, 1915-05-20
WAR NEWS SUMMARIZED

sassee-has been made by the allies
and. according to French and Brit
ish reports, has been attended with.
,~onspicuous success. The claim
that the German line was broken
down over the greater part Of a two
mile section is disputed, however
by the German war office.
. berlin dispatch asserts the Russians
have suffered very heavy losses ir
ealieia, notwithstanding their &c.
malls.
A further Austrian advance In Galicia
is announced in an official state.
ment issued at Vienna. The Aus
TRANS have captured D%rohabycz, In
central Galicia, about forty miles
southwest Of Lemberg.
Clashes between Austrian and italian
frontier guards are reported. News
dispatches from the border say an
UPRISING has occurred in Trieste,
one of the principal Austrian cities
claimed by Italy. A crowd, com
posed largely Of women, became SO
violent in anti-Austrian demonstra
tons that II was charged by troops
oc~casloning the death Of forty-sever
women and injury of more than 300
Unrest in Asiatic Turkey during the
war a resulted In further attacks
by Turks and kurds on the Arme.
MANS. The Russian consul at Uru.
mlah, Persia, states that 5000 Ar.
menians have been massacred al
Van.
The Russian naval attache In London
announces that on May IS the Rus
sian Black sea fleet destroyed four
steamers, coal laden, two tugs and
twenty sailing ships.
A German Zeppelin cruising In the
~neighborhood of Brussels was sud
denly surrounded and attacked
by twenty-seven British a%eropIanes.
During a spirited fight 1t received
several mortal wounds and fell. All
the crew of sixty were killed. Two
%aeroplanes were destroyed by the
Z%eppelin's guns.
A Zeppelin airship coming from the
channel flew ove Calais, France.
II dropped bombs on various quar-.
tiers of the city, killing two children
and wounding n woman. The
property damage was slight. After
Its raid the Zeppelin sailed away In
the direction Of the sea.
The archbishop Of Canterbury In a
letter to Premier Asquith, and the
bishop of London In a sermon, have
appealed to the British government
not to make reprisals against Ger.
many for the 8 Of asphyxiating
gases by authorizing the army to
adopt similar means of attack.
kviators of the allies have Inflicted
damage amounting to more than 81,
100000 to the tanneries at strass
burg, which are working on material
for the German army.
Advices have been received from
Mytilene to the effect that furious
fighting continues In the DardaneIles
and that the Turkish losses have
been extremely heavy.
Reports were current again that the
German cruiser Karlsruhe was com.
Ing up the lane used by the German
raiders kronprinz Wilhelm and
Prlnz EiteI Friedrich to a haven Of
safety at Hampton Roads.
A representative of a London paper
describes a trip he made around
Germany, In the our Of which he
visited several camps where war
prisoners are informed. The prin.
eipal complaint of the B%ritishers
was the insufficiency of the food.
Allies have captured the towns of Ca.
reney and parts of Ablain, st. Ma.
zaire and Melville st. Vast. Ger.
man losses are tremendous.
of the Russians in the Ga.
ilcian and carpathian campaign
continues, according to Berlin, with
the capture of large numbers Of
men and quantities of wal mate.
rails.
says the fighting In western
Gaiicia Is decreasing In intensity
and that the Russian offensive far.
ther south, along the Dnelster river,
10 meeting with continued success,
with heavy losses to the Teutons.
the fighting in the Baltic provinces
of Russia, Berlin declares the situa.
tlon remains the same, but Petro-
grad AYERS that German attacks In
the region Of Shawl have bee re.
pulsed and that farther south, along
the Dubissa river, a German position
was taken.
another battleship, the Goliath, the
third that the British have lost since
the attack on the Dardanelles be.
gan, has been t%orpedoed by the
Turks, and of the crew of 700 or
more only 1870, Including twenty Of.
fcers, were saved.
\ British submarine, In a daring dash
through the straits into the Sea Of
mormora, torpedoed two Turkish
gunboats and a large transport.
ierman forces In vast numbers have
been delivering furious attacks
against the British, who, according
to both Field Marshal French and
the official eyewitness" Of the
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