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Show Outline ot the War News The British steamer.. Lusitania has made use of the American flag in crossing the Iribh sea and thereby has probably prob-ably created a situation which will bring about an inquiry into the whole subject of belligerent vessels utilizing utiliz-ing the flags of neutral states. This incident bears out, in a measure at least, the allegation made by the German government that British merchantmen mer-chantmen have been advised to employ em-ploy the flag of a neutral nation under un-der certain conditions. The captain of the Lusitania, according to American Amer-ican passengers, claimed the right to use the American flag in order to protect neutral passengers and mails aboard his ship. No official report of this incident has been received at Washington, but ii is considered likely there that a com plete investigation will be made. The text of the German memorandum regarding retaliatory measures undertaken under-taken bv the German government against Great Britain with respect to proposed action in the waters surrounding sur-rounding Great Britain and Ireland, including the English channel, specifically specif-ically notes that shipping north of tbo Shetland inlands, in the eastern area of the North sea and of a strip along the Netherlands coast thirty miles in , width is exempt. Germany expresses the hope that the neutral powers "will show no less consideration for the vital interests of Gei many than for those of -England and will aid iu keeping their citizens and property out of this area. " Only meager news has been received from central Poland to indicate the trend of tho great battle which is being wajed to the west and southwest south-west ot Warsaw, where Field Marshal Mar-shal von Hindenbuig has been hurling hurl-ing bis reinforced army furiously against, the Russian lines in another attempt to forco his way through to Warsaw. , It is believed that the battle continues and earlier reports concerning the , nature of the fighting make it appear ap-pear certain that there has been great loss of life. In the western theater the customary artillery duels continue, but it is comparatively quiet in this field of operations. The latest official communication from the French war office refers briefly to the ( very efficient fire maintained by our artillery in Belgium and iu the valley of the Aisne, M and says that slight progress has been made by the allied troops in Champagne, to the north of Massigss. Tho Austrian war office reports that the fighting continues along the Carpathian Car-pathian front and in Bukowina. The situation in southern Poland and in western Galicia, it is added, remains unchanged. Emperor William of Germany, having completed his inspection of the German Ger-man naval base at Wilhelmshaven, has gone to the eastern war zone, traveling by way of Czenstochowa, Russian Poland. j General von Bissing the new German : governor general of Belgium, declares in an interview that American relief ; in Belgium "was and still is neces- j sary in the highest degree." He as- I Berts that the German army is not j using any foodstuffs sent to Bel- j giuni" by Americans and that the i army is drawing its entire food supply sup-ply from Germany. |