The Chitina leader., 1915-08-17

feet has not been asceraned detail of the naval fight having
LONDON Aug 10-The fighting along the line is
again attracting the attention of the military Observers
operations by the allies about to take place in that theatre
Of the Yesterday after directing whitening artillery fire
the trenches Belgian village of Hodge, which
British lost to the Germans July &c. the English charged
the Germans at the point of the bayone and succeeded in
taking all their lost positions In addition to the taking
possession of their position British
charge the rushing forward with wonderful disregard
the danger taking prisoners and machine guns
LONDON Aug 10-Austria is massing troops along the
Serbian border and evident that they intend their
unsuccessful campaign The purpose the at this tme
is not much to crush Serbia find for the
transportation supplies to Turkey where the troops
defending the Dardanees finding the munon problem the
most difficult one they have to deal with
| LONDON Aug 10-The leading British newspapers give
much of their space today to discussing the peace overure
Germany made to Russia after the evacuation of War
The comments of the generally in sarcastic
one and frank unbeief expressed at the creduy of the
Teutons thinking that tie which binds the allies is so
weak that Russia could be induced yield such
Berlin offered The British papers all assert irrespective of
political belief that there be peace until the allies
victorious and until the Germans have been driven back
their SOIL defeated and crushed and Belgium restored
it's people England would fight to the end for these things
tho deserted by Russia and France and doubt
about the security the influences which bind the three
nations together 1t is generally believed that Germany would
be willing to conclude matters stand but the allies
ject the suggestion. ~R.e. ..--a-.
SOFIA Aug 14-The diplomatic battle going on in this
capital between the representatives of the belgeen nations
attempt to influence the position of Bulgaria side
the is coming head and is expected that the
will be arrived at within the next few days Bulgaria shows
desire to side with the allies provided her aspirations Mace
dona allowed to be realized and Serbia coded the territory
that Bulgaria believes should have been hers the fruits of
the late Balkan Today the Bulgarian prime minister
notified the representatives OF England France Russia and
Italy, that Bulgaria would at enter the the side of
the allies by declaring against Turkey if the Serbans
ceded her that portion of Macedonia claimed by Bulgaria
BERLIN, Aug 1.-The official German statement for today
that the advancing Teuton armies Poland have captured
Siedce This town is about sixty miles east of Warsaw and
half between the Polish capital and the fortress of Bre
tovsk 1t is in the base OF the great defensive triangle form
ed by the Notifications of tovsk Ivangorod and War
and it's capture is indicative of the great German advance
still under is ke yha the next stand to be
made by the retiring Russians will be along the Bug
PETROGRAD Aug 1.-THE southern most portion of the
battle line Poland has been the of fighting The
Russians have taken stand along line running from Chom
to Wlodawa in the direction of the fortress of tovs
Yesterday repeated Teuton attacks by the
duke Josef Ferdand repulsed with heavy losses The
Germans continue to advance in their effort enveop
the Russian CENTER and sacrificing number of
soldiers in forcing the entrenched positions the Russians
! CONSTANTINOPLE Aug 14-Heavy fighting has been
continuous along the front the southern end of the Gapo
peninsula the last few days. The allied troops have been
lacking the Turkish trenches Every attack has been
repulsed with heavy losses to the enemy and the Turks
stubborny holding their positions in the face of terrific art
ey fire. and heavy bayonet attacks by the English and New
Zealand soldiers 1t apparent that the allies preparing
make strong effort to gain decisive victory in this region
and counterfeit possible the effect of the Russian
Poland.
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morning that Italian warshps had sunk the Austrian sub
marine U2 in the Ariac The exact location of the sinking
given but the submarine discovered by destroer
who sgaed the heavier vessels the position of the SUMNER
sble. Well directed shell fire did the rest.
| LONDON, Aug. 1.-THE Germans have not yet decided
that air raids the coast of England result military ad
vantage Last night fleet of Zppens accompanied by some
Taubes the east coast of Britain and dropped
both mceniary and explosive bombs various shore towns
AS result of the raid six noncombaans killed and tr
teen wounded The property damage negligible most
of tho he fo11 in
| LONDON, Aug. IA British submarine entered the
of Dardaneles yesterday and orpedoed the Turkish
gunboa Deristave The vessel sank within ten minutes
with large loss of e the sailors thrown into
fusion by the torpedo striking and unable to launch any
life boats The gunboat accompanying army trans
port which also torpedoed and sunk by the English under