin, in Poland, an I'M
portant strategic point in connection
with the threatened Austro-German
advance on Warsaw. The Russians
are attacking their adyersaries say
ageIy and as d consequence have COM
PEELED their withdrawal to the heights
north of Krasnik. Otherwise along
the front in the eastern zone the fight,
ing has been of a minor character re-
speeding the situation as whole, al
though apparently the Russian line is
holding at all points.
In the west the Germans have di.
rected strong attack against the
trenches in Flanders which the Brit
ish troops took from them July g.
but the attack, according to the
French war office, failed, as did also
a German attack against the French
between Angres and Souchez.
Various of the latest developments
in the European war have to do with
the United States. The German re-
ply to the American note bearing on
submarine warfare is, with the excep
ton of few minor changes, ready for
transmission to Washington. Wash
ington advices state that the outline
Of the German note as cabled the state
department by Ambassador Gerard is
far from satisfactory"
The great wireless station at Say
vile, L. l., has been taken over by
American naval officers and will be
operated by the government until the
close OF the European war.
While the steamship Minnehaha,
attire at sea, with 1900 tons of NUM-
tons aboard, was speeding to Hall.
fax, N. S., Thursday, the Atlantic
Transport Line officials and authori-
ties are bending every effort to learn
if the blaze caused by an explosion
could possibly have been the work Of
Frank Holt, the assaiIant of ]. P. Nor
gan, who had given warning that a
steamship would sink in midocean
on July Z.
The White Star liner Adriatic with
339 passengers, including the Canad-
ian premier, Sir Robert L. Borden,
and a large consignment of ammuni-
tion aboard, concerning whose safety
IN passing through the war zone there
has been much anxiety, has arrived
at Liverpool
In the fighting on land and sea no
outstanding incident has been report
ed except the torpedoing by an Aus
trian submarine in the Adriatic sea of
the Italian cruiser Amalfi
All the belIigerent powers are rapid
ly building submarines.
With their eyes upon Trieste, the
Italians have during the past few
days been engaged in a series of des-
perate actions along the Isonzo front,
The plateau of Doberdo, which is of
great strategic value with respect to
an advance on Trieste, has been the
scene of one Of the heaviest lombard
ments Of the entire campaign and OF
militant assaults by the Italians and
erce counter-attacks by the Aus.
fans, in which Austrians and Ital.
ians fell in great numbers.
Il One account reports one-fourth OF
the Italian army was engaged in the
operations against Gorilla, but not
withstanding the terrific hail of shells
and the heavy attacks of the Italian
infantry the Austrians repealed the
invaders, The king of Italy and Pre-
Inier Salandra are said to have wit
messed the battle.
On the Gallipoli peninsula the gen
eral activity of the Turks in their eff
forts to drive the French and Brit
ish allies into the sea- was still il
evidence on July 4, the period covered
by the latest report received from
General Sir Ian Hamilton Infantr,
attacks we're preceded by several bonn
bardments, in one of which 500
rounds of artillery ammunition wer,
expended.
Attention is still rivited on tina
crucial front in the eastern war zon,
lying between the Vistula and Bug, il
Gaufharn poIand uhara tho vraufnri
forces have been attempting to clea
the way to Warsaw.
The Russian forces, which had beef
retreating steadily before the Austro
Germans, are now holding thei
ground with the aid of strong rein
forcements, and in the battle whicl
Is raging near Krasnik they have in
flicted heavy losses on their advel
saries.
The campaign In Belgium ami
France has been confined largely t
artillery actions One strong offer
sive movement by the Germans in th
forest of Apremont was stopped b
the French,
The British government has decide
to take over the control of the sal
and supply of intoxicating liquors i
many districts where war material
being handled. This is made possibl
npder the powers conferred by the d.