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TH E WAR LAST WEEK
SUVIC BOST CRUSH AUSTRIAN
CENTRE IN Bid DEFEAT
IS YIELNNt RICH RETURNS
LINE MAY BE WITHDRAWN
JLmwons of Itoevnt Naval Haul#—
lAa.ssia 1U«1«I1dk for I)o*itru<'tlon of
Auatrloa Armlos —^I'Vanro and
Italy (Jot Help From Kaatern Ally.
NEW russun offensive
dently been holding Lh« amthcia
part of the . Kiiaalaa linen with the
■r :<a awnher ut .oMnu * _
rled bj an army. ' -—— . ‘ '
A readjiwtinent, therefore, of the Movement by Hlavu In Volhynla and
entire Auatrlan force would have to ...
(Jalarla Heeulta in Capture
AOUUIIT BUT WILSON
12-INCH NAVAL SHELLS
of 30,000 Men.
I>e made, precedtHl, of courae, by a
retirement. Tliltt would e^poee Uie
right wing of the (Jerman army to a
flank attack, mo that, to avoid Much , __
. t ontinulnR their offensive move-
a.rh«re U, Smov^t t 1 r n 00 i.° 1 Sird a ^ t Ga k Cia 'l RU8 '
York Time. Kxpert Po.nU Oui\ ^^’'•^verTaTe’Yhey*^ ^ at “ The"
successful, and it seems that they are
making this as their prime object.
Reports which have sp far reached
us are' in a measure Indefinite. In
few casps have the names of towns
been mentioned, so that there is no
PRE TT ENT HAS IT ALE HIS WAY
IN COMING CONVENTION
RUNNING MATE IN DOUBT
As last week's review was •’being i W ay of lining up the forces exactly.
The main effprt, however, seems to
bo concentrated In the region of the
Volhynian triangle, the vertices of
which are the three fortified points
of Lutsk, Dubno, and Rovno. Before
the Russian movement started, the
Austrians held Dubno and Lutsk, and
were some thirty-odd miles Inside the
area of the triangle and controlled It
absolutely.
The offensive was along the entire
line from the Pripet marshes to Bes
sarabia. The Russian plan seeds to
be to hold the right and left wings
of the Austrian army In place by
sharp attacks while their main effort
is concentrated In the centre. In this
way the Austrians are unablfe to send
any assistance to the more seriously
threatened' part of their ,Ine without
dangerously (weakening the flanks
and giving the Russians an oppor
tunity to break through. I
There does not appear to have
been so far any determined effort to
carry the line of the Stripa River in
Galicia, although the efforts of the
Russian holding force have obtained
a secure footing on the west bank at
certain points.
Along the Styr the same general
situation prevails. It has been cross
ed in some places, and the Austrians
have, as a consequence, been forced
to take new positions, but as a whole
the line of the Styr still seems to^be
in Austrian possession. In the cen-
Irtv however, the Russians have
made giant strides. In four dayH’
flglitlng Jliey- have .advanced against
Written, the news of the great naval
attic in the Nprth Sea arrivou. It
fas hoped’that by tae time another
reck had passed, accurate details of
his fight would have bdfen furnished
• n sufficient quantity to permit the
expression of an opinion as to Just
what happened. It Is unfortunate,
however, that because of the conflict
ing: c'alms of Great Britain and Ger
many we are as far removed from
All ability to state anything positive
ly as we were last week.
Certain facts, however, stand out
elcariy. The 'first is that the Ger
mans are admitting new losses, and
that, although through admirable
press work they have received all
the acclaim that conies from a de
nuded victory, they have in reality
won no such victory. When the final
truth does come out, if ever, the Ger
man losses will in all probability
prove ns great as those of England.
Gerrhany has now said officially,
for Instance, that the battle cruiser
l^atxow was sunk, but that the gov
ernment had concealed the loss for
military reasons. The chief of the
sudmirnlty staff pave as his reason
for now disclosing it that it was
necessary in order te correct the
Raise statements of England regard
ing what the real German lossies
were. The tardy admission, however,
proves nothing as to the correctness
or UnrorrertnesH of the British claim.
•. does cast a shadow of doubt, how-
rer, over the accuracy of Germany’s
Imitted losses.
