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Show Outline of the W"ar News The Oerman admiralty, in dcUtrins: a war zone of tile waters u round Great Uritain and Ireland, including I ho whole English Eng-lish channel, from February IS, announces an-nounces that "every enemy merchant ship found, in t his war zone will be destroyed, even if it is not always pos-si pos-si hie to avoid dangers to crow and passengers." pas-sengers." A wa ruins is issued that neutral ships in the war zone are also in danger ami the sta te department at Washington lias been notified b- Germany thai American vessels should avoid the north and west coasts of France. The British foreign office, in a statement hearing on Germany's action, intimates that possibly Great Britain may undertake under-take retaliatory measures, sa yiug: "The appa rent intention of the German government to sink merchant ships by submarines, without bringing them into port or providing accommodation for their crews, and regardless of the Inss of civilian lives, has raised very seriously seri-ously the question whether . Great Britain should adopt more stringent measures against German trade." Xo decision lias yet been taken on this matter. In the same statement, the British government gov-ernment announces that should the American steamer Wilhelmina be intercepted, inter-cepted, it will send the cargo of foodstuffs, food-stuffs, which is destined for Germany, into a prize court. Soin of the hardest fighting of the war is laking place in Russian Poland and Galieia. Hundreds of thousands of Germans and Russians are locked in (he deadly struggle before Warsaw. The German commander, Field Marshal von 1 nindi--nhui7r. i? reported to be iiourinir ! in regiment after vinient. ;md every ! strategic point pnmrdint? the Poiitdi vap-ital vap-ital -has become the scene of ti bitter contest. Kmni the Russian viewpoint. .erm;inc 1ms i;;iined no advaiitase along this line, and the Russians have even succeeded in capturing- one of the small towns lo the east of liolimow. Austria seemingly has met a serious reverse, re-verse, for. Hccordins1 to the announcement announce-ment made by ihc Austro-Hunsrarian war prets bureau received by way of Amsterdam, site has been compelled to evacuate the rmportant town of Tarnow. owint; to I lie severe bombardment by Russia's heavy artillery. The Russian and German emperors will soon be at the front a sain. Emperor 1 Nicholas has already started and Km-peror Km-peror William, who has been inspecting the fleet at Wjlhehnshaven, it is announced, an-nounced, will proceed to the fightintr lines in a day or two, but which front is not mentioned. i Members of the British hospital ship As- I tunas, which has just arrived at 1'ly- ! mouth, say tltat the whip wa s saved from being struck by a deimnn torpedo off Havre by her enptain quickly altering alter-ing the course of his ship when he saw the white track In the water made bv the propeller of the torpedo. The Japanese cruiser Asama, hlch has been on patrol duty in the Pacific, if a total wreck on the Lower California coast. It is said there was no loss of life. The new Zepprlln sheds have just ben completed n-ar the German - Beician frontier and Zeppelin and F;trseal airships air-ships and numerous aeroplanes daily are maneuvering in that neighborhood. |
