The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-03-26
A GENERAL SURVEY or
The WAR.

time in nearly five weeks the Rus
slams are either over in East Prus-
sic or are on the line north of the Me
men and their drive is towards Tilsit.
The first seizure made by Great
Britain under the provisions of it's re-
Gently announced blockade of the Ger
man coast was made when the Swed-
ish steamer Geheland bacon, carrying
a cargo of provisions intended for a
German port, was held up and brought
into Lee in the custody of British
patrol boat.
The Glasgow steamer Gienartley
was torpedoed and sunk this morning
i'll the English channel off Beachy Head
Friday, March 19.-The French bat
tleship Bouvet, bombrading the Darda-
nelles forts, has been sunk by the
guns of the Turkish forts, the Turkish
war office announced in an official
state. No mention is made of the
fate of the crew.
Victory for the allies in desperate
fighting in the Lorette hills country
northwest of Arras and important
French gains in the Argonne were re-
ported in dispatches from the front.
Russians raiders who invaded East
Prussia at the extreme north have
actually succeeded in entering Memel,
fortified Baltic seaport, the German
war office admits.
fOrcements and have resumed a strong
offensive in BukOwina, according to 8
Bucharest dispatch.
A Copenhagen report says Denmark,
Norway and Sweden have made an
identical representation to the allied
governments against the Anglo-French
policy of reprisals on German com
merce
Saturday, March 2o.-Two more bat
ships of the allied fleet were blown
up while battering away at the Oar.
daEeles forts-The British Irresistible
and Ocean The waters had been
swept clear of mines, but, according
to the British admiralty, floating mines
were cast into the racing current
through the n3rrows and carried doom
to the British vessels and the French
warship Bouvet.
Most of the crew of the Bouvet were
drowned, while majority of the crew
of the British ships were saved.
The disaster announced will not, it
is stated, by admiralty officials, inter
fere with the Dardanelles operations
in the slightest.
The government of the Netherlands,
according to the correspondent of
Reuters Telegram company at The
Hague, has sent to Great Britain and
France a protest against the British
blockade of Germany.
Commanders of the Anglo-French
fleet in the Adriatic Sea have been
notified by their governments that the
transportation of goods of any kind
to or from ports on the Austrian coast
is prohibited under the terms of the
allies new naval policy and that
steamers carrying such cargOes are to
be seized.
Sunday, March 21-The long eX-
pected but scarcely dreaded Zeppelin
raid on Paris took place this morning.
Two of the craft appeared over the
city. dropped number of bombs on
the ciN and suburbs, doing but little
damage and departed just ahead of
squadron of French aeropdanes.
The passage of the anti-espionage
and anti-contraband law, which many
believe is the last step in Italys war
preparations, was passed in the sen
ate
The French official cOmmunique
states that after having lost the grand
and little Reichaker Hopes in the Vos.
ges. they have recaptured the latter
place and that a fight OF retake the
ether summit is now proceeding. 1t al
so claims that violent counter attacks
of the Germans at Las Eparges, on
heights of the Meuse, were repulsed
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