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Show PROGRESS OF THE WAR. j Tor two davs beginning January 30, j German submarines operated in the Irish sea and the English channel along the coast of France. The eubmarine TJ-21 sank three small vessela in the Irish sea, the Ben Cruacben, the Linda Blanche and the Kilcuan. Another submarine sub-marine z&nk tho largo steamer Tokio Mam and the Icaria near Havre. The Tokio Maru was of 6l',c4 tons and carried car-ried Belgian relief sup 'lies. The importance of the raids lies not ro much in the amount of shipping destroyed de-stroyed as in the fact, that ilgv were ! the prelude to a new policy on th-j pari' of the Germans. They have succeeded ; in constructing submarine? who.-c sailing sail-ing radius is more than "000 miles, and a3 a result they are able to carry on submarine operations as far from Germany Ger-many a3 the coasts of Ireland and west France. Tho exploits of tho to submarines sub-marines were followed by not ifi". -it ions from the Germnn government to tho powers ) j a t hereafter t h - coasts of Great Britain. Ireland and northern air:l western Frac'c v. ouM be mpr-Je :m tr Z'j':os and th;;' n-.iitral ?:-!;;;. in' mrn.t enl "r t bv waters on th1"1 -e const at their own peril. Tlie.-e iHviii.-atio!:; wr-ro folk'tved by fbe anno'invcnient that Gerr.any did not inland tu Mnlc , nejtril Fhip r.'ir-vmy foud supplies for1 th civilian populations irj the conn- I tries at war. Germany fixed February 17 as th-j date when the waters mentioned men-tioned would become war zones. Whether Wheth-er anj submunno raid3 will be attempted attempt-ed before that time is problematical. A week has passed and no other 6ub- i marines have imitated the exploits cf j L" -2 1 and its companion. Nevertheless, tlw Ku'li.-h aud the French people are j much agitated by Germany's threat, j wondering whether it is a bluSE j or whether submarine operations such as are suggested can be successful. I Probably the most important engagement engage-ment on land ha.s been in progress near ; Warsaw for .several days. General von ! lliudenburg has concentrated more than luO.000 troops along a front of about i six miles and is seeking to drive a vveue through to Warsaw. If he should be successful he would upset all the Russian plans and compel them to abandon aban-don their campaign in East Prussia, north Poland and western Gaiicia. In a Bimilar attempt at Lodz more than a month ago the Germans triumphed and renderod futile tho gigantic efforts of the Eusdans to invade Germany. To assist in tho drive toward Warsaw, General von Hindenburg massed 600 cannon, and no doubt began the battle ! with th concentrated fire of these , guns. If the Russian reports be vera- cious the artillery was soon rendered practically useless by fighting at close quarters. The battle has developed Into a series of bayonet charges by thousands thou-sands of men, and theguns on both sides are unable to fire for fear of working work-ing havoc in their own ranks. Near the border of Poland and Gaiicia Ga-iicia the Russians have taken Tarnow on the road to Cracow. This town has been in their possession before, but they were compelled to abandon it shortly after they lost Lodz. In the Carpathians the Russians seem to have met with a reverse and this may enable the Austro-German forces to effect a lanking movement toward Przemysl. For several weeks there have been reports that German troops wer,e in Austria. Some reports had it that they were intended to help the Austrians in Bukowina province, and in the Carpathians. Car-pathians. Other reports said that the Austrians and Germans were concentrating concen-trating on the borders of Servia and intended to invade that country. The last report is to the effect that the Teutonic Teu-tonic allies were prevented from invading invad-ing Servia by a sudden rise in the waters wa-ters of the Danube and the Save. The Russians who were driven from Tabriz in Persia several weeks ago have retaken the city after some fighting, fight-ing, and have driven the foe back toward to-ward Turkish territory. All of the Turkish armies operating against the Russians appear to have met with decisive de-cisive defeats. Nevertheless, the Turks are still active and have even made a sporadic attempt to cross the Suez canal, ca-nal, which is being defended by English, Eng-lish, Australians, Canadians, Indian and Egyptian troops. The English claim that in one encounter the Turks lost 500 men in killed, wounded and prisoners, whereas the English lost only fifteen men killed and a little more than fifty wounded. In France and Belgium, while there has been some fighting, there has been no appreciable change in the situation. In South Africa the rebels operating against the English are continuing to surrender. The Germans appear to have met with some bad luck in the Baltic sea. After the light cruiser Gazelle was damaged by a mine or a torpedo, a German gunboat gun-boat was said to have been sunk by a submarine. Then came a report that a German torpedo boat destroyer had also been sunk by a submarine. The Germans deny the loss of the torpedo-boat torpedo-boat destroyer, but Copenhagen says that a torpedo-boat destroyer is a wreck ofi the .Danish island of Moen. |