No matter whether the British ton—j *
4 Vi *■ a* * *
Austrian opposition almost ten miles
a day. Their effort so far has been
ago lost was greater or less than
At of Germany. th« to- mnrt still "'■'7 '"'V BO ';‘ r n “ s oee "
'TWiiTAn s “tTerinany's navy rTwtTy geMufSlYy along fheTIne oT
stand any such to«r-»r ThaTr^ •'“Wrogd mtrrrtnp from KtireTto^
tho British have admittedly 1 [f orn P> as I . , hav f “ 1( L at
tom. ted on It. If It was . German . K ? ,rc1 ' The town of Lutsk has been
victory. «* few more stu b victories and and the Itussiana are moving
th«- Gentian fleet will have ceased to ‘•• re< 'tly and rapidly against Dubno.
eat*. Itrittsh control of the mo** has | The Austrians at. presenj hold
not l*een Impalied, her rtpnpleto lino between Lutsk nn()—Dubnp, the
dunilnntlnn of neutral us well as Ger-i principal elements of which’are thfe
man shipping lias not been affected. Ixtwer Styr and the Ikwa, a small
At th« same time, it does not y.et branch of the Styr ^Jiat flows by the
appear Pffat the North Sea fight was latter town. LutskT^iwever, Is on
•aything that tho British may feel the west bank of the Styr. so there is
also captured thirty guns and
enormous quantity of booty, w h
The army of Oen. TechitiK$i
alone, operating in the direction of
Csernowltz, Bukowina, tho statement
adds, overwhelmed tho Austro-Hun
garians and took eighteen thousand
prisoners.
Since the present offensive was
started a week ago Saturday, the
Russians have taken about one hun
dred and. eight thousand prisoners.
The text of the statement follows:
“Our offensive in Volhynla, Gali
cia and Bukowina, ol tained fresh
successes yesterday. The enemy
armies continued to suffer enormous
losses in prisoners alone.
“The fierce attacks of our troops
are throwing into pur hands thou
sands upon thousands of prisoners
and- booty of all kinds, the exact es
timation of which is as yet impos
sibly.
“For Instance, in a single sector
on the enemy front we raptured
twenty-one searchlights, two con
voys, twenty-nine field kitchens,
forty-seven trains of machine guns,
twelve thousand poods of barbed
wire (a pood is equivalent to
thirty-six pounds), one thousand
concrete planks, seven million
cubes of concrete, ten thousand
|mmh!s of coal, enormous depots of
ammunition and quantities of arms
and other material.
“In another sector we captured
thirty thousand rifle cartridges
three hundred boxes of machine gun
cartridges, two hundred boxes of
hand grenades, one thousand rifles,
four machine guns, two range finders
and a Norton portable pump for the
extraction.of drinking water,
“The capture of such enormous
war materials prepared by the ene
my for various operfrthrns- afftrrritq aTiVvur
proof of how- opportune was—our
Several Aspire R) be on Ticket With
Him—Other Decisions jin Needed
j h - v • - , > '■sT
4 ’ ty A Jet Manager und to- Change
• Rules—Movement on Foot to Let
Majority Vote.Nominate.
Although.President Wilson isn’t in
St. Ivouls an dthere is no chance of
his being there in the course of the
convention, the shadow of the chief
executive falls long across St. Louis,
the convention city.
His figure towers over all the pre-
convention activities. Democrats are
proqd of thlelr president, and all of
course believe he will lead them to
victory again.
Every one of the 1.088 delegates
who will gather in New Convention
hall on Wednesday are for Wilson.
Some ary instructed for him and the
rest ate for him anyway. There is
nobody else in sight. “Not a “pep”,
has been hfard from anybody else.
Such Democratic harmony is un
usual. it has not been seen since
1900. The Democrats are properly
proud of their harmony.
But there are at least twor lively
questions which will come before the
convention. One is the vlce-presL
dency and the otlier is the two-thirds
rule.
In Republican conventions only a
majority (more than half) of the
delegates is necessary to a nomina
tion. The Democrats hav«-required
two-thirds or more. This has re
sulted in much longer contests on
the average in the Democratic con
ventions than in those of their chief
rivals. In 1912, for instance, Champ
Clark started with more than a igp*
jority. but lost out later.
Many argue the long contests are
a bad thing. Others, on some theory
or other, believe a change to the Re
publican rule wlll_ be. a. good, thing
dermost of the German’s three fun
nels. Our armored cruisers Defence
and Duke of .Edinbiurgh were left to
deal with two Other German light
cruisers that were sighted.
