St. John's Daily Star, 1915-08-14

              the st john's daily star newfoundland volume 1 saturday august 14 1915 no 99 make effort to capture kovno city yon hindenbure leads german for ces in attempt to drive the rus sians from kovno which commands the vilna-petrograd railway russians fighting hard to retain this position in the nortli the russians have checked ancj in some sections pressed back german forces retreat in warsaw section / v \ jondon august 14.—field marshal " j yon hindenburg has personally t iken command of the german army it tacking ko\no according to the lat i t german ofhcial report and made further progress in the fighting against russians in that region 1 he selection of germany's national here for the duty of capturing the fortress of kovno which stands be tween the germans and vilna-warsaw pclrograd railway is an indication oi the importance which the germans general staff attaches to this opera tion holding both positions ihe news that civilians h<?ve com icnccd io kovno as well as vilna led lo the belief m many quarters that the russians had no hope of holding them now however they are fighting rd to retain both cities and the i laims of the russians repulsed the if attacks except at one point tere a dcpserale artillery engage ment is in progr^jss buelow held up further north between poniewesch ! dvmsku where yon bue - a week ago was edvancing rapid toward the railway the germans pparently have suffered a setback russians now speak of pressing and dec , re they have rcoccu ! the town olrtoviny which is con sly west of the point lo which germans had penetrated south of riga also the germans arc o be no more than holdinig their so that the task of advancing is pctrogjad seems to be de ng very slmly russ retreat here n the other hand the germans nue lo drive the russians north and east of warsaw with the ipture of sicdlec within short dis ■ of the btig river one of the main oris of the brest litovsk line it war believed the russians or y intended to held but which german offensive in the northeast • prevent s icld marshal yon mackcnzen who miands the germans in the south cast between the wieprz and bug again is reported to have been held up by russian counter-attacks abandon brest-litovsk military circles declare that if he is not farther south than he was a week ago he certainly is not farther north and consider it hardly likely that grand duke nicholas will try to hold the brest-litovsk front the german crown prince contin ues his attempts to pierce the french line in the forest of argonne negptiations between balkan states are proceeding but thus far there is no sign of any agreement grand duke too elusive russian armies extricate themselves from the trap in which the ger mans tried to enclose them enemy at standstill in the baltic • petrograd august 13.—the rus sian armies have steadily extricat ed themselves from warsaw in which the germans tried to enclose them and are now stubbornly opposing the ger man advance toward bialsctok on s line seventy miles eact of warsaw on both sides of the railroad between the polish capital and bislcstok the baltic german campaign ap pears to be at a standstill with the ivussians astride the highway between vitkomir and poniewesch threatening communications between the invaders armies the germans are approaching near er to kovno they are pounding the position with their heavy artillery guns to which russian artillery is replying frequently ■ — ■ austrian u boat sunk in adriatic officers and crew were saved and made prisoners rome august 13.—the minister oi marine tonight made public the fol lowing official statement yesterday morning in the lowcj adriatic the austrian submarine u-3 was sunk the second officer and eleven mem bers of the crew were saved and made prisoners « — ■ — germans sink osprey woman among victims london august 13—an announce ment was made today of the sinking of the british steamers osprey and summcrficld and the norwegian steam cr aura the chief engineer mate and mate's wife of the summerficld were drowned al others on board the three vessels were landed mending the wounded and keeping the well in fighting shape i british red cross physician placing a splint on an arm that has been shot through the muscles belc w the shoulder in the smaller picture is a red cross dentist treating a soldie vs teeth as soundness op teeth is an essential to a fighting man's efficiency roumania stands pat in spite of the fact that the germans threaten to boycott their goods roumanians refuse permit germany transport rights on munitions london august 14 the daily telegraph has received from bucharest the following despatch roumama has replied to t!:c ger man threatened prohibition of roum anian imports by removing all roum anian restrictions on the export of grain and reducing her export duties prompt action to stimulate export vv?.s made necessary by the fact thai it was impossible to find storage foi jic new crops on account of the un opened balance of last year's har vest unless germany's threatened boy cott is carried out it is hoped exports vill proceed henceforth at the rate.of six hundred cargoes a day there is no indication of roumania yielding to the german demands for the transit of munitions . ■ ■ ——— russians report some successes claim to have repulsed germans in several sections petrograd august 14 an official communication says in the region southeast of mitau the germans have been driven back by our troops be yond the river in the course of the enemy's retreat we made prisoners in , the direction of jacobstadt dvinsk and vilkomir we have also continued to press the enemy over coming his desperate resistance *. » . swedish steamer ashore likely be a total loss london august 13.—the swedish steamer kiruna from philadelphia tc stockholm is ashore at skerries island sixty miles west of liverpool despatches to lloyds said that in all probability she would be a total loss child fell five stories but recovery is certain boston aug 14.—margaret polo five years old will live in spite of her fall from the top of a five storey build ing a distance of 65 feet she sus tained a fractured skull but physici ans say recovery is certain try to gain by peace what he essayed by force washington aug 14.—dr bobo former haitian revolutionist has given up his rebellion ordered his gen erals to disarm and announced him self as candidate for president charge d affaires davis at port au prince has reported to the state department villa massing his troops ' decisive battle expected washington aug 14 gen villa is massing forces at torreon for what state department representatives re porting to'headquarters declared prom ised to be the decisive battle of the mexican struggle * holland preparing make move mew york aug 14.