Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-07-27
BELIEVE U-LINER
BREMEN is SUNK
Germans Admit New Losses in
VO|hynia.
TEUTONS LOSE THIRD OF ARMY

TEUTOhS LOSE THIRD OF ARMY
Three Offensives Garry SIavs Forward
in Riga Sector, on GaIician Border
and Within Three Miles of Hungary.
Cossacks Penetrate so Miles into
Franz Josef's Empire.
Washington, July 26.-It is believed
in diplomatic circles here that the sub
marine merchantmen Bremen, sister
ship of the Deutschland, has been
destroyed by British war vessels or
that some accident has happened to
her, which will prevent her from
reaching port. In German circles it is
thought the vessel has been destroyed
by the British.
London, July 26.-Smashing gains
by the Russians in the Riga sector,
where they broke the German line on
a thirty-mile 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 "over a
small sector Absolutely no details
as to the extent of the Russian gains
quarters. The Russian war office also
was silent on the details of the new
offensive, but this silence is interpre-
ted here as due to the speed and
spectacular nature of the advance,
which will not be described in detail
until the captured positions are Or
gained 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 Volhynia, 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
ly thee miles from the Hungarian
frontier.
ParIit, n r. inc Diarcad
Berlin, July 26.-Russian troops sue
ceeded in penetrating the German
first line on 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.
RepuIse Russians in VoIhynia.
Berlin, July 26.-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, July 26.-The Times CORE
spondent at Russian headquarters
quotes General Alexieff, chief of the
Russian staff, as saying that the en-
tente allies are still at the beginning
of their successes.
"What has already been done on the
Ang1o-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.
Only confidence is based on a two
fold Foundations: 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 reserves
"Moreover 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 Is, says:
"Some Cossack detachments sue
ceeded in crossing into Hungary, Gre
ating a panic throughout the frontier
towns and 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