“All at^nce a fountain of water
rose twenty yards ahead of us and
we then knew that we had to deal
with something bigger than light
cruisers. The shells of\ at least
twelve-inch calibre fell ahead of the
Defence and three seconds later a
salvo cut her in two amidships and
she crumpled up and sank. The
Black Prfticve was the next to go.
Two great shells carried away her
funnels and /ore turret. Then a sal
vo hit her in the magazine and she
blew up. . s
“Our turil was to come, for far
away on the horizon we could see
three tripod masts. By this time the
enemy light cruisers were burning
fiercely and had ceased to fire, but
one after another twelve-inch shells
dropped on either beam of us. At
last ttie enemy found the mark.
“The first shell smashed the motor
boat hoist into splinters. The second
bit the starboard side In line with
the turret. The third hit the quar
terdeck jut abaft the bulkhead door,
plunged down ward.and wrecked he
dynamo. The gun turrets, too, were
almost useless, as the amiyinition
hoist had gone. Another shot put
the port and starboard engine rooms
out ur hit Run
. “By half.yet -eix we-were-a- hope*-
b»i >py over. Everything point* to the
tori litat the engagement front a
Rrititli ntanttpolnt mam a Mrnteglral
MnteW. Superiority In numbers,
whether on laud or sea. Is only of
value when it is made manifest at
th« point of contact.
It would do no good, to take an
eatreme caae. to have three men to
oaf ugainHt the Germans at Soissons,
If tlif Germans had three to one
against the Allies at Verdun. The
battle apparently took place within
not more than 1f>0 miles from the
German base. If this is the case It
might naturally be wondered at that
only British cruisers were In waters
without battleships, when it was pos
sible that contact with the enemy
would be had.
The British satisfy themselves
with the statement that a victorious
lect does not run away after a fight,
'his. of course, is nonsense. If the
danger of the Austrian position being
turned from the north. / The capture
of Dubno will turn t^e other flank,
and in such a position the Austrians
will have to retire from the lower
Styr position.
The Russian offensive in ita pres
ent stage cannot be compared to any
of the offensive movementa In the
weat. It la not a question of storm
Ing a first line trench and then rest
ing. The RumaIaiis have swept
through the whole network of
It-onrhes thAt the AustrlAns liAd con
structed for several miles in rear of
their Uni's, And now have them in the
open. Nor are they giving them much
time to dig in. It la the same sort
of sweeping drive that the Germa<as
made against the Russians, Just a
year ago.
The Russians report an enormouk
number of prisoners, nearly two full
army corps, and as this article is be-
JerniAu fleet was the victor up to a the troops that could safely i»e with-
•Hals' | to in t anil then saw the Hrit- drawn hare been concentrated in
«h dreailiiituglilH coming up, a re- Trentino to break through into the
bvrnciit was the only poKsihio tiling, ' plain of Northern Italy,
ami would not change the victor to T t, e b UCP088 of t he Austrian troops
th« vanquished by any meuns. How- | n Trontino proved that a concentra
•vcx^ilm. e-ulira baUin-Ui-n»-far aH-non had boon efreclcITar greatei
h ‘‘_ Ve , . h _ e . PrP “’! anv of.the Allies knew or had
As Austria was heavily
Is most unsatisfactory and tnconclu
aiv<
'Ther most important news of tho
week, completely overshadowing the
lau.i fighting in any other territory.
imagined,
engaged on tho Isonso front these
additldnal troops could not have been
drawn from there. In fact, the Rus
sian front was the only place from
oven at Verdun, is the new Russian which they could have been drawn.
offensive. Russia lias more than
once proved to he tin' savior of the
Ku i elite, and .it seems' that she Is
•boot to play the role again. In the
early days of the war, it was Russia
who really made the battle of the
Marne possible.
Again, it was Russia who, by the
conquest of Galicia and the battles
of the Carpathian Mountains, caused
■uch a withdrawal of German troops
Austria did not have enough -men
to man the trencheb 6f the Russian
front In proper strength and carry
on an extensive offensive in Italy.
So, it was presumed, she had taken
the gamble of denuding the Russian
trenches, trusting in the Rbssian de
feat in March to discourage a fur
ther effort in this section. Also, Rus
sia was fighting desperately against
the Turks in Mesopotamia, and was
coilp.
