The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-03-10
A GENERAL SURVEY OF
The WAR.

Friday, March 3.-Russia is again
war news. Bitlis, 120 miles southwest
of Erzerum has been captured by
the Russian troops, and the
Black sea, to the west and the south
west Petrograd reports the capture
of large supplies.
At Verdun the struggle is Increasing
in intensity Between Malancourt and
Farges, west of the Mouse, against the
Pepper heights and Douaumont and
from the Woevre plains the enemy
guns blaze fiercely. Several violent
infantry attacks were made against
the French positions at Douaumont.
Paris admits the Germans entered the
village, but the French have regained
part of positions lost earlier in the
sighting
The sinking of La Provence, the
French auxiliary cruiser, it is report,
ed caused loss of $3.50 lives, the
greatest marine disaster of modern
times.
gates of Verdun hammered at the
hard with heavy artillery, but at
latest accounts had suspended infan-
try attacks. In the last fighting re-
ported the initiative was on the side
of the French, who desperately drove
back at the Germans in counter at
tack which gained them ground
The German thrusts in the new
phase of the titanic struggle were de-
Hvered with their heaviest force at
present on the salient to the north
east of the fortress, in which lies the
Douaumont plain.
The Russian occupation of Bitlis in
Turkish Armenia is regarded in Petro-
grad as a development of first rate
Importance, opening farther the way
to Bagdad for the Russian armies.
Sunday, Mar. 5.-The German sea
raider MOewe after running the Brit
ish blockade put into an unnamed
German port The Berlin report says
fifteen vessels were captured or sunk
by the raider or mines dropped by it,
by the latter means, the report says,
the warship King Edward VII being
sunk The raider also brought in $780,
900 gold bars.
In eight terrific infantry attacks O.
the Germans were defeated, the,
French report says.The French also
ratook trenches lost to the Germans
September 28th in the forest of Thia-
vile in Lorraine.
Mutinies and food riots are reported
in Turkey Russian reports say
Travellers from Cologne tell of food
riots led by women in that city. in
which the police charged the crowd,
injuring many.
Two Zeppelnis, the London war o.
fee reports, raided the east coast OF
England.
Monday, Mar. eight hundred
Austrian soldiers in barracks were
killed or wounded in the raid made by
Italian aeroplapes February 19 on the
City of Laibach, according to infor
moration received at Geneva.
Two high officers of the staff of
-Archduke Eugene. commander in
chief of the Austrian forces operating
against Italy, are said to have been
killed .-.4,
Twelve persons were killed and
thirty-three injured in Sunday nights
Zeppelin raid On the east coast of
England. Three zeppelins took part in
the attack.
After having vigorously shelled the
region between Bethincourt and the
Mouse the Germans, in strong in
fantry attack, captured the villages
of FORCES, about nine miles northwest
of Verdun.
In Champagne, the right and left
TANKS of the French were attacked by
the Germans in the region between
Mont Tetu and Maisons de Cham
payne. Near Maisons de Champagne
they succeeded in occupying small
section of the French trench.
Russian destroyers have sunk thirty
Turk sailing vessels along the Asia
Minor coastsaef the Black sea in the
past few days. Petrograd reports.