The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-09
MUsCOWTEs CONTINUE 70 RE.
TREAT BEFORE AUSTRO.GER-
NAN FORCES IN GALgClA.
MORE AMERICAN lives LOST
Big Shells Are Hurled Into France by
Powerful Artillery Guns-ItaIlane
Now Face Strong Fortified
Austrian Positions.
From Battle Fronts in Europa.

nitions, according to the latest Of
fetal communication from Berlin and
Vienna. A continuance Of the ad
vance of the Austro-Germans along
the great extent of the fronts in Ga.
lcia and Poland is also reported, with
the Russians still continuing their
backward movement at nearly all
points, regarding which the Russian
war office has given no explanation,
The old British torpedo boat de.
stroyer Lightning, the British admir-.
atty announces, has been sunk by a
mine or torpedoed, fifteen members OF
her crew being lost.
In the western zone, the district
north of Arras and west of the Ar
come nave been the scene of heavy
bOmbardments, and in the latter re-
gion the Germans, by the use Of
heavy shells and shells containing
asphyXiating materials, according tO
the French, forced the first French
line, but were checked by the second
line and driven back by counter at
tacks.
ITO closing of the German-Swiss
frontier is taken as an indication that
the uorlnans oge sending large rein
forcements to the French front.
The Italians, in their Austrian cam
paign, are now coming up to the more
strongly fortified positions held by
the Austrians. Their operations have
been hampered by the teavy SHOWS
and swiftly flowing streams in Tyrol
while along the Isongo front their MI
merous attacks, though In some in
stances yielding them small gains,
have been in large measure held in
check by the Austrian guns.
The Dominion freight liner Arme-
MAN, flying the British flag and carry.
ing mules from Newport News, Va,
to England, was torpedoed and sunk
on Monday night by the German sub
marine UPS off Cornwall, England,
and nearly score Of American mule.
teers aboard are reported lost, &C.
cording to messages received by the
state department Thursday from Con.
sui John S. Armstrong, Jr., at Bristol.
Twenty-Five men were lost and ten
injured. The list Of missing as made
up from Consul Armstrong; report,
includes the following white men:
]. N. Monroe, New Orleans; B. NJ.
Cranberry, Montgomery, Ala; s. R.
Hutton, Gainesville, Va; E. William.
son, st. Louis, Mo; Harry Stone New
York City; Brown (carpenter)
Harrisburg, Pa; Dr., J. 8. Viso, Porto
Rico; R. H. Brooks, or West (chiaf
foreman of muleteers), London, a nat
uralized American.
Twelve American negroes. mule
teers aboard the Armenian. we're list.
ed among the missing. All we're from
Virginia.
The activity of German submarines
has been renewed In other directions.
for the British steamer Scottish Mon
arch OF more than five thousand tons.
bound from New York for Manchas.
ter, and three Norwegian vessels also
nave been sent to the bottom.
British troops. supported by their
Warships and the guns of the French.
have carried several lines Of trenches
in the neighborhood of saghir Dere
on the Gallipoli peninsula In brilliant.
~ executed infantry attacks.
Russia's reply TO the brilliant series
OF Austro-German victories In Galicia
is law setting up a board Of mum.
tons empowered to spend unlimited
money and given virtually unrestrict.
ed power over all private industries
In the whole Of the country.
1t is reported from Petrograd that
the creation of the board became law
with celebrity that was absolutely
astounding, which is taIen to indicate
that the country fully realizes that
the recent disasters to the forces of
Grand Duke Nicholas largely were
due to lack of munitions and eo1Iip.
ment.
The Russians now are making their
stand on the Bug river. This great
stream, which offers many adyan.
ages for a strong defense, rises near
lioczow, In Galicia, runs almost north
orms a great part of the eastern
rontier OF Russian Poland and Joins
he Vistula eighteen miles northwest
i Warsaw, 1t is along the Galician
curse that the army of Grand Duke
Nicholas is believed to have taken I'm
tFong positions, the loss Of which
'ould mean the further retirement Of
he Russian forces,
Already the Austro-Germans have
ushed the Russians back to the Bug
yer near Kamionka, northeast of
and further north have pen.
rated Russian Poland, capturing the
nportant town Of Tomaszow; they
ave also, according to the official
port from Vienna, driven the Rus
ans holding ground near Slelec
,rthward as far as Krystianpol. a