The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-07-01
WAR SUMMARY
PROGRESS OF CONDITIONS AS
COMPLIED BY THE ASSO-
GATED PRESS.

New York, July Special: The
Russians now are making their stand
on the Bug river. This great stream,
which offers many advantages for a
strong defense, rises near Zloczow,
in Galicia, runs almost north, forms
a great part of the eastern frontier of
Russian Poland, and joins the Vistula
eighteen miles northwest of Warsaw.
1t is along the Galician course that
the army of Grand Duke Nicholas is
believed to have taken up strong po-
sitions, the loss of which would mean
the further retirement of the Russian
forces.
Already the Austro-Germans have
pushed the Russians back to the Bug
river, near Kamionka, northeast of
Lemberg, and farther north they
have penetrated Russian Poland, cap
turing the important town of Tomas
COW. They have also. according to
the official report from Vienna, driv-
en- the Russians holding ground near
Sielec northward as far as Krystian-
pol, a distance of about eight miles.
and have taken Burstyn, north of
I1dlltk. Ill IdCI the IidSS6S VI AUS
trian and German troops are advanc-
ing along their entire front in the
southeast, forcing the Russians be-
fore them in a broad, sweeping
movement, and in the east pushing
forward with Warsaw, the Polish
capital, as their objective.
Should the Austro-Germans sue
coed in crossing the Bug river in
strength, the complete evacuation of
would seem probable.
An interesting feature of the war
is the occupation of Scutari, Albania,
by the M-ontenegrins. Two years
ago in the Balkan wal the Monte
negrin troops captured Scutari after
a long siege and held ii for a time
against the protests of the great
powers-Austria and Italy being
mostly concerned-but its evacuation
was ordered by King Nicholas when
the M"ontenegrin coast was blockad-
ed by an international naval squad
ron. Serbia had already SEN troops
into Albania when Montenegrin de-
cided to make a second descent on
Scutari. which has long been an OBJ
ieet of her desire.
The western zone is strangely
quiet. Although the sector in which
Arras is situated is still the scene of
French efforts TO gain ground. which
i'm the final accounting would prove
of imemasurable value to them, and
fighting also has been going on in the
Vosges, where the Germans captured
positions held by the French on the
slopes TO the east of MetZeral, only to
have them retaken. There are great
stretches of the Franco-Belgian front,
which to the uninitiated are eharac-
terized by a somewhat mysterious
activity. This has been noticeable
of late with reference to the section
held by the British troops.
In the guild hall of London Pre-
mier Asquith has made a plea to the
people to come forward and subscribe
TO the new war loan, and at the same
time urged upon them the necessity
of thrift to this end.
In the French senate, Premier vi
viani and the war minister, NJ. Mil
lerand, urging the passage of the APP
preparations bill providing $1,120,-
000, 900 to V the government X
penses for the quarter beginning
July /, which was eventually adopt
ed, made a plea for solidarity and pa
tient efforts. The war minister an
nounced a vast increase in the pro
duction of ammunition and guns.