—reports are current here that an enormous war order for holland has been placed in this country through the banking house gf harvey fisk and sons coupled with this report was another that holland was preparing to enter the european consicl and soon will cast in her lot with tho allies dissensions due treaty bulgarian newspaper claims that the balkan dissensions are caused by the treaty of bucharest which must be annulled to promote unity sofia august 14.—the newspaper echo de bulgarie in an editorial on the anniversary of the treaty of bu charest which the paper says has been disastrous not only to bulgaria but to all the balkan states declares that until this stumbling-block is removed from the path of the balkan peoples there will be neither peace tranquil ity or security in the peninsula the paper speaking of the condi tions for joining the entente allies holds that a balkan entente is not possible unless this treaty which it asserts violates the racial rights of the interested nations is annulled call halt in advance budapest report says that the austro germans will content themselves with driving russians from fort resses they now hold budapest august 14 all signs in dicate that the austro-german armies wih not follow up their advantages any further than the second line of the russian defences after the fall of the russian fortresses but will reor ganize themselves behind warsaw and await further developments there strengthening anoj rebuilding the de fences behind them this theory is not only borne out by the fact that any further advance would be suicidal owing to the marsh es but also by the statement of gen eral marwitz commander of the tenth german army corps who is under going a cure in hungary at present planning the disposal of territory uncaptured lugano switzerland aug 14.—1n the russian province of kovno the germans are distributing phamplets an nouncing that a pew independent kingdom will be formed out of the captured rusian territory with war saw the probable capital prince joachin sixth son of the kaiser is to rule the new kingdom neutrality violation j norworjian government contends that german submarine sunk tha british auxiliary cruiser in her territorial waters london august 14.—reuters tele gram co has received the following despatch from chrlstiania the british auxiliary cruiser india was sunk by a german submarine in norwegian territorial waters acccrd ng to the contention of the norwegian oovcrn:nc:it it is officially announced that iust as norway previously insisted that westfjord in its entirety is norwegian territorial waters the goverrnrreirt has on the occasion of the torpdeoing of the india informed germany that westfjord from time immemorial has been regarded as belonging to nor wegian sea territory this was officially the case with that p.'.rt of the fjord in which the india was attacked » g can't explain cancellation some mystery about the refusal of u s wheat i ondon aug 14.—n0 explanation of the reported cancellation of ord ers of wheat from america by the en tente allies have-sb far been obtainable here persons connected with the wheat ex change professed ignorance of the sub ject but it was suggested by those in touch with the market that the report if correct might be connected with the fact that the india wheat crop was much larger and better quality than anticipated british steamer jacona is sunk by submarines london august 13th.—the british steamer jacona 3000 tons engaged in trans-atlantic trade has been sunk the captain and nine members of the crew were rescued » — » german losses in the war total 2,178,683 to date london aug 14.—german losses to date total 2,178,683 acording to the berne correspondent of the mor ning post the latest casualty lists give the to tal prussian losses at 1,641,569 and of losses for the bavarian saxon and wurtenburg troops 537,114 got what didn't expect when opened the box new york aug 14.—youthful elr wood kohlmann found a box of funny looking objects in his grandfather's safe elwood began investigating with a pen-knife result—elwood lost two eyes and three fingers percussion caps i . ■•—■ — ■ ——— messrs f woods j mccrath vnd j mac donald who were fishing along the line returned by today's with good catches read the daily star turks grow desperate retirement of yon saunders com mander-in-chief of turkey's forces interpreted as dictating that allied success on gallipoli is at hand jjhw york aug 14—a cable to the * tribune from lugano says the wife ans family of yon der goltz pasha reqjganiser of the turkish army passed though bucharest tuesday from con stantinople bound for berlin this is considered a sign that he be lieves the position of the turks des pesate the substitution of the grand duke mecklenburg for liman yon sanders as iommander-in-chief of the troops at gajjlipoli is called another proof of dis sensions in the german staff at con stantinople i •-•-« submarine victims for week nineteen shipping total 1396 small percentage of british shipping destroyed by german u-boats london august 13.—the press bureau announces that during the week ending august 11th german submarines sank 2 merchant ships of a total tonnage of 5371 seventeen fishjing vessels totalling 1270 tons kpuring that period 1396 vessels ar rived at or sailed from british ports .« ■ german attacks in west are repulsed by french paris august 13.—the french war of|cc this afternoon gave out a re poft as follows in the artois district a german rt tacit last night to the north of t!:t chateau of carlcul was easily checked m argonne the germans late yc icrpay afternoon renewed their attac':t in he section between the road from birtjarville to vienne lcchatcau ar.c 1 the ravine ol lc houlette they were repulsed after a very spirited fight in which hand grenades ainjl bombs were used slothing to report from the remain der of the front ■ on i t'hc ssv riorizel sails this after noon taking:—c s and mrs hene 11 bishop miss e mimcy mrs pip py m byrne r h ross d mcßac mius walts d p osmond miss j forward and 2 steerasre hun airmen murder six zeppelins raid east coast of great britain and kill four men and two women—all civilians—with bombs casualties total twenty-one london august 13.—two zeppelins li .•■■■" visited the east coast last night be tween 9.30 and 11.45 p.m dropping incendiary and explosive bombs at various places resulting in the follow ing casualties dead four men and two women injured three men elev en women and nine children all were civilians fourteen houses were seriously dam aged the zeppelins were engaged at some points but succeeded in getting away from our aircraft patrols one zep pelih v/as probably damaged by the nobile anti-aircraft section on monday night zeppelins flew over the english coast and with their bombs killed 14 persons and wound ed 14 others these raids mark a renewal of zep pelin attacks on england after an in terval of several weeks the last raid with the exception of a miner attack on harwich early in july was on june 18 when 16 persons were killed and 40 injured in all there have been nearly a score of these attacks resulting in the death of more than one hundred per sons ■ «» • put 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