The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-06-09
A GENERAL SURVEY OF
The WAR.

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the worlds greatest sea battle
Britain lost the large battle cruisers,
Queen Mary, Indefatigable and Irwin
chile and the cruisers Defence and
Black Prince, besides several destroy
ers Germany's losses are uncertain,
but the Promern, battleship of the
superintendent type, the light
cruisers Frauenlob and Wiesbaden
and several torpedo boats were lost
The British admiralty puts the loss
of British vessels at II, which does
not include the Warspite, dread
naught of 2750O tons, reported
by Berlin The total tonnage of the
British warships lost exceed 10000,
while those of the Germans is about
$4,000 The value of British ships is
put at over $6O,OOO,O00.
The Germans have shifted their at
tack at Verdun to the east. A claim
of an advance at Caillette wood and
capture of over 1000 men is made in
Berlin.
Petrograd admits the Russian adj
vance in the Caucasus halted by the
Turks
Saturday, June 3.-If revised British
reports on the losses in the North Sea
naval battle are correct, eighteen Brit
ish and fifteen German ships were
sunk. The British dead are estimat-
ed at 5000 Rear Admiral Horac e
Hood went down with his flagship the
Invincible, and the captains of the
Indefatigable, Invincible and Queen
Mary are also reported lost.
In the course of violent attacks On
Fort Vaux, on the Verdun front, east
of the Meuse, the Germans penetrated
a deep ditch north of the main French
position, the French war office admits
The ridges of the heights southeast
of Zillebeke, southeast of Ypres, Bel
GUM, anG the British position beyond
have been captured by storm by Ger
man troops, the German war office an
nounces
Sunday, June 4.-Great Britain
cially claimed the victory in the great
naval battle off Jutland, fought last
Wednesday off the Skager Rack. The
admiralty issued an official statement,
saying the German losses in ships
were heavier than the British, mot
merely relatively but absolutely"
losses consisted of 2 battleships,
cruisers. destroyers and U-boat
A Rome report claims that the max
imum effort of the Austrians was
made on May 80 and 81 and June
against the plateaus of Arsiero and
Asiago and that the result was dis
astrous to the Austrians, who suffered
enormous losses.
A great battle is raging about Fort
Vaux, one of the Verdun fortresses, it
being only the second German attempt
to capture a permanent fortif1cation
Monday, June 5-The Russians have
begun a new offensive movement on
a large scale on the Austrian front.
The Petrograd statement announces
marked successes from the Pripet
marshes to the Roumanian fontier,
with the capture of $4,000 prisoners.
Vienna admits the violent lombard
ment of the Austrian positions.
Austrian attacks in the Lagarina
valley where IN attempt was made
to carry the important Italian position
at Conf Zugna were repulsed, the
Italian war office announces.
The struggle of the Germans to cap
ture Fort Vaux continues. The French
still hold the fort, however, despite
the use by the Germans of liquid fire,
Paris reports.
A Reuter- dispatch from Zurich says
that members of German landstrum,
class of 1917, who are living abroad
have been ordered to return home i'm
mediately.
Both Petrograd and Constantinople
claim successes in the Caucasus.