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Show PROGRESS OF THE WAR. In spite of important operations in other areas of tho war, the Gorman submarine blockade continues to be the principal element of interest. It has assumed a world-wide political aspect. lUiriny the week two American vessels ves-sels were sunk iy German mines outside out-side tbe proclaimed war zone. The disaster failed to arouse animosity in this country because the two boats were destined to Germany with supplies of cotton and were assuming; well-known risks. If the latest note which our state department de-partment has sent to the belligerents results in favorable action, disasters upon the high seas to neutral vessels will be prevented, and even euch disasters as those which befell the Americans boats will be 'greatly minimized. mini-mized. While the terms of our proposal pro-posal have not been made public, it is generally known that we have urged the allies to permit foodstuffs to enter Germany when they are not destined for the German army, and we have asked both the allies and Germany to make their warfare upon the sea conform to the rules of international law. No answer has yt been received by the state department, but it is reported that Great Britain and France arc unwilling to forego the military advantage of being be-ing able to shut out foodstuffs from Germany. The German submarine blockade hns now been in prorees ten days, and about a dozen French and English ships have been destroyed. Winston Churchill, first lord of the? admiralty, has issued figures on the arrival and departure of vessels, in an effort to reassure his countrymen. The figures show that about 1400 vessels arrived and do-parted do-parted from English ports during the week subsequent to February l?r when the war zone proclamation Trent into effect. The English admiralty reports the loss of the armored crui?er Clan MacNaugh-ton, MacNaugh-ton, which was last heard of on February 3. Wreckage from the, vessel has been found, but no information as :o how she was destroyed has been received. re-ceived. Wreckage cast up on the coast of Norway indicates that the famous German submarine U-9, which destroyed three English cruisers in rapid succession succes-sion on September 23. has al?o been lost. The German steamer Gotha, loaded with provisions for the German j auxiliary cruiser Kron Prinz Wilhelm, was captured by a British cruiser and ' taken to the Falkland inlands. . A French torpedo boat destroyer was sunk in the Adriatic eea while convoy- ing some French Miips carrying supplies ' to The Montenegrins. After six weeks of preparation the allied French and English fleet h'is destroyed de-stroyed the outt.-r forts at the Dardanelles. Darda-nelles. The bombardment began in earnest on Frida', February If, and was continued last week. The forts on both the European and Asiatic fides wero reduced by last Thursday, and on Friday mine-sweepers began clearing of mines the entrance to tbe narrow waterway leading into the Sea of Marmora. The last reports indicate j that the allied fleet has been able to J pcnetra.tc into tho straits and to shell ' some of the inner forts and batterien. i Tho Turks report that threo Eoglnb warships have been damaged. England j admits that the Agamemnon was . struck, and it in likely that eomo vital 1 losea will bo hustaim d before Con- t atantinoplc ia taken. The purpose of ! the operation is not only to secure Con- j htantinoplo and a way into the Blac'i ' :-:f-a, but to cut off the Turkish com- i rmmication with the armies operating in An.ia Minor afaiait tho Ilusiian3 and the English. Tt is reported that tho Germans are rushing troop?, bv railroad and automobile automo-bile from the eabt front to the western theater of war. The object is to have Hiffirdent forces in Klauders, France and 1 Alsace to withstand tho threatened for- J ward movement of the a Hie. Englir-h troops have ber-u pouring into Frau'-e for more than a month, and it hat bt-en j estimated that already 7.' 0,000 English troops are at and near Lhe tiring Ijn rf it be true thai, the Germans arc al- rf-ndy itrengthnuing th'-ir wet-tern Iin, ! th'-y are convinced that, the forward ' movement of the Ere if h and English will begin eon;,i'li-ra tdy nhea! of the' 'Into set by Eord Kibdjener, I hat. n to J -ay, May J . ; Tt looks now ;ri if the German1) lia.fl ' decided not, to rout unie their offejiM ve i operations in R:i:-da. Kvidenf.lv they are, ?r'ti .fjed to contain the IfuKrdanij while preparing for and I'jirryin nn (he -;i n j pa igu a;'.'r i rr-1 the l.'p'.'li'-h a n 1 Vemdi. In a g':fi'-ral p. a v the Te,(t(,Mj' i;Ilie: ha e a''fompli-died all of their object in the :a rn pa tgn iy: i nut. the Uu 4fda nu.. TliT.' have foiled th movement, again't, Cracow and f'-reJau and have driven I Ije If.) !: i a nr, :wk u pon Wara w. The y d;ive .)' jle, the J.'u '.jani from Ea?.t Ei it .-.a and turn J the right. Hank "f f),.r i;ir'; anr'V t " lit'-i'ii LI v to mke ,:r:t, I ' r u i ;x f-'te lor p.ohio lime. Thy ;,;, pre.'' i;teI ;he av;(?ir,n of ifuo-yu ifuo-yu u n d e lrivn th Kti''it rn oi. t. f P.ul-.ov. i n;i, M.Ht of lliiri ha 'i ;,i n ( "ontpli ii'"l o- er fi'MV'n ground, ! which facilitated the movement of the German troops. There is still a period of three weeks during which the ground will bo frozen, and the Germans could continue their offensive for that length of time, still further shattering Russian resistance, but evidently the crisis in France has been reached and the Germans Ger-mans are compelled once more to reinforce rein-force their western front. They will leave on the eastern front a sufficient army to block any offensive move by the enemy. In less than a month all the roads in Kusia aloug the East Prussia frontier and in Poland and Galicia will be mired, and this will further handicap a Russian Rus-sian forward movement. The Teutonic allies seem to bo serenely confident that they have the Russians well in hand and need not expect any reverses in that quarter, at least for months to come. Meantime the great campaign iu tho west will be carried well toward a conclusion. con-clusion. 1 i ' Air raids have been made in both Belgium and England. Threo English aviators who participated in a raid against German positions in Belgium are missing. The visit of the Gorman aviators to England was more in the nature of a scouting expedition than a raid. They evidently wore seeking information, in-formation, but they dropped a few bombs. |