The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-07-28
Believe U-LINER
BREMEN is SUNK
Germans Admit New Losses in
VO|hynia.
TEUTORS LOSE THIRD OF ARMY


in Riga Sector, on Galician Border
and Within Three Miles of Hungary.
Cossacks Penetrate 80 Miles into
Franz Jcsef's Empire.
WASHINGTON. = 1t is believed
in diplomatic circles here that the sub
marine mere hartman Bremen, sister
ship Of the Deuthschland, has been
destroyed by British war vessels or
that some accident has happened to
her, whcn will prevent her from
reaching pot. u German circles it is
thought t.o Vessel has been destroyed
by the D.it.Sh.
LONDON, ENG.-Smashing gains
by the RL.5,,,-l3 IN the Riga sector,
where they broke the German line on
a thirty-mi,e front, and a further adj
vance south of Berestchk, Volhynia,
where they tore new gap in General
Won Linsingen's line, marked the day
as one of unprecedented reverses for
the Teutons on the eastern front.
Berlin admits the power of the Slav
onslaught and announces the penetra-
ton of Won Linsingen's lines cover a
small sector" Absolutely no details
as to the extent of the Russian gains
are forthcoming from German head
quarters. The Russian war office also
was silent on the details of the new
offensive, but this silence is interpre-
TOD 6IIn f0 a
spectacular nature Of the advance,
which will not be described in detail
until the captured positions are or
ganized and consolidated.
Teuton Loss Is $4,000
According to a dispatch from Copen-
hagen, the Petrograd correspondent of
the newspaper POlitiken estimates
that General Won Linsingen's German
army, which has been bearing brunt
of the Russian assaults on the Lipa
River in Voihynia, has lost $4,000 men,
or one-third of the whole force. 1t is
further reported from Petrograd that
the main Russian forces fighting in
the southern Carpathians are now on
" thee miles from the Hungarian
frontier.
Berlin Admits Line Pierced.
BERLIN. = Russian troops sue.
ceeded in penetrating the German
first line on a small part of the front
defended by the troops under COM
mand of General Won Linsingen, &C.
cording to the official statement IS.
sued by the German army headquar-
tiers staff
Repuse Russians in VoIhynia.
BERLIN. = Teutonic troops on
the southern Volhynian front have
made a successful stand against Rus
sian attacks in the Berestechk sector
close to the Galician border, says an
official statement issued by the Wen
ma war office, under date of July %.
Just Beginning Says AIexieff.
LONDON, ENG.-The Times CORE
spondent at Russian headquarters
quotes General Alexieff, chief of the
Russian staff as saying that the en-
of their successes.
"What has already been done on the
Anglo-French and Russian fronts"
said General Alexieff, is merely the
beginning. This is the forty-eighth
day of the Russian offensive and
there is another considerable period
of tolerable weather before us. The
most interesting and profitable part
of our work is still ahead.
"My confidence is based on two
fold foundation: first, the allies are
advancing simultaneously and the en-
envy is no longer able to fight us
piecemeal as last year; second, tn
Germans have used up their resery es.
'More0ver the internal situation in
Germany is decidedly critical. All
sources of information concur that dis
orders have broken out in every quar-,
ter of the German empire"
Cossacks 80 Miles into Hungary.
A dispatch to the Morning Post from
Budapest, dated July 10, says:
Some Cossack attachments sue
ceeded in crossing into Hungary, Gre
ating a panic throughout the frontier
towns ami villages and causing thou
sands of refugees to swarm down on
to the plains. The Russians penetrat-
ed about thirty miles, then rapidly
withdrew, fighting continuously with
attachments Of gendarmes.
Correspondents explain the panic
of the populace by saying that doz-
en- Cossacks are sufficient to frighten
and put to flight 100000 women and
children"