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Show j PROGRESS OF THE WAR. 1 Warfare has been transformed quite as suddenly by the- German submarine raids as naval warfare -was transformed when the Monitor defeated the ilerri-mac. ilerri-mac. A new era in -warfare has begun j and no one may prophesy what the outcome out-come will be. Enough is known to show that the Germans are meeting with considerable success and have a good chance to carry out their entire ; programme. Within four days German torpedo , boats or mines have sunk seven mer-t mer-t chant vessels and not a single torpedo 1 ' boat has been disposed of. Undoubtedly Undoubt-edly the destruction would haTe been greater had not the English admiralty suspended sailings from English ports unii further notice. By this means English vessels escaped harm until yesterday, yes-terday, when the unpreparedness of the i admiralty to cope with the situation j j was revealed. A German torpedo boat . j penetrated the Irish sea to a point not , far from Liverpool and sank the steam-!; steam-!; ship Cam-bank. It is obvious that the f ! admiralty's order forbidding vessels to sail did not apply to ports on the Irish sea. Xo doubt the admiralty did not iook for an attack near Liverpool. The immediate result will be a paralysis of traffic in tho Irish sea, and such an io- n terferencs with English trans-Atlantic commerce as will greatly disturb English Eng-lish business. Ac length the English must recognize that the danger of being isolated is very real. "While the Germans have been unable to sink a large number of vessels ves-sels in English waters, they have produced pro-duced a suspension of trade that must be a grave handicap, not only on busi-! busi-! es but on England's military opera- tions. An outstanding fact of the tit-j tit-j nation 13 that the English have not been I able to sink a single enemy Submarine, I ' pnd so far as yet made public not one of the submarines has even been sighted ! by a warship. j While tho German rrply to our pro- I1 ' test against the war zone plan bus not been delivered to the stato department ut Washington, its substance 13 known from press reports. Tbe German note ha.g an air of friendliness and consirl-1 consirl-1 oration, but it does not meet the views . of our government at any point. Tbe I j American vnU- declared that our gov- crnrucnt would hold Germany respon-I respon-I s:.j1? for any American lives lost or i any ArnTir-an ships sunk or daiaagcd ' by German submarines and min' in tho proc!;iin-':d war zotK-. The German note disciai:ns any responsibility in such cases and utl'Ot. our government to v, am American ships to keep away from the warzone. Whether the Amer-: Amer-: ian government will make a reply or j merely await developments is now being j discussed at Washington. !' That the German -ibrmiri ne M tack?, frill not bo confined to EnI:sh and Trench vessels wos prove! hy the torpedoing tor-pedoing of the .'."orwegiaa f-'teaniship j lieLride, a petroleum carrier, struck 1 while in the English fbannol of! Polk-: Polk-: Ktone. Tho li-kidge was not so badly ; damaged but that sbo was able to make ! port, althoogh her forederk v.-as ar.vnsh. Pieces of the lordo were found abonrd ; or. Tb 0 Ere n r-h s tes m -h i p 1) i n nra h a 1 0 made port after being torpedoed. Tt r.ould appear i'r.at the Germans havo decreased the charge of ex plosives i n tiieir torpedoes. It might se"i:i t(:hhou-' t(:hhou-' .'hie to conclude th;t tbi.-; iJ, done to ' f-onomiz) fn explosiv,-?, but on the . I'her hand it in nnt rewsonnile to sup-' sup-' poe that tho Germarj would send out t Vimarin':3, v. it h t'jrp'yJoK-i in;i h ,h- of Mnking w;if.-;hjp-,. Ir. nsty he th;if, the i,brn'Jfin''3 n re c;j it;, i n g f '.vo I.inds of j 1 orp'docv', one for v.-;i rhips, ;in ifj: for k ;.K.rrharit ' '-H,':!". ! uftth'T n '' f' in iv ;j rt'rff' '.v-'ifl the- I Mojii.ing uf t'';e uVi inl-r ll'-b'niJ - -in tin- or-b sea by U '.'") v, , v.bii-b j r:,)n- iir, . o-i the M-;rm r and or- ! U-v to 1, a-.e fo. V. J,.-,, s-t j-l!r-.J r f) to fh" rhi;.-i id-ntity, t!,-; ::tain . ff th'i ;u- 1 n (o!og:.ed an 4 c '-en 'led . ih r,j : ?;;'. '.'"'; ir,;iy ;. et f'-rr:; r ,-'-:!-. of ft.d,t . v r.- '. p. . r.fdif;'. ai;d urn.'-'l li u 1 r d. : 1; I n -u . ' in t h" 1 ';, ho ;: -r, t h- '.;', !; u hw.'i mo - or,-: of 11k-, big di ;it.;-oinl. rr-f-nf't Of th.. v.uv. Th-v ,'ir-f,n ol-h'-d f othi,, rornir.'-n -ii-j, - Ml, 1 J,..;,- I -t uu- th-: I:. bo:- 'I'- o.-d to '.;,- ! i on, t run 'I of tj,. ' ',: it - I pfcb;; V.i"- -.J d'inng ln; , oj ij weather in the North sea last week and were destroyed. Forty English aud French aeroplanes made a new raid in Belgium. Whilo the eight French aeroplanes attacked tho aerodrome at Ghistellcs, effectively preventing German aircraft from cut-ling cut-ling oft- tho English machines,' the latter lat-ter bombarded the German submarine basn ut Xeebrugge and also dropped bombs on (Mend and Hiddellrirke. The damage done is not known. The allied fleets havo begun a bombardment bom-bardment of tho Dardanelles fortifications. fortifica-tions. The London report indicates that great damage was done to the forts on tho European side, which evidently were silenced, and that the forts on the Asiatic side wore also damaged, although al-though they continued to firo throughout through-out the bombardment. The Turkish report re-port makes light of the attack. Naval operations against land fortifications are extremely difficult, owing to mine nelds aud to tho strength of the fortifications forti-fications themselves, as well as the possibilities pos-sibilities of concealing big guns in unexpected un-expected places. For many weeks Admiral Ad-miral Sampson's squadron intermittently intermittent-ly bombarded tho forts of Santiago. After the Spanish -fleet had been sunk and Santiago captured by our forces an inspection showed that the American shell fire had merely overturned an old cannon in the land fortifications. The Germans' pursuit of the Russians in the East Prussia region has come to a standstill along a line of permanent and temporary fortifications. Tho Russians Rus-sians were disarously defeated in East Prussia and their losses were heavy in killed, wounded, guns and supplies. Nevertheless their armies have been able to retreat to the fortified linos and plan to hold the Germans in check at these positions. In Bukowina tho Russians Rus-sians have been driven beyond the River CPruth, where they are 'making a stand. In Poland, Galicia and the Carpathians the Russians appear to be holding their own, and are said to have begun the bombardment of Przemysl with guns of heavy caliber. In Flanders, France, Alsace and Lorraine Lor-raine there has been spirited fighting, with the French generally the aggressors. aggres-sors. The gains have not been considerable. |