The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-05-31
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The Italians have been driven from
their entire position on Lavarone
plateau, the Austrian war office an
nouncement says. 1t is stated that the
Italian defeat is steadily becoming
more serious. The number of ltai-
ians taken prisoner has been increased
to 1883.
French infantry stormed and cap
tured German positions in Fort Dou-
aumont after powerful artillery prep
aration. the Paris official report says.
The Germans still hold the northern
part of the fort, but a number OF prls'
oners were captured by the French.
German positions on the entire front
were captured.
Several lines of British positions on
a front Of about one and One-thlrd
miles have been captured by the Ger
mans southwest Of Givenchy En- &C.
belle, it was officially announced at
Berlin. German troops also stormed
French positions on the eastern spurs
Of Hill 304, on the Verdun front. A
thousand French soldiers were cap
tured.
German seaplanes raided the east
coast and the County of Kent. The
war Office announced that one person
was killed and two injured by German
bombs. One seaplane was destroyed.
George Boillot, French automobile
racer and aeronaut, has been killed in
q fight with five German aeroplanes.
He succeeded in bringing down one
of the German machines before bull
let pierced his heart.
Seven aeroplanes, of which two were
German and five French, we're shot
down in action on the western front
during the day. The German state
ment reports the destruction of four
French machines in a single engage
ment.
Russian troops have joined the Brit
1sh at Mesopotamia and an allied drive
on Bagdad is now believed to be i'm
minent. The Russians, after wild
and adventurous ride from Persia,
joined the column Of Gen. Sir G. Cor
ringhe, which is fighting it's way up
the Tigris toward Kut, says dispatches
to London.
The terrific German offensive west
of the Meuse which was believed to
have reached it's climax with the cap
ture of first-line trenches in the Avo-
court woods and on Hill 304, devel-
oped new violence and resulted in a
new advance Of the Germans on the
western slopes of Dead Man Hill. The
French defeat at this point is officially
admitted in the communique received
from Paris.
Domestic
Five men were shot, one seriously,
in strike at the plant of the An
sonia Manufac curing company at An
sonia, Conn.
Theodore Roosevelt accepted the
support of a committee of "a leading
Republicans who asked him at his
home in Oyster Bay, N. Y, to be
candidate for president. He indicated
that he had found the country in the
ha hol l.;
Trinidad speech, as a condition OF his
candidacy.
Rock Island arsenal is to be made
one Of the greatest munitions facto-
ries Of the country under appropria-
tons made by the house committee on
appropriations at Washington, the
plan to be perfected by the war de-
partment. A field artillery ammuni-
ton plant costing $1,25O,000 is to be
erected at this arsenal.
An absolute decree of divorce was
awarded at Saratoga, N. Y, to Mrs.
Louise Lord Caldwell, lately OF Paris
and formerly Mobile, Ala. Edward S.
Caldwell made fortune installing gas
plants in southern cities.
Jose Buenostrico and Melquaides
Chaps, Mexicans, convicted of the MUIR
der of A. L. Austin and his son
Charles, in the Mexican border raids
last fall. were hanged at Brownsville,
Tex.
The northern Baptist convention at
Minneapolis empowered a commission
to sit as court of all differences be.
tween affiliated societies and thus
bring about more effective co-opera.
ton between Baptist organizations.