Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-02-15
WESTERN From |
THE Scene OF
BIC ENGAGEMENT
Big Guns Roar necessarily Tor
Days, With Infantry in Hand
to Hand Struggle.
MANY BATTLES FOUGHT
BETWEEN THE AIRMEN
Russian Fleet Is Active in Black
Sea; Turkish Coast Batter
les silenced.

ern fighting front is the scene of an
engagement. At some points the guns
have been roaring necessarily for
days. The infantry has been engag.
ed in hand to hand struggle: gren.
ade fighting and mining operations
have played prominent parts in the
battle, while air men have fought
each other, and have been cannonad.
ed from below by air craft guns.
The Germans followed up their re.
cent success in Champagne by the
capture of an additional half mile of
French trenches around Tahure, in
that district, and their artillery bonn.
bardments in the neighborhood of
Massiges and Navarin have been an
swered in time by the French.
On the north of Soissons, around
Terny, and along the river Aisne, the
Germans started an infantry attack.
but the French put it down with their
guns and rifles.
TO the south of the Somme, the
Germans endeavored to surround out.
post trenches, but desisted under
heavy fire of the French.
Seventeen Air Fights.
Seventeen fights in the air is the
record of Sunday reported officially
by the British, along their lines in
FLANDERS. In addition, there has been
great activity south Of Labasse1 canal,
where the Germans exploded seven
mines.
In Albania, the Arzen river, which
runs westward across central Alba
MIA and empties into the bay of Du.
razzo has been reached by the AUS
trian vanguard, according to Vienna.
The Bulgarans have occupied Ell Ba
Sen, an important town in Central
Albania.
Visits Francis Joseph.
King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, Wen.
ma reports, has arrived to visit EN-.
peror Francis Joseph. This would
seem to set at naught unofficial re.
ports that Bulgaria has asked the En-
tente allies for separate peace.
No Call Issued.
An official proclamation calling up
the remaining single men under the
Derby plan and the military service
act was posted today.
Secretary Suicides.
Chevalier Raberto Centaro. fist
secretary of the Italian embassy at
London and formerly second secre-
tary of the italian embassy at Wash.
ington, was found dead in a West
End hotel today. A revolver lay be'
side the body.
To Increase Duty. Z
The New Zealand government has
recommended that so per cent duty
extra be levied on all German goods
after the war. n, A
American 10 Released.
Harry j. Backer of New Orleans
who had been detained by the Brit
ish authorities for two months after
having been taken from liner ut
Gibraltar, has been released as re.
suit of the American representations.
The American embassy has finally
succeeded in having recognized its
contention that valid passport Is the
only evidence necessary to establish
citizenship.
The British naval authorities have
been instructed that a naturalized cit.
izen need not present his naturaliza-
tion papers.
Russian Fleet Active.
A semi-oficial statement issued to.
day concerning the recent activities
of the Russian Black Sea fleet says:
"wednesday and Thursday several
vessels fought successfully with Tur.
kish coast batteries near Vitzeh, be.
tween Cape Taros and Noronieit
(Trebizond) reducing four Turkish
batteries. They captured q Turkish
sailing ship with crew Of Is men,
and sank eight supply ships
Three Warships Lost.
Warships of three warning powers
have been sunk, according to news
and official announcements
today.
The three ships lost are:
British cruiser, Arethusa, which
struck mine today of the east coast
Of England, and is total wreck. Ten
persons were drowned.
French cruiser, Admiral Harner.
sunk by q submarine on the Syrian
coast.
German gunboat, Hedwig von WIS.,
man, reported sunk OF Albeftaillo
Lake Tanganyika, Africa, in . com
bat with Belgian forces.
Two British merchantmen also have
been lost.
The admiralty's announcement tha4
the Arethusa had struck . mine anA
probably was a wreck, brings Wt1o.
spread regret as the cruiser W. 80
of the most popular ships IN the aGvI
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