The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-04-09
A GENERAL SURVEY OF
THE WAR,

thursday, April lille .F1GHCA
steamer Emma, bound to Mordeaux,
was torpedoed off Beachq Head by
German submarine. Nineteen mem
bers of he. crew were drowned, only
two being saved.
The British admiralty announces
successful aerOplane attacks on Ger
man submarines at HObOken and Zee
5Tuggee, Belgium.
Petrograd says the Slavs west OF
Warsaw have delivered swift smashes
against General Mackensen's forces
along a fifty-mile front from the Wis
tula to Opozno and claims success at
several points.
Vienna claims the Russians have
been unable to make any important
gains along the Carpathians.
The situation in the AugustoWo and
the Suwallli districts remains I'm
changed, according to the German
var office which says Russian at
tampts made at night to cross the
Rawka river at a point southeast OF
Sklerniewiez resulted in failure and
Russians attacks on Opoome were re-
pulsed.
Friday, April 1.-Two more neutrals
ships have been blown up and sunk
with the loss of seven lives as added
toll in the blockade war by the Ger
mans The Dutch steamer Schieland
vas sunk four miles southeast OF
Spurn in the North Sea. The Norwe
Gian bark Nor, was destroyed west of
Dogger bank after the crew was given
a chance to leave. The sinking Of
three British trawlers and of the Brit
ish steamer Southpoint also is re-
ported.
The German general staff reports
heavy infantry fighting in and near
TIC forest of lie Pretre throughout
the night and say that the Germans
repulsed the French attacks and drove
the enemy back to their old positions
The Russian war office says the
Germans have been driven back in
North Poland toward the East Prus-
sian frontier
Saturday, April 3.-The great battle
for the possession of the Carpathian
passes is approaching the decisive
stages. Along a twenty-mile front
line reaching from VIOLA Michova east
ward to the River Sen great armies
are locked in death struggles on the
icy hills According to dispatches re-
ceived in Petrograd the Russians be-
tween the Lupkow and UZsok passes
have driven the Austrians backward
upon the heights and have seized the
railway leading through VIOLA Mich
ova and Lupkow southwark into Hun
gary.
There has been no serious fighting
recently in the Dardanelles.
The British steamer Lockwood was
torpedoed by German submarine off
Start point, in Devonshire. The mem
bers of the crew were saved.
Sunday, April 4.-The struggle in
the Carpathians continues to be most
desperate. Between the Lupkow and
the Uzok passes the Russians have
advanced to within mile of the sum,
nit, according to Petrograd reports,
and the retirement of the Austrians
from their positions near the latter
| pass is regarded as imminent. Such
| a retirement would open the Hungar-
| ian plans to the Russian invaders.
Within the past ten days the Rus
slams have taken most of the sum.
mits of the Beskid range.
a statement issued by the Austrian
war office says the presence of large
| Russian reinforcements arriving from
| Permysl compelled the Austrian army
| TO withdraw from the Beskid region.
The French war office reports con
tinued progress in the Woevre front
and the capture of the village of Reg
neville, west of Fay-en-haye.