“During yesterday's fighting we'
took am prisoners ohe general, four
hundred and nine officers and
thirty-five thousand one hundred
soldiers. We also raptured thirty
guns, thirteen machine guns and
five bomb throwers. This makes
the total trophies in the recent
operations one general, sixteen
hundred and forty-nine officers
and more than one hundred and
six thousand soldiers and one hun
dred and twenty-four guns, one
hundred and eighty machine guns
and flfty-etght Ismib throwers.”
RUSSIANS RENEW ATTACKS
ON TEUTONS IN EAST
Long Expected Move Makes Rapid
Progress, Capturing 23,000, Much
Material and Kig Guns.
fyoin the western front ns to make a | apparently making every sacrifice in
OBrJuari offensive In the west impos-1 other fields in order to maintain this
eastern army at a maximum of of
fensive powder.
Besides fhe mere matter of reliev
ing pressure pii the French at Ver
dun and the Italians in Trentino,
Ibie at a time when the Allies were
t nad need of time both to accunm-
ite a shell supply and to recruit.
knola was beaten in the end. It is
)f»r, but It took Austria and all the
It. In all that time the lines in the
west were practically free from seri
ous attack.
Now, with Italy in straits, Russia
Is again coming forward in a way
that it was not expected she could
come. Her armies from the Pripet
marshes to Bessarabia are engaged
in an occupation that was quite pop
ular in Russia eighteen months ago
-—beating the Austrians. This new
Russian movement may be an offen
sive for which the Russians may have
—and political advantages for that
matter—to be gained by a Russian
success in the field they have chosen.
These were reviewed at length in
commenting on the last Russian of
fensive. • y-.. • ’
The military objectives of tjie Rus
sian drive are essentially^A-wo. The
first is the town of Ko^el, some
thirty-two miles northw'est of the
fortress of Lutsk; the second is Lem
berg, in Galicia. Tho problem in'
i Russia, where avenues of transpor-
been preparing for a long time, and.! ?. r ® s ? 1 i^ or ' * s essent taUy a
for which they are just ready. - raUroad problerh ’ aa li ls on, y ^
through good weather conditions and , 'fornnLtensilen ® i
a sufficient accumulation, of shelLTo ^ i P n? f^warl ^ movement cap
launch. At the same time it comes so; l)e sent-forward,
opportunely that it suggests at least 1 . e • e railroad centre
effort fo relieve Italy* from the °* Pripet district. Coming in-
trevnendous pressure of the Austrian.! .• ove ^ T rom ^ ie an( * north-
offensive in Trentino. j ,ves t hre railroads from Brest-I.it-
It may, very well be, and probably ovsk, from Warsaw by way of Lublin
Is. a concrete demonstration of the a m* „ .P,' an< * a shorter road from
benefits accruing to all of the allied V 1 ® Galician boundary. Leaving
forces from the war councils that Kovel and running eastward are two
tagve been held off and on for some roads, one going Just'north of Czar
■Ninths. It certainly seems that the; torysk, and continuing on to Sarpy;
Allies are at last working together, Jhe other to Rovno through, the Vol-
tbe common good, and that.all
■ kBApbCndent action of one without
r ^wjLml-to-the onrgnrhffSTe~ased.
In March Russia started an offeo-
tve along much the same line on
ihlcb aha ta-
tesa progress waa made at lint,
J Anally ended la failure. He
but
hynian triangle.
The JarSertTn^STern Galicia From
ft several roads radiate |n all direc
tions. The most interesting In eoa-
southern v of the Volhynlaa forts, and
two email branches which do not
The long expedled general offen
sive of the Russians against the Teu
tonic allies seemingly has begun.
Both Petrngrpd and Vienna report
that the Russians are actively en
gaged over a front from the Pripet
river to the Rumanian frontier,
about two hundred and fifty miles.
The Russians are using large num
bers of guns and men an^l. according
to Petrograd, have acnieved suc
cesses on many important sectors,
.i&kjjJK-JJucicen thousand, prisoners
by Monday and many guns and de
stroying or capturing Teutonic posi
tions.
Along the Bessarabian front,
along the lower Stripa and in Vol-
hyhia the Russian attacks have been
particularly violent. In the region
of Olyfc#, in the zone of the Vol-
hynia fortress triangle, the Russian
guns have heavily shelled a front of
more than fifteen miles held by the
Austrian Archduke Joseph Ferdi
nand.
From the Pripet river southward
to the Rumanian frontier the Rus
sians, according to Petrograd. con
tinued to develop successes against
♦ he Germans and Austrians. In the
decide whether to change It or let It
stand.
