Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-01-05
news OF SEVEN DAYS
MATTERS OF NEWS
REDUCED TO PARAGRAPHS.
DOings of the World for the Past Week
Crimes. Accidents and
Disasters.
European WG9" News

The Pail Mall Gazette OF London
prints the following from its Petro-
grad correspondent: Russian joint
operations with Roumania are on the
point of beginning. Roumania will
fight with us, although not for us. Her
siding with the entente is not the re-
suit of French or English sympathies.
but an endeavor to realize the Rou-
manian dream of sovereignty over
Bukowina and Pennsylvania.
It is reported at Geneva on good
authority that Italian troops have oc-
cupied the Albanian seaport of
DurazZo.
French troops have occupied the
Turkish island Of Castelorizo (Kas-
teloryzo), in the Aegean sea, between
the island of Rhodes and the Gulf of
Adalia, according to the papers in
Paris. The possession of Castelorizo
as a naval base is characterized as in
dispensable.
An official report to Rome from
Cetinje states that the Montenegriu
army, REINFORCED by a Serbian corps,
has driven the Austrians from Mon
tenegrin territory and now have also
driven them from the Saniak. The
Austrian losses are estimated at TO-
600 men.
7roor,,oy,+o,.v information received
at London from various sources indi-
Gates that a great battle is in progress
on the southern part Of the Russian
front, the most important action for
many months.
Two Austrian destroyers have been
sunk in the Adriatic sea off Durazzo.
one by allied warships and the other
by a mine, says a dispatch from Paris.
They were the Lika and the Triglav.
The Russians are making desperate
efforts to break through the Austrian
lines between the Pruth river and the
wooded zone north of Toponitz. The
Austrian war office announced at
Vienna that five successive Russian at
tacks were repulsed.
A lively battle was fought off the
coast of Asia Minor. 20 miles east of
the Bosporus,' on the Black sea, by
three Russian torpedo boats against
two Turkish gunboats and one German
submarine. Both the gunboats were
sunk. while the Russians had no losses.
says a dispatch from Petrograd
Reuters correspondent at war head
quarters in the west telegraphs to Lon
don that the British staff is confident
the allies are now so strong in men
and munitions that they can break
through the German lines whenever
the right time comes.
Cabinet changes are expected in
London after the details of the modi-
fed form of CONSUMPTION are agreed
upon. The forecast that Ireland prob
ably would be exempt from conscrip-
ton also was confirmed
Omclal admission that the French
penetrated the German trenches at
Hartmannsweiler Kopf in the Vosges
was made by the German war office at
Berlin.
A dispatch to the Geneva Tribune
from Vienna says: Chancellor Won
Bethman-Holweg is expected in Wen
ma shortly with the full conditions I'M
der which the central powers will ac-
cept peace. The conditions will be
officially communicated to the allies"
The steamer United States, which
arrived at New York from Scandi-
navian ports, reported that on Deem
Der 13 she was stopped east of the
Shetland isles by British cruiser and
taken to Greenock for examination.
There the British removed 1861 small
parcels and $50 parcel-post packages.
The steamer was released OIL the
eighteenth.