Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1915 — EUROPEAN WAR IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

EUROPEAN WAR IN BRIEF

* South of Zillebeke, Belgium, a ? hill which dominates the country * north and northwest, has been f captured and consolidated by the * British, says London, after a san- * guinary engagement with the " Germans. * According to Paris, a further " advance in the Vosges by the * French has been made on both " banks of the Fecht river, the Ger- * mans evacuating Eselprucke and * abandoning large stores of war ’ materials. A German counter at- ' tack at Les Eparges was repulsed. * Vienna characterizes as unimportant the only fighting that * has been going on in the Carpath- * ians, while the latest official " communication, issued in Petro- * grad, deals with battles which " occurred Sunday and earlier. ‘ Enver Pasha, the Turkish minister of war, in an Interview spoke * optimistically of “Turkey’s fu--1 ture, declaring that Turkey would * emerge from the war “truly ‘ united and stronger than ever.” ’ Irritation in the Netherlands, * due to the sinking of the Dutch ’ steamer Katwyk, has greatly ‘ subsided, owing to Gejmany’s de--1 duration that she would apolo--1 gize and pay for the steamer If it were found that she was sunk 1 by submarine. Reports received in Copenhagen say great concern is felt in Vien--1 na regarding the Trentino nego--1 tiations with Italy; that the 1 Italian Embassy is prepared to leave Vienna, and that war with 1 Italy is imminent. A German submarine has sunk 1 the British trawler Vanilla. All l of the crew was lost, as the trawler Fermo was driven off by the submarine when it went to its rescue.