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Show Outline of the War News j The Russian naval arm lias been coming more prominently Into the war of late and Kussia officially reports the sinking -of a German torpedo boat by a Russia Rus-sia n submarine off Cape Sloen, Denmark. Den-mark. While undoubtedly heavy -fighting is in progress in the eastern war zone there is little that stands out from the ordinary ordi-nary engagements which have charac- ' terized this campaign with the exception excep-tion of the extended fighting now going on in the Carpathian mountains between Russians and Austria ns and Germans for the strategical positions whhjh possession pos-session of the great passes would give. In this battle the Russian ofrensi'e has been strong but Vienna reports that at Beskid pass the Russians have met with hoavy losses. According to this official report the Teutonic allies captured a thou rand prisoners in a struggle lor important heights which were stub- l; .bornly defended but which finally the ' Russians yielded. I In the west there are brief reports of German attacks and repulses but noth-; noth-; ing of a spectacular nature. ! The Turks have been repulsed twice by j the British forces on the Suez canal near Touourn, thirty-live miles north I of .Suez, where they attempted to throw ; a bridge across the waterway and near ; i;i Kar.tara, forty miles south of Fort i Said, win.-re previously in January ! they had suffered heavily. The Bulgarian premier, M. Radoslavoff. t is authority for the statement That th i attitude of Bulgaria with reference ir. the war is strictly neutral. From tii tenor of a statement given by him to I the Associated Press it is apparer.iiy I also one of watchful waiting. I Eulgaria, the premier said, rememben I that it was almost isolated to the Ba:-1 Ba:-1 kans as demonstrated by the recent r and has no dream of large empire. T:e Mace Jonian question, affecting tho members of the Bulgarian rac? r.o dominated by Serbia and Greece, he ir-timated. ir-timated. might lead Bulgaria to actios at a future date. A report is current that the Greeks art industriously making mobilization pr:-arations pr:-arations and are continuing the fortif-cation fortif-cation of their frontier. Lieuf-nant Colonel Kemp and hi, commando com-mando of Boer rebels has suiTerd:?-; ' to the British forces in South Aim. Only Lieutenant Colonel S. G. Marin now remains of the four original Souih A f rican Boer r evolutions ry leaders. The new session of the British parja-ment parja-ment will devote its entire attecuo: to government measures relating to tit war. The leadei-s, in agreeing to Premier Pre-mier Asquith's resolution to this effect, said that the opposition intended to treat the present sitting of the houw as a war session. A German aeroplane which flew qt? Swiss territory has -been fired upon br Swiss infantry, according to repcr-j reaching Basel. The German Socialists of the reirhsu: have virtually read out of the party Ft. Karl Liebknecht for his action in voting vot-ing against the German war credits a the relrhstag. |