The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1915-05-06
WEEKLY WAR news


ish war Office has issued, statemer
declaring that in the face of contir
ual opposition the allied troops hav
established themselves across tn
end Of the Gallipoli peninsula.
The Austrian submarine US ha
torpedoed and sunk the Frenc
cruiser Leon Gambetta in the Ionial
sea.
Friday Sporadic attacks charac
terize the campaign in Belgium anc
France, and on the whole the troop.
have remained comparatively quie
in the last "a hours. The Germans
have been repulsed at two points
by the Belgians north of Ypres and
by the French at Les Eparges.
Nor do the reports of the opera
tions in Poland and the Carpathians
record any movements having any
decisive effect on the campaign in
the east.
The Dardanelles is the central
point of interest. The British and
French landing forces, according to
the brief reports from the British war
Office, have succeeded in securing
firm foothold on the Gallipoli PENN
sula and on the Asiatic side of the
strait. These expeditionary forces
are said in some quarters to number
$1,000.
Saturday-The allies attack on
the Dardanelles, both by land and
by sea, apparently has begun in
earnest.
Having landed successfully at six
different places on the Gallipoli pen
insula, the British and Australasian
troops are declared by the British
war Office to have entrenched and
cons olidated their positions on line
extending from the southern extrem-
ity of the peninsula to point al
most behind the famous Turkish
forts protecting the narrows of the
Dardanelles.
Paris reports big allied gains to
the north of Ypres in the taking of
TWO successive lines of trenches and !
many prisoners. Berlin asserts that
he Germans still hold the bridge {
head on the western bank of the can
Il near Steenstraate and Het Sas,
md the eastern side of the waterway :
forth of Ypres. 1t is declared fur
her that an attempt by the French t
against the German right wing in
his region was repulsed.
There has been some fighting at i
'ther points along the western line, t
he most important of which was be- Y
ween the Mouse and the Moselle. a
here, Berlin says, a French attack
D regain captured positions failed
nd that the French lost three regi-
rental commanders, 40 other officers s.
nd 1000 men captured.
La the east fighting is in progress !"
-om northwestern Russia to the P
arpathians, with both Berlin and "
etrograd claiming successes.
Sunday While no official reports d
ave come through from the Dardan- a
lies recently, unofficial statements
ldicate that the allied feet is carry W
e on heavy bombardment. In
with the operations the 81
rench minister of marine has assert
that decisive results may be ex- T.
scted soon. -
In the west the Germans have been
Dunkirk from the land
de and the German submarines, "a
ter considerable lull in their oper-
ions, have made new raid on the "a
EST coast of England and Ireland 70
ID sunk two steamers, one on
'itish vessel and the other a Russian Tt
lie bombardment of Dunkirk has
suited in considerable loss of ha
e and many women and children HI
We fled from that place. is
Along the rest of the western front Ba
Imperative quiet prevails.
The Russians claim successful co,
vance on the left bank of the Me .Ir
n. They report that the Germans
We been repulsed in two attacks on r.
Ossowetz front, with large losses. =
t asserts that the Russian troops ~