The vice-president situation is all
up In the air. There is a kind of
Democratic tradition not to re-nomi-
nate a vice-president; but the friends
of Vice-President Marshall are not
going to abide by it If they can help
They are in St. Louis In force and
intend to give their man a second
term along with Mr. Wilson. They
are primed for bear with the record
of Mr. Marshall’s record as presiding
officer of the Senate and elsewhere
Another strong vice-presidential
candidate comes from Mr. Marshall’s
own state of Indiana. This is T'nited
States Senator John W. Kern.
Senator Kern Is very popular with
the labor element, having been an
attornev for several labor organiza
tions and having always supported
such labor measures as came before
the Senate. Mr. Marshall* Is also
aery popular In the. Hoosier state, so
that It is difficult to pick and choose
between them.
From the neighboring state of
Illinois looms up tha figure of Sen
ator J. Hamilton I>ewi*. as another
possible mate for Mr. Wilson. He
comes from a big state, properly sit
uated geographically to conform
with Wilson from New Jersey.* Illi
nois Is behind In electoral votes only
New York and Pennsylvania.
Mr. Lewis was elected to congress
from the state of Washington, sud
denly decided that he liked the cli
mate of Illinois better, moj»d 2.000
miles and then was elected to the
United States Senate, taking away,
this plum from Roger C. Sullivan.
Mr. •Sullivan himself is still an
other candidate for Mr. Marshall's
Job. Hjs boom is being managed by
John F. O'Malley of Chicago, Arthur
Charles of Carmi, Til.
Ex-Governor Joseph S. "Folk TcrT
Missouri is another strong contender
through his friends, for the vice-
presidency. In 1912, It will be re
membered, Mr. fcolk tried to get Mis
souri's d'eiegation for the presiden
tial nomination.
Champ Clark's friends say he does
not Besire.the honor. There has been
a little talk that William J. Bryan
will be permitted to name the vice-
presidential candidate. Mr. Bryan
the'Shettu that'would 'finlsB us when
the Warspite appeared and passed
between us and the enemy, engaging
Uie foremost battle cruiser with dead
ly effect.
“The first shot from the Warspite
Topped off'theyforemast of the lead
ing enemy cruiser. The next over
turned both the fore gun turret, and
in five minutes the enemy, vessel was
ablaze from end to end, enveloped in
a cloud of dense smoke.
“The second battle cruiser, which
had been concentrating her fire on
the Warspite, turned to starboard,
smoke belching from her funnels,
and endeavored to pick up her main
squadron. But it was not to be. Two
shells from the Warspite blew every
funnel she had to pieces. The third
made a great rent Hi her stern. The
fourth ploughed up her deck and
burs* against the foremast, bringing
it down.
“Two minutes afterward this ves
sel also was on fire and heeling over,
with the Warspite still pounding her
and ripping great gashes in her star
board side and bottom. The last we
saw of her was nothing more than a
broken hulk.”
The Warrior was towed for ten
hours and then sank.
Rear Admiral Thomas, in address
ing the men of the ^Warspite, com
plimented them on the important
part they played in tbe'battle.
ENGLAND TFLLS OF BATTLE
„ , . , , doesn’t want tbe chance himself,
fights along this front of snmfi two Q np thing j s pretty certain. Tho
hundred and fifty mile, t^ Russians v j r e.p r p S i,) en ti a i nomination will go
have made prisoners of four hundred , west of t he Alleghenies. With Mr.
and eighty oftlcers and more than , representng the East.' it is
twenty-five- thousand men and cap- cons i(i e red only fair that the Middle
(ured twenD-stnen guns and more ^ypst provide the other randidate.
than fifty marhine guns.
In tins offensive, which is declar
ed to be a • carefully cq-ordipated
movement, the Russians are stiid-to
have a plentiful supply of ammuni
tion and men^and with the roads
now in good condition their ma
noeuvres are expected to develop
swiftly. ‘ The number of Teutonic
allies facing the Russians is reported
to amount to about six hundred
thousand men. «
run beyond the Galician border.
The roads leaving Kovel and Leni-
lierg are.the lifelines of the Austrian
army -north of Galicia.'' If Kovel
falls there will be a strip or section
of line more than a hundred miles in
length without’ faiTfond fransporfh-
tinn rn a country that at this season
of the year is a tremendous marsh or
swamp, through w;liich it is almost
impossible to eonstruct road^ with
any of th.e paraphernalia usually car
ings written (Friday night) there is
no indication that .their advance has
heefl checked in the slightest degree.
