Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-07-25
European War News

Again the crown princes infantry
IegiOns flung themselves reckIessly
against the French lines on the Aisne.
Again they were cut up and thrown
back by the French fire and in hand-tO-
hand fighting. "The ground in fornt of
our lines" says the Paris war office,
''was covered with dead and bears wit
ness to the violence of the battle and
the sanguinary defeat of the enemy"
German troops have pushed through
three strong Russian zones of defense
between the Sereth and ZIota Lipa riv-
erS, in eastern Galicia, according to the
official statement issuer by the Ger
man army headquarters staff at Berlin.
The German reichstag at Berlin has
voted without discussion the thirdread-
ing of the bill providing for a war
credit of 100000 marks equivalent
before the war to about So, ,0O0000).
The minority against the measure was
made up of independent socialists.
An attempt to assassinate War Min
lister KerenSky was made at the town
of POlOtsk, according to a PetrOgrad
dispatch. A shot fired at the minister
missed him. Kerensky had personally
led his troops in an assault which re-
suited in the capture of the fortress of
SIS. Peter and Paul from the Petrograd
rioters.
An official announcement issued by
the navy department at The Hague
says the British attack on German
steamers July Is occurred within
Dutch territorial waters.
Arrangements have been completed
at Tokyo for the flotation of a $685.
100000 French loan, to be used in the
payment of Frances war purchases in
Japan. It is understood that these
amount to more than $2O,OOO,OOO.
Five French vessels, three of them
more than 1000 tons in size and two
less than 1,600 tons, were sunk by
submarines during the past week, the
admiralty at Paris announced.
Doctor MichaeliS, the new imperial
German chancellor, in his address to
the reichstag Thursday afternoon, de-
clared his adhesion to Germany's sub
marine campaign, asserting it to be a
lawful measure, justifiably adopted,
and adapted for shortening the war,
says d Copenhagen dispatch.
London dispatch says fleet Of IL
small German vessels yentured forth
from Rotterdam in an attempt to run
the British blockade. A powerful Brit
sh mosquito" flotilla lay in wait for
them out in the North sea. This is
what happened to the Teuton ships:
-Four sunk, four captured, five strand
ed one wrecked, two fled back, badly
damaged by gunfire, total, sixteen.
One fled back and reached shore I'M
harmed.
British armOred motor detachmentS
are taking part in the Russian offensive
in Galicia, according to semiofficial in
formation received from PetrOgrad by
the Russian embassy at Washington.
Official announcement is made at
Paris that the United States transport
service is taking over control Of the
French railroad lines from the port
bases to the permanent camp and the
front Tracks are being laid and sid
ings enlarged.
Berlin reports that the German
crown prince, who has been in that
city in connection with the political
crisis, departed for the western front.
It is reported in an Exchange Tele-
graph dispatch from Lausanne that
no more Zeppelins are being construct
ed at Friedrfchshafen.
A Rome dispatch received in official
Italian circles at Washington declares
the kaiser is gradually turning his
power over to the German crown
prince and intimates the change In
government in Germany is preliminary
to a peace move.
The Galician town Of KaIusz which
the Russians captured last week, has
been evacuated by the under the
powerful cOunter-blows Of the Germans
and AustrO-Hungarians, the German
war Office at Berlin announces.
The great German Industrial town of
Essen, where the Krupp gun works are
located, was raided again by allied air
men. This information was contained
In a dispatch from Amsterdam. The
telegram added that the b0mbsrdment
was followed by tremendous exDlO-
SiOnB.
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