The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-02-21
WAR SUMMARY
PROGRESS OF CONDITIONS AS
COMPILED by THE ASSO-
GATED PRESS.

New York, Feb. 21.-Special The
latest official statement by the Rus
sian war office reports the capture
OF the town OF Mush, in Asiatic Tur-
kew. lying eighty-three miles south
east Of Erzerum and Ahlat. The pur-
suit Of the Turkish forces who re
treated from Erzerum is being CON
tinued and the Russians have taken
prisoners what remained of the Thir-
ty-fourth Turkish division, with a
large quantity Of war supplies.
An air raid by a squadron of Ital-
ian machines against Laibach, cap
ital or Carniola, Austria-Hungary is
officially reported from Rome. Bombs
were dropped on the town and they
are thought to have done consider
able damage. Austrian %aeroplanes
assembled for the purpose Of driving
off the raiders, and six Of them sur
rounded one of the Italians and
brought him to earth.
The Russians are following mp with
yigor their recent success i'm Turkish
Armenia. Constantinople reports a
reverse for the British i'm Mesopo-
tamia. while London announces the
completion OF the conquest OF the
Kamerun, the important German col
ony i'm western equatorial Africa.
The immense forces massed in the
European war are just now compare
lively inactive.
The Russians meanwhile are active
along the Black sea coast and have
recently reported a landing on the
Armenian littoral, fifteen miles east
of Trebizond, which city is considered
one of the next objectives Of the Rus
sian land forces, by a march of about
100 miles northwest from Erzerum.
The completion of the Kamerun
conquest by the Franco-British forces
was effected with the capture of Mora
a position i'm the northernmost sec
tion Of the colony. the last held by
the Germans. Their southern forces
have recently retreated over the Dor
der into Spanish Guinea, where they
were informed. The entire %protecto-
rate of 191,130 square miles and a
population OF 2,540,000, including
about 1000 whites, has thus been
wrested from German control, after
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having been begun i'm the spring of
1915.
No very recent British report OF
the Mesopotamian operations is al
hand, but Constantinople announces
that when a British force down the
Tigris from Kut-el-Amara, where
Gen. Townsend's army is bottled up.
tried to cross the west bank OF the
river, il was defeated in a three-honi
battle and fell back TO its second line
positions, leaving a number OF dead
The defeat of a Russian force
which attacked khengayar, south o.
Hamadan, far across the Persian Dor
der. is also reported by the Turkish
war office, which declares the Rus
slams lost heavily. From the Franco.
Belgian front come reports OF impor-
tant troop movements behind the
German lines, but no news of fight
ing on an extensive scale in any see
tor. The British apparently are con
tinuing their efforts TO regain their
recently lost trenches southeast o.
Ypres, Belgium. but Berlin, in an.
nouneing the second British attack a
this point within two days, declares
that ii was fruitless.
Mining operations, artillery en-
fragments, small raiding expeditions
and aerial bombardments make III
the list of the other activities in this
war area, except a minor and unsue
cessful attack by the Germans neal
Blangy, in the Artois district, an
nounced from Paris.
A Shanghai dispatch brings the
news that the American steamer
China. just out of Shanghai for SaI
Francisco, was stopped by a British
auxiliary cruiser and thirty-eigh
Il Germans taken off.
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