Never has it'h^en more rlearlv dem
onstrafed that .no- army can he-’said
to havp obtained a'decision while its
opponent still preserves tra effective
fighting force in -the field.
Estimates German Losses.
An official British tabulation of
686, of which 734,412 represent men
killed.
Ex-Governor Martin H. Glynn, of
New York, will make the keynote
speech as temporary chairman of the
convention. It is expected his ad
dress will be along the line of his
reply to Elihu Root’s speech at the
New York State Republican conven
tion which attracted much attention.
Mr. Glynn is a powerful orator, who
can be depended upon to do justice
to the occasion. .
The DemocraRc platform to he
framed here will follow it is believed
/he general lines of the platform
’adopted by the Missouri Democrats
with several planks added. The Mis
souri platform was submitted to the
administration lender before its
adoption. President Wilson has al
ready fnishrd a tentative draft.
Peace and prosperity and “Amer-
iea First” will be the main features
of the Democratic p.latform and also
of Mr. Glynn’s address. The legis
lative record of the Wilson adminis
tration. particularly fhe Currency
bill and assertions that the admirits-
tration has been of assistance to bus
iness and labor will also be included.
Tho Monroe doctrine, as explained
b'y the president in addresses,< will
be reiterated, and stress laid on ef
forts of the government to foster
■trade and wood rela+kms with 'Sfratfc
t)nd Central America.
^'"Besides tb«» GTynh speech'the ad
dress of John W. Westcot
British Experts Say (Jerman Loss in
Ships Was Heavy.
In the absence of direct reports
from Admirals Jelllcoe or Beany
concerning the Jutland sea fight, in
terest still centers in England on the
question of the number of ships lost
by thd Germans and the Identity of
the larger vessels.
Definite evidence, it is stated in
British official tircles, has t ow been
obtained that the Gertnaji losses were
deliberately falsified by Berlin, and
that the following ships were totally
destroyed:
Two battle cruisers.
At least one, and probably two,
bittleships.
Four light cruisers.
Eight destroyers.
One submarine.
The rest of Rhe German battle
cruiser squadron may have reached
home ports, but the shipp, are all
severely damaged, it is stated, as also
were ships of the Konig class, whjch
came under the fire of part of the
British battle fleet.
duty as lie proved .when he presented
Mr. Wilson’s name to the Baltimore
convention in 1912 in an address
that captivated many of the dele
gates.
Another topic of interest is the
friendly contest for the honor of
Conducting Mr. Wilson campaign for
re-electyw chairman of the Dem
ocratic national committee.
John W. Davies, solicitor-general
of the United States, is qne of -the
men prominently mentioned for the
chairmanship. His home is in West
Virginia and he served in congress
before Mr. Wilson appointed him to
his present post.
Mr. Wilson is said to have desired
Frank L. Polk, counsellor of the
state department, but Mr. Polk de
cided he would he unable to serve.-
Fred B. Lynch, of Minnesota,
chairman of the executive committee
of the Democratic national commit
tee. has also been picked by manv as
choice fol* campaign manager. Wil
liam F. McCombs announced some
time ago that he would not serve
d gfj J '
Of thoil .«V84-AeTega!ra-io tlie con
vention, 621 were elected by direct
primary and 464. by conventions,
‘“-‘eshows will he nm hv iha
RUSSIANS CAPTURE '40,000 _•
AUSTRIANS IN THE EAST
LITTLE NEWS PERHinED
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Czar Congrathlates Brasiloff as His
New Army Sweeps Swiftly on—
Powerful fortified Positions In
Volhynia, Galicia and Bukowina,
Says Dispatches From Petrograd.
In their: new offensive
move*
British Officer Describes Effects- of
Huge Guns Upon Small Cruis
ers in Recent Fight.
A surviving officer of the British
armored cruiser Warrior, sunk in the
Jutland sea fight, tells an interesting
story of the engagement of the Brit
ish armored cruisers with the Ger
man battle cruisers and light cruisers
and a.subsequent duel fought be
tween the Warspite and big German
ships. The first German ship sight
ed by the Warrior' was a light cruiser
with three funnels, the Warrior pick
ing her up at a range of fifteen hun
dred and eighty-five yards.
