The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-02
Important
News Events
of the World
Summarized
European War News
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European, War News
Tho baltic of Verdun continues with
growing intensity. 1t extends over a
front of twenty-five miles and seven
Germany army corps (28O,OOO mem
are engaged. This announcement
was made officially by the Paris war
Office. More than six miles of French
trenches were captured. The allies
lost more than 5000 prisoners. The
French evacuated the village OF
Haumont
Addressing the duma In Russia
Foreign Minister Sazonoff reviewed
the war situation in most optimistic
way, although he declared it was
more difficult now than ever before
to foresee the end of the world
struggle.
A dispatch received in London from
Santa Cruz, Teneriffe Canary Is
lands), says the British steamer West
burn has put in there for repairs, fly
irg the German flag and with prize
crew. The officer is believed to be-
long to the German raider Moewe.
There are 2O6 prisoners, taken from
various British vessels, on the West
burn.
The entire crew Of the Zeppelin air
INV
near Brabant-le-Roi, twenty-five in
number, persisted, according to a
Havas dispatch to Paris from Bar-le-
Due.
According to special dispatches to
London from Petrograd the Turks are
said to be evacuating Trebizond.
The Germans have penetrated the
first line French trenches over front
of 800 yards approximately half a
mile) in the forest Of Givenchy, in
Artois, but were later expelled from
the position. Official admission of the
German success in Artois was made
by the war Office at Paris.
German newspapers print dispatches
from Italy saying that Japanese fleet
has arrived safety in the Mediter-
ranean sea, together with great num-
Der of aircraft.
German naval aeroplanes attacked
the allied aerodrome at Fumes, south
east Of LaPanne, it was official an
nounced at Berlin. All the German
machines returned safely to their
base.
An official statement issued at Lon
don says: IAN attack on the Ger
man depots at Don was made by 26
of our aeroplanes. Extensive damage
was done to the stores and railways"
In raids over the province of Brescia
and toward Milan, Austrian aero
planes killed four persons and
wounded five. Only slight damage
was done, says dispatch from Rome.
An entente allies submarine passed
through the Dardanelles, reached the
Bosporus and torpedoed one tug and
six transports laden with munitions,
according to an Athens dispatch to
London.
The British conquest of Kamerun
is now complete, it was officially an
nOunced at the colonial Office in Lon
don. The German stronghold at Mora
has just been captured.
The American ship China, which left
Shanghai, China, for San Francisco,
was held up on the high seas by
British auxiliary cruiser and 80 Ger
mans were taken off.
Tho Russians have occupied Wilde
(Widje) in the Caucasus and pressed
forward ten or twelve miles westward.
On the left flank, after the occupation
OF Kolp, the Russians pushed on to
Mush and Achlat From Kolp to Mush
they fought several battles and occu-
pied Mush by storm. The thirty-fourth
division of the Turkish army was cap-
tured
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