Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1915 — EUROPEAN WAR IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

EUROPEAN WAR IN BRIEF

The efforts of the Fench to advance in the district ate meeting not only with characteristic resist once, but the Germans are delivering fierce counter attacks at various points, not only in that territory, but to the north, in the neighborhood of Albert, around which mahy engagements have been fought during the course of the war. The important strategic position of Les Eparges, which dominates the plane of the Woevre, has been free from fighting since the French occupation of two days ago, but as the Germans are reported to have set great store by this position it is more than likely that the lull presages a reenforcement of the troops who were compelled to withdraw after the last French attacks and offensive operations for the recapture of that point. The fighting to the north of Albert was along the banks of the Andre river, and resulted from an attempt by the Germans to take the French trenches at Hamel and in the Thiepval Wood. The attack was carried out with determination, and at various points there was hand-to-hand fighting. But, according to the French official statement, the Germans were repulsed. Berlin reports the capture of three villages on the Yser canal and the failure of French attacks in the Argonne. But the French claim to have captured a section of a German trench in that region. The Fench admit the loss of some trenches, previously captured from the Germans in the Montmare Wood. Details of the latest operations In the Carpathians are lacking, the Russian official report being largely confined to the defeat two days ago of the Austrians, in which the Russians captured a battalion, and the occupation of several heights near Uzsok Pass, in which they captured more than a thousand men. The German auxiliary cruiser the example of the Prinz Eltel Friedrich, has slipped into Newport News, with the record of having sunk 14 vessels since last' August. Count Von Benstorff, the German ambassador at Washington, has made public the text of the note he recently presented to the American state department. In this note the ambassador points out that a great Industry of war material of every kind is being built up in the United States, and says: • “If people desire to observe true neutrality they ,wlll find a means to stop the exclusive exportation of arms to one side, or at least to use this export trade as a means to uphold the legitimate trade with Germany, especially the 'trade in foodstuffs.”