“The first two shells having given
^&a a ^^o^ d ,u h ,?« .V —»
oiR and a’shell crumpled up the hih’-' more than forty thousand men. Ac
cording to the latest Russian state
ment, on the line between the Pri
pet and the Rumanian frontier,
over which the campaign is being
fought, the additional spoils in
clude seventy-seven guns, one hun
dred and thirty-four machine guns
and forty-nine bomb throwers.
With the exception of the brief of
ficial communications regarding the
now offensive movement, which ar®
bare' of details, almost, no informa-
tiop has been received in regard to
the new campaign of the Russians.
It is being conducted on a front of
more than two hundred and fifty
miles, and although it has every indi
cation of being a major operation,
carefully prepared for. the story of
the campaign thus far has been kept
from the world.
Petrograd correspondents have
been permitted to cable only a few
dispatches regarding the expected
political effects of. the move and
Bther subsidiary features. They have
been allowed to estimate the Aus
trian forces engaged, but not the
Russian, placing the former at about
six hundred thouand men.
The lack of information concern
ing this campaign probably Is due to
the policy of General Brusiloff. *the
•RtfiUdUtl ciiiiitua'nder'wn-thrs -front -ft
first acts on assuming command v as
to send the newspaper -correspohd-
ents back to Petrograd.
The oflfcial Russian report of
Tuesday stated that about twenty?
five thousand men had been taken,
so that the above report Indicates
the capture of fifteen thousand addi
tional men in'the intervening twenty-
four hours. There have been no in
dications in regard to the sections of
the front on which the principal suc
cesses have been won.
The text of the official statement
follows: “The successes of our troops
in Volhynia. Galicsa and Bukowina
are developing. The total number of
prisoners and trophies captured in
the fighting, which resulted in the
enemy being dislodged from his
powerfully fortified positions, con
tinues to Increase.
“Since the beginning of the re
cent actions until noon on Tuesday
General Brusiloff's armies have cap
tured nine hundred officers, more
than forty thousand rank^and file,
seventy-seven guns, one hundred and
thirty-four machine guns and forty
trench mortars, and, in addition,
searchlights, telephones, field kit
chens. a large quantity of arms and
war material and great reserves of
ammunition.
“A number of batteries were cap
tured intact by our infantry with ail
their guns and limbers. In fte re
cent fighting the enemy had actual
proof of the increase in our wir ma
terial. The actions have strengthen
ed .pur cpnfldoncQ. that as this ma
terial develops, the enemy’s fortified
lines will be more effectively de
stroyed.
“The valor and dash of.our troop®
wore proved by tho results achieved
in only three days’ fighting. Ilia
Majesty as supreme commander, at
ten o'clock last nigfit telegraphed
from headquarters the following des
patch congratulating the troops of
General Brusiloff on the success at
tained:
" ‘Transmit to my well beloved
troojus on the front under your com
mand the news that I am following
w ith satisfaction their ' brave deeds
and that I appreciate their bravery.
Express to them my gratitude. May
the good God assist us in driving our
enemies from our territories. J am
convinced that aVwill hold firmly
together and fight until the glorious
end for Russian arms. •
" ’Nicholas.’
“Prudence does not permit us at
present ,to divulge tire names of the
valiant batkalions which fought some
time with the loss of all their offi- .
cers. It is equally impossible'to pqn-
tish the name of the brave general
officers killed 'or wounded or the
localities where the combats occur
red.”
TORNADO KILLS HUNDREDS
Arkansas, Missouri, MisSippt and
Illinois Swept by Storm.
One hundred and seven deaths had
been reported -late Tuesday night
from the storm swept portions of
Arkansas. Missouri, Mississippi, and
Illinois, as belated reports were re-*
ceived from communities which suf
fered in* a series of tornadoes Mon
day night and early Tuesday.
A number of persons were 'unac
counted for and believed dead and
several hundred weie Injured. Ac
curate estimates of property’damage^
"ere pot available, but- all figures
ventured by property owners ran in-
to^the hundreds of thousands;
Great* Htrifc H1Y*tTtj«d.- ^
A f’errtral News dTcpetrh from Co- '
penhagen. says, that on Saturday the
(r. Wliyson for renomination is also
| awaited with sortie anticipation. Mr i
1 Westcott is an excellent man for the
end both will use great efforts to at
tempt to Insert planks In the plat
form.
J^warsETp the.na
tionality of which it was unable to
ascertain. Hundreds of bodies wore
floating around tha wreck. .