Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1915 — EUROPEAN WAR IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

EUROPEAN WAR IN BRIEF.

Five days of almost continuous : fighting in that section of Flanders of which Ypres is the center has brought no end to the battle, which began with a forward sweep of the Germans over a distance of several miles. Official reports indicate there has been no cessation of the assaults by which the Germans hope to push their way through the allied lines, or the counter attacks by which the British, French and Belgians are striving 4o beat back their adversaries. German headquarters tells of the capture of 1,000 Canadians and 4,00 0 others, including English and French and their affiliated forces and the taking of 45 cannon. The British war office, in describing the readjustment of the British line, says it now runs to the south of St. Julion, which is in the hands of the Germans, and adds that severe fighting is still going on to the northeast of Ypres, although “the general situation remains unchanged." The French war office,” charging the Germans with still employing asphyxiating gases, for which a protection lias been found, claims to have made considerable progress to the north of Ypres. That the losses have been very great is admitted, but long lines of re-enforcements are filling up the gaps on both sides. Because of the nature of the country, which is flat, it is possible to utilize great bodies of troops, and from the nature of the preparations made by the Germans, who possibly anticipated the operations of the allies and struck first, the battle promises to he long drawn out and one of the most sanguinary of the war. The Germans also are attacking the strategic point of Les Sparges, on the heights of the Meuse, which fell into the hands of the French on April 10, after a series of desperate encounters, and they have succeeded in gaining possession of the summit of * llartman’s-Weilerkouf, in the Vosges. Under cover of the guns of the fleet the allies have disembarked an army at various points on the Gallipoli Peninsula, bn the European side of the Dardanelles, and a general attack on the straights has been begun by land and sea forces. The Turks offered strong resistance to the landing of the troops, hut this, it is announced in London, was successfully accomplished. Claims of Austrian successes in the Carpathians are chronicled by Vienna. Twenty-six Russian trenches, containing much war material, are said to have been captured by the Austrians, and counter attacks in the vicinity of IJzsok Pass were halted, with heavy casualties to the Muscovites.