St. John's Daily Star, 1915-08-10

              the st john's daily star newfoundland volume 1 tuesday august 10 1915 no 95 petrograd says russ army safe ihe russian troops are assuming their new positions without any precipitation—strength of austro german drive reported spent russ artillery causes awful havoc to enemy < nptured germans report that their armies are suffering from a short age in food supplies—kaiser's men absolutely worn out ondon aug 10.—cabling from pet rograd the correspondent of t 1 kiily telegraph says that % the views held in higher military here are well founded any danger which may have existed for the russian vis tula army is now past the troops are now taking up the new positions allot ted to them without precipitating and nt the moment their rear ruard is not threatened moreover thofrc are signs that the inmpetus of the austro-ger man attack is weakening terrible havoc there is private news from vilna where 2000 prisoners have'arrived of the fearful havoc'wrought in the ranks oi the germans by the russain artil lery at kovno prisoners taken in that battle state that lately their army has been suffering from deficiency in food and that the soldiers are worn out by continual marching and counter-march ing and some of them were so exhaust ed when they were caught that they could hardly stand upright and begged only that they might be allowed to sleep the russian positions m baltic pro vinces is now described as firm from the south-west of riga ttye enemy has 1 een driven back almost to mitau and i showing no inclination to resume the aggressive indeed it is believed to lave drawn cm his force here which consists of about a courps and a half to strengthen the impact of an attack east of ponievitch in the direction of dvintkvilna railway the battle in bis latter region still hangs in the bal ance but we are assured that the ger mans during the past twenty-four i ours for which there is no news have made no headway lost 65,000 men to the north-east of the germans lost sixty-five thousand men n killed and wounded but succeeded in capturing principal fortified posi tions of the russians the engagements in the vicinity of o\o georgievsk the despatch says have been continuous for five days and he germans have occupied the north ern portion of the defenses of the sur oundc-d fortress north of the lublin cholm railroad the battle continues to the advantage of the austrians and germans in the region of novo alendria on the vistula south of ivangorod the russians are offering fierce resistance and inflicting heavy losses on oppon ents not decisive says berlin capture of warsaw no more a com plete defeat of russia than would capture of paris signify defeat of france—simply removal of an ob stacle dotferdam aug 9—lne corres pondent of the daily news says the tone of comment by berlin newspap ers on the fall of warsaw has complete ly changed since the first announce ment of the german victory was pub lished and now they remind their read ers that the taking of the polish capit al is no decisive event the vossische zeitung says it is a great stride nearer peace which lies still far distant but no fortress not ev en paris can be looked upon as the fin al objective of the military operations a new reign of peace can flourish only upon the ruins of the enemy's ar my in the field ihe conquered vistula line became the springboard for tne attainment of his object and the moral efrect of this atest victory upon the troops will help he advmce upon an enemy whose de feat in a bloody battle alone will en ible us to pluck the fruits of a final victory just as the fall of liege and ant werp justified nobody in tninking that the war against r ranee haa been won so we must not now deceive ourselves into thinking that the taking of war saw or even fvangorod is anything but i rjearinff away of the chief obstacles with which the ivussian army has sur rounded itself mexicans clash with americans fifteen soldiers stand off sixty mexicans until help come grownsville texas aug 9—five mexican bandits one a mexican woman were kitled fighting yesterday at norias 68 miles north of here for an hour fifteen americans eight of them united states cavalry men stood off the attacks of sixty mexicans five americans were wounded three of the latter being soldiers fifteen americans were saved from death just as their ammunition gave out by the arrival of seventeen texas rangers ■ o ■ m e c robinson who had been up north for some months arrived by the sagona yesterday warsaw—as she was before russians and germans stormed her gates capture of warsaw by the cer mam ends temporarily anyway more than a century of domination by russia of the pol ish capital a city of more than 800,000 people and sometimes referred to as the paris of rus si a warsaw first came to be a city of importance as the residence of the dukes of masovia in the middle ages it became the capital of poland early in the seventeenth century supplanting cracow warsaw was lost to the poles in a great three-days battle in july 1656 when the forc es o f charles x of sweden conquered the city the troops of frederick william the great e icctor having participated in the attack i n 1702 swedish troops under charles xii again entered the city warsaw was again forced to capitulate i this time to the russians who stormed the city in 1 794 entering from the east from 1795 to 1806 the city was held by pyussia and for the following six years was ruled by ihe king of saxony as a vassal of napoleon the russians occupied warsaw again in 1313 and,made it the capital of the kingdom of poland for miny decades the poles in warsaw were restless under the rule of ihe czars plots of revolution were constantly in process of form ation a serious revolt broke out in 1830 but in september 1831 the czar's forces re-enter ed the city the czar built a citadel command ing the city and established a garrison of 15 000 men there general view op polish capital in center alexander bridge spanning the vistula across which lies the city ro&an catholic cathedral in background italy puts a force of 850,000 soldiers entirely at the disposal of her allies new york aug 9.—ltaly will send 850 000 fresh troops either to frame or the dar danelles within the next three weeks according to capt victor del francis of the italian army who arirved here today on the steamer duca daosta . , jr there were 500,000 troop in turin when i lefc-said capt gel francis 150,000 more at tar onto naval base and between 150 and 250 large transports ready to convex the troops where they are most needed advises u s to maintain a firm front paris temps says that if the american government maintains a firm atti tude the germans must climb down daris aug 10.