Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-06-24
SUMMARY Of THE
WORLDS EVENTS
IMPORTANT NEWS BOILED DOWN
TO LAST ANALYSIS.
ARRANGED FOR BUSY READERS
Brief Notes Covering Happenings In
s This Country and Abroad That
Are Of Legitimate Interest to
All the People.
European War News

European War News
Semioficial figures from Berlin esti-
mate the Russian losses at 100000
since May l. The Austro-Germans es-
innate the dead and wounded at
100000 and throw in another 100000
for Field Marshal Won Hindenberg in
Poland and Courland."
That the Austrians have so strength
ened their forces In operation against
Italy that they are now able to conduct
strong offensive is no longer in doubt
Reports have reached Rome from
Mort and Rovereto that violent as.
saults have been made against the Ital-
ians who are camping at Brentonico.
A correspondent at Constantinople,
in a dispatch to Berlin, was re-
liably informed that the British feet
has taken refuge from German subma-
rines in Kefala bay. distant about ten
miles from the Gallipoli coast.
The assertion is made by Petrograd
war Office that the Austro-Ger-
man advance has been made at the
cost of great losses. In two days
fighting near Stry the Teutonic forces
are said to have lost tens of thou
sands of men," and on one section on
the Gallipoli front their losses are
placed at between 10000 and 10000.
Dispatches received at Berlin from
the press headquarters of the Austro-
Hungarian army indicate that the Rus
SLAMS everywhere have been driven
back on their last defenses before
Lemberg, running north and south
about ten miles west of Lemberg.
French forces operating on German
territory in Alsace renewed the ter
rife offensive movement along the
Fecht river, crossing that stream and
capturing the outskirts of the imperial
city of Metzeral.
Official announcement was made at
Berlin that force of the allies which
attacked German positions north of
LaBassee canal was destroyed. only a
few succeeding in retreating.
Berlin claims the French and Brit
ish have both been defeated, but at
the same time announces that the
fighting is still going on and that the
Germans have lost some ground.
With about 100000 men fighting and
100000 shells fired by the cannon of
the French alone in a single day. a
gigantic battle is being waged north
of Arras. Tremendous losses have
been suffered by both sides. All ad-
vantage to date lies with the French,
II the official report sent from Paris
reveals the true situation.
PLAYA, with heavy losses to the enc
my. is claimed in the official state
ment of the Vienna war department.
In the Rocky district spirited fighting
is proceeding, the report adds. In
Tyrol attacks by Italian forces have
been repulsed.
Nearly five thousand men lost their
lives when three Turkish transports
we're sunk In the Golden Horn. in the
harbor of Constantinople, by British
submarine, according to a dispatch
received at London from Tenedos.
Only few of the soldiers were saved.
The submarine escaped.
Rome announced that an Austrian
submarine had torpedoed the Italian
submarine Medusa in the Adriatic.
Occupation by the Germans of ad-
ditional villages In the Shawl district
and farther south In the region east
of Mariampol is admitted by the Rus
SLAMS in a statement issued at the war
Office at Petrograd.
Domestic
A dispatch to Denver, Colo, from
Node. Wyo.. stated that four persons
were killed and much live stock per-
ished in a cloudburst in the Niobrara
valley.
The largest battleship in the world,
the Arizona, was launched at the New
York navy yard in Brooklyn. The Ari-
IONA will be able to throw from her
dozen 14-inch rifles broadside of
$1,000 pounds distance of 20 miles.
She will displace $4,000 tons.
Chicago's biggest car strike Is over.
The strike was brought to sudden
end by Mayor Thompson, after an all
night conference with members of the
strike committee of the city council
and officials of the car mems unions
and the transportation companies.
H. X. Thaw won big victory in his
fight for freedom when the court of
appeals at Albany. N. X, upheld Judge
Peter A. Hendricks in his ruling that a
Jury should pass upon she question of
Thaw's mental condition.
Fred Shaver shot and killed his IA
Their, his stepmother and a policeman
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