The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-06-18


airship visited the northeast coast
OF England last evening and drop.
ped many bombs. Fifteen deaths
are reported from those districts
and number Of persons were
wounded. Some fires were start.
ed by the proIectiles from the
Zeppelin, but by this morning they
had been overcome. This infor-
nation is contained In an official
announcement.
The invasion of the Province OF
Trent by the Italians Is proceeding
steadily. according to the Italian gen.
eral staff. and dominating positions are
being occupied gradually. The Aus
trians. who dispatched $4,000 men
from Trent to resist the invaders. have
not yet accepted battle. On the Is
ZonO front the Austrians have pre-
pared elaborate defenses. including In
some locations several lines of
trenches of masonry or concrete.
German claims of new successes IN
Galicia are confirmed In part by an Of
fetal statement from Petrograd. II is
said the Germans brought up fresh
troops and the Russians were com
PEELED To fall back. No mention IL
made of M0sciska, the capture OF
which was announced yesterday al
Berlin.
The British army on the western
front has resumed the offensive. II
was announced I'm London that the
British carried another line of Ger
man trenches west of Labassee.
A French torpedo boat has been
sunk i'm collision with British
steamer Six members OF the crew
were drowned.
War Zone Information.
London. June 16.-Advices received
here from Stornoway, Scotland. relate
that the Norwegian steamer Duranger,
formerly the Norwegian steamer Cey.
len. has been torpedoed and sunk by
The crew Of twenty-one arrived at
Stornoway.
A Copenhagen dispatch TO the Eek.
change Telegraph company says the
Swedish steamer verdandi. SAT tons,
was torpedoed or Christiania sound
cruiser took the crew aboard and
shelled. without sinking. the verdandi,
which was timber laden.
Berlin, June l6.-06icial announce.
ruent was made at army headquarters
that the Austro-German forces operat.
Ing In Gaiicia had captured the town
OF Mosciska.
Mosoiska Is situated on the river
wysznia and is an important town
on the railway running between Pre-
mysl and Lemberg. II Is thirty-seven
miles west Of the Galician capital.
The struggle for the position has
been particularly desperate since June
8. when the Austro-German forces
opened the attack ON the place with
an extremely active artillery fire.
Berlin 10 Pleased.
Berlin, June 16.-Among the items
OF news given out by the Overseas
agency Is the following:
Political circles and the press gen.
orally are pleased with the second
American note concerning the Lust
tania incident.
ut Is not an ultimatum and II con-
tains no sharp expressions. as had
been predicted by the British press.
'On the contrary, It leaves the way
open to friendly discussion and the
reaching OF an understanding satisfac-
tory to both sides.
Especially pleasing Is the offer OF
President Wilson to mediate between
Germany and Great Britain.
Most OF the Berlin papers say in
effect that II the United States sue.
ceeds in removing the fundamental
necessity Of submarine warfare by In.
ducing Great Britain to acknowledge
the declaration of London everything
will go we'll" ~
Duel With eayonets.
TAssociated Press Dispatch.1
Boulogne. France, June 16.-The
story of q duel with bayonets I'm which
both contestants were killed. il told
In Red Cross report from one Of the
field hospitals. Two miles south Of
the hospital says the writer. n
French Zouave got separated from
his fellows when they retreated aft
er an unsuccessful effort to take
German trench. A German soldier
leaped out of the trench and charged
the Zouave. bayonet fixed. The Zouave
met his foe In like manner and an
extraordinary duel took place. Neither
,,,as Iaead Ira f<.v foor nf lflling HE