—the temps today publishes a summary of the diplo matic situation between the united states and germany and condludes the article with these words whatev er may be the desire of the united states to avoid a conflict certain rup ture will follow any new exploits of german submarines threatening the lives of american citizens although the germans pretehd am erica cannot war on a great nation without the greatest prejudice to her self it is probable the firmness of the attitude of the government of the united states will be sufficient to im pose.prudence upon the germans without daring to sink american vessels the germans probably will avenge themselves on the ships of oth er neutrals ■ • huge u s wheat crop washington aug 9.—american farmers are harvesting the greatest wheat crop ever grown in one country it may reach a billion bushels russ.fleet checks move of germans beat off the naval force by which the germans endeavored to gain pos session of the gulf of riga f • '.» detrograd aug 10.—an official • explanation of the attack of the german fleet on riga given out to"night was as follows possession of the gulf of riga would allow the germans to give powerful aid to their army now occupying the western coast of the gulf - with-the...object.of penetrating the gulf the fleet appeared on sunday off dieben channel which is the only prac ticable way for large ships to enter the enemy made three attacks with the object of breaking the mine bar rier protected by our fleet our seaplanes and warships co-oper ated to repel the enemy and the ger mans did not succeed in passing our defences three of the german ships were dam aged by mines near dieben none of our ships were lost » ■ the ss susu sailed at na.m to day taking the folowing palssengers rev s harm r burt mrs j snel grove j.-snelgrove edgar &: mrs templeman mrs newhook and ten steerage russ position now far more satisfactory and although the position of certain of the czar's troops is still some what critical chances are all will reach new lines of defence i ondon aug 9—this morning's newspapers look upon the russianf situation more favourably than have for several days the times declares that while the position of certain portions of the rus sian forces still remain critical there is every reason to believe that the ex cellent order with which their with drawal has been executed thus far will be maintained until all have reached the new line of defence little addit ional news has reached london regard ing the russians last-days in warsaw the times correspondent in that city describing the retiring russian troops says—there was no feeling of hope lessness although disappointment was written on every face the long russian retreat culminat ing in the fall of warsaw has touched the lethargic temperament of the rus sian nation and today the war has the support of the entire russian people there is not the slightest suggestion anywhere of peace without a decision the ss portia sails at 10 a.m to ■ morrow sink turk warship italian submarine sends the barbaros sa of 9,900 tons to the bottom practically all the crew were saved says a report from constantinople constantinople aug 9—the turkish battleship kheyr-ed-din barbarossa 9,900 tons displacement formerly the german warship kur fursl friedrich has been sunk by an italian submarine according to an offi cial report issued today by the turk ish government the majority of the officers and men composing the crew of the battleship were saved the official statement telling of the loss of the barbarossa which was sunk this morning says however regret table it is in itself it does not affect us excessively except in so far as it places our strength in ships as compared with the enemy at a ratio of 1 to 10 the barbarossa was built at stettin in 1891 and was purchased together with the battleship reis from germany by the turkish in 1910 her comple ment consisted of about 600 officers and men ■ i ■ lost ground recaptured all the advantages of clash with the enemy remain with the british london aug 9.—sir john french commander-in-chief of the brit ish forces in france reports that the lost trenches at hooge east of ypres n belgium have been retaken by brit ish troops and that they have advanced on a front of 200 yards field marshal french says since my communication of august ist artillery on both sides have been active north east of ypre and these exchanges have left the advantages with us this morning after a successful artillery bombardment which the french on our left co-operated with effectively we attacked the trenches at hooge cap tured by the enemy july 30th these were all retaken and follow ing up this success we made further progress north and west of hooge in extending our front trenches captured for 1200 yards during this r fighting our artillery shelled a german train at langemarck five miles northeast of ypres derail ing five trucks captures reported amounted to tnrce officers 124 men of other ranks two machine guns british gain of trenches near hooge conflict on the western front takes on ne wlmpetus in a fierce ar tillery engagement which wins british important section of the front british artillery smashes german train at langemarck germans in east endeavoring to en velop russians in their lines—tsars forces have to retreat along a strip of territory 30 miles wide ondon aug 9.—while the austro german armies made fresh pro gress today in their campaign against the russians the conflict in the west ern front took new impetus when sir john french reported a fierce artillery engagement in which british and french forces captured trenches in hooge along a front of 1200 yards an official report from berlin char acterised the operations around hooge as a battle but sir john french's later report shows them to have been anoth er trench fight preceded by severe ar tillery exchange and resulting in the recapture by the british of nearly a mile of trenches previously taken by the germans the commander of another british submarine whose name has not yet been disclosed was reported today to have distinguished himself by sinking the turkish battleship kheyrcd din barbarossa a petrograd official communication was issued tonight that a german fleet nine 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