The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1915-06-05
PROGRESS OF THE WAR
From Sundays salt Lake Tribune

War between Italy and austria
Hungary began on May "a. Italian
forces Immediately moved eastward
toward the Isonzo river in the cam
! palgn for the capture Of Trieste.
| simultaneously battles began for the
| possession of passes and other STRAIT
egic points in the Austrian Tyrol.
Five days of fighting have brought
| the Italians to the Isonzo river and
in some places across it. In the
mountain battles the Italians have
forced their way through some pass
es and are seeking to move on Trent
| from the southeast and northwest.
Their progress has been slow.
Immediately upon the opening of
hostilities Austrian cruisers, destroy
ers and torpedo boats made a raid
along the Italian east coast. At
Rimini. Porto Corsini, Ancona and
Barletta the Austrians shelled bridg-
es, railways and other objects of mill
itary value, doing considerable DAM
age and causing some loss of life.
At Porto Corsini and Austrian
cruiser, a destroyer and a torpedo
boat began a bombardment. Con-
cealed batteries opened on the war
ships and seriously damaged the tor
| pedo boat. The cruiser was also
damaged and a number of officers
and sailors killed. The ships with
drew to the Austrian naval base at
Pola.
In a fight between IN Austrian
| cruiser and Italian torpedo boat de-
| stroyers near Barletta the Italian de-
stroyer Turbine was sunk. Some OF
the crew were saved by the Aus.
TRANS and others by Italian battle
ships which drove off the Austrians,
~inflicting some damage.
In a fight between Italian destroy
ers and Austrian submarines and g
torpedo boat on Thursday one sub.
marine was sunk.
At the Dardanelles the English
suffered the loss of two battleships
which were torpedoed by a subma
rine. The Triumph was sunk one
day and the Majestic the next. The
submarine escaped. The loss of life
in both instances was heavy, although
hundreds we're saved.
The land operations on the Cali
poll peninsula are proceeding slowly
The Turks are resisting stubbornly
on every inch of ground. but the AL
lies continue to make slight gains
The loss of life on both sides is heavy
An English submarine. the Ell
penetrated into the sea of Marmors
and even to the waters near Con,
stantinople, sunk a transport fillec
with ammunition, torpedoing two
supply ships and probably torpedoine
a transport in Constantinople har.
Dor.
On May q the auxiliary cruiser
Princess Irene was blown up at Sheer
ness, one of England's great nava
harbors and arsenals. The cause Of
the explosion has not yet been deter
mined. The cruiser carried a crew
of $50 men and on board at the time
of the explosion yer many work
men. The estimates as to the loss O.
life range from 1926 to 400 or more.
The American steamer Nebraskan
while on her way from Liverpool tt
this country, vas torpedoed or strucl
a mine off the southern coast of Ire
land. She was able to make her way
back to Liverpool. The latest in
formation is to the effect that sht
undoubtedly was torpedoed. Sh'
was not carrying contraband, bu'
was coming home in water ballast.
Two German dirigibles bombardet
West End. England. causing thu
death of a woman. The English say
little material damage was done
One of the dirigibles was struck BY
a she'll, according to a later repor'
from Switzerland, and is believed t.
have fallen into the North sea.
In Galicia the Austro-German for
ces continue to meet with success, al
though at one point they were de-
feated by the Caucasian corps of the
Russian army. losing II guns. This
did not stop the general advance
which has for its object the isolation
of Przemysl and a move toward Lem