The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-06-25
RUSSIANS ARE HARD PRESSED
IN GALlClA BY THE AUS
TRIANS AND GERMANS,
French GAINING GROUND
Italians and AuStHans Are Fighting
Hard on Banks Of isonzo River,
While Allies Push Forth
in the DardRneIIes.
Latest From the War Fronts.

the British troops hage suddenly re-
sumed an active Offensive. A hn8 Of
German trenches al FeStIbert Was oC-
cupied but soon tost through the ViO-
lence of the German counter stack
But in the engagement In Belgium
the British were successful In carry
ing more than a half mile Of trenches,
including the whole Of the first line
and parts of the second line and theGa
they are holding.
Rheims has again been heavily
bombarded and the French report that
about dozen shells fell on the fa-
nous cathedral. German eeCopIanes
have dropped bombs CD Nancy, St,
Die and Belfort.
The capture OF 122,900 Russians and
a great number Of guns from yune l
to Is is reported By the Austrian war
office, while Berlins repogt gives the
German general Won Mackenso0,
credit for the capture Of 10000 since
June II. Whether ne latter are in
Guided in the Austrian official esti-
mates is not made clear.
Military observers at Petrograd eG,
press the, belief thai 100000 Ger
mans and AustTians are operating
against the Russians in the east No
one so far has attempted to say with
any exactitude how many Russians
are. under arms to oppose the inn
mense force, but eRHiy 10 the war Rus
sias potential powers for recruiting
were placed high up In the millions
The British sbeam4 strathnsCAn
was torpedoed Wednesday OF the
Sctlly islands and sank. twenty-five
members of the crew, including the
captain, were drowned
A Zeppelin raid On the northeast
coast of England has resulted In the
killing of sixteen pGsons and the in
juring of forty. The number Of deaths
resulting from Gesman giraltp raid
ont another portion OF the northeast
coast on the nigH Of June 6 was
twenty-fouf.
Mosciska, on the line Of the railway
between PrzemysI and Lsmberg, upon
which the efforts Of the Austro-Ger.
mans have been conferred giAee the
fall Of Przemysl, has been captured.
Mosciska lies about twenty miles east
Of Przemysl and is almost in direct
line with the Gaiician capital against
With. all the energies Of General Won
MaSkenzen, the German commander,
areSbeing directed.
A. fleet Of French aeroplanes has
borabarded Karlsruhe, capital Of the
grand dichy of Baden. and in order
to DO this made the longest air voy-
ag9yet undertaken by allied airmen.
More than a hundred bombs and
shais were dropped on various points.
These started fires and caused a seri-
ouSA panic at the railway station.
TWRpty- one of the twenty.three avia-
torssreturned to their base.
Twenty-Five thousand Austro-Hun,
gafan troops have been sent from
Trent against the Italians on the
Ri&Rovereto front.
Ee Austrians report that the Ital.
ianS httempts to approach Tolimino
an$ sPlava have failed. There has
be@S heavy fighting in the neighbor-
ho91 of Gorilla Cora and Gradisca,
in s$hich the combined casualties
nuNgered about 5000, almost equally
OWED,
ca the Gallipoli peninsula the
French and British are making slow
bug steady progress, It is asserted by
theBritish war office the Turkish of.
fenstRe has weakened and that the
geTeral situation favors the allies.
Ne6Srtheless, lengthy operations are
exREted on account of the difficulties
of She ground,
PIE balloting in the Greek elections
wa@mearly two to one in favor of the
paRtY Of former Premier Venizelos.
Why resigned the premiership when
tho Dacificist party opposed Greece's
eneg into the war.
fading to previous credits of 81.
S199O0,OOO, the British house of com.
mos has voted $3.50, 100000 for the
prosecution of the war. Premier AS
QuR1 estimates that Great Britain's
daDy expenditure will be not less than
$15gO0,OOO.
She French press is now clamoring
foA more cannon and more ammuni.
tioAA with as much insistence as the
E1Nish.
M Filipeseo, leader of the Rou-
m&8an conservatives, declared Mon.
daf tthat the quadruple entente pow
er9S Great Britain, France, Russia and
ItaD have agreed to the demands of
Rddaania, Therefore a definite con-
cl&tpn Of an understand Lg for the
mi Eyention Of Roumania in the war
is 4hminent,
A3is reported Greece and Serbia
wRklsend an identical note to the Bull.