Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1915 — EUROPEAN WAR IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

EUROPEAN WAR IN BRIEF

' Naval activities have come to '' the forefront again in the cam--6 paign. The American oil tank 5 steamer Gulflight, bound for a ' French port, has been torpedoed off the SCilly Islands, the French ' steamer Europe was sent to the ‘ bottom near Bishop's Rock, the ' British steamer Fulgent was sunk ‘ by a submarine oft Skellig Rocks. ‘ A German submarine has sunk ’ the British torpedo boat destroyer * Recruit in the North Sea. Two * German torpedo bdats sunk tho "trawler Colombia, 17 fishermen * being drowned, and were in turn * pursued and sunk by British de- * stroyers. Two German officers and " 4 4 men were rescued by the de- * stroyers. * There has been little fighting "in Belgium, and there is com- ’ plete quiet along the British front. ' The French have bombarded the ' intrenched camp of .Metz, and ‘ announces that their fife has ‘ proved efficacious against one of ' the forts, the brracks and the ' railway near by. The French occupation of tho ' summit of liartsnians-Wellerkopf ' is confirmed in a dispatch from a ' correspondent, who has just re- ' turned to Paris from a visit to the French positions there. The ' entire hill has been devasted as a result of the desperate fighting which has been going on there for weeks. German forces are to the southwest of Mltau, capital of courland, and their operations in the Baltic provinces seemingly have taken the Russians off their guard. This movement, according to the German official statement, making satisfactory progress. The British War Office announces that 2 6 men of the British fleet were killed and 53 wounded in the landing operations against tho Dardanelles between April 25 and 30. An unofficial dispatch from Athens says that 4,000 French ' troops who were landed on the 'Asiatic side returned to their ' transports after the purpose for ' which they were intended—supporting the occupation of certain point's by tjie British—had been acbmpllshed. A White Paper has been issued by the British government embody in grepOTts tending to show that the drink habit is having a very serious effect on the output of war munitions and repairs to the warships and transport services,