Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1915 — EUROPEAN WAR NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

EUROPEAN WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

A late dispatch from Boulogne., by way of lamdon, declares that the Germans have evacuated Lille and that that city virtually is in the possession of the British. Dunkirk has lieen bombarded again by German aeroplanes. Thirty bombs were thrown, but the Havas Agency reports t|iat the victims were few JWI the unit erial damage was unimportant. In Russian Poland and Galicia the struggle seems to be one which embodies very small gains for a vast amount Qf erfort. Nothing has come, out of that territory to indlcate a decisive result at any point. The British's government’s reply to the'American note regarding the treatment of American commerce by the British fleet has been given out at Washington. The reply, which is merely preliminary, concedes the principles of the American government’s contentions, dwells upon the difficulties confronting the British government and declares that Great Britian desires “to restrict its action solely to interference with contraband destined for the enemy.’* Petrograd rejiorte that the Turkish cruisers Breslau and Hainidicb were considerably damaged in a recent battle In the Black Sea with Russian warships. Complaining that the Germans are holding captive French surgeons and nurses, France declares that hereafter she will repartrlate German surgeons and nurses hel«J by the French onfy in proportion to the French surgeons and nurses returned to France. Refugees, who have, arrived at Bergen-Op-Zoom from Brussels, says the Nleuws Van Deli Dag, report that a great fire has broken out at the former Belgian capital.