Positions
In the Russian torpedo boats have ineffectually shelled German positions on the northern coast of Courland, according to Berlin in Gallicia, alone the lower Struma River, the Russians have made a further advance against the Turks, while in the Caucasus region. Turkish attacks in the Black Sea were repulsed. The Turks, who had been contesting the advance of the Russians toward Baghdad in the Serinander region, have retreated hastily, after having sustained heavy losses, leaving behind their tents and war materials. Small Infantry encounters at various points along the Austro-Italian front, in which what advantage there was tested with the Italians, have served to vary the usual fighting with the guns. Berlin reports the recent sinking in the Mediterranean, by a mine, of an entente allied transport with 600 bushels of wheat aboard, and the destruction of another aircraft in the North Sea. A British official communication admits the loss of the two aeroplanes, but denies a claim by the Germans that the submarine K-3I was sunk by the Germans, declaring that the vessel has returned safely to its base.  In fierce attacks on both banks of the Meuse today, the German forces gained ground from the French. They entered the French communicating trenches east of hill 30-1 and gained a footing in the first French line between Hatidreinont wood and Port Douaumont over an extent of forty-two miles. 