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Show Outline of the War News At various points on the battle front in Flanders and France, the Germans again have started offensive movements move-ments with the object of capturing: positions po-sitions held by the allies or penetrating penetrat-ing their lines. Paris asserts (hat in most of these attempts the Germans have been held and that to the north of Chalons, as in the Vosges. near Burnhaupt le Bas, progress has been made by the French forces. Of the fighting in the other zones little is known except that the Russians tire continuing their operations in East Prussia, that the Germans and Austri-ans Austri-ans are in combat with the Russians at a different point in Poland, and that the struggle between the Teuton aiiies and the Russians fox supremacy in the Carpathian passes is still going on. Austria claims the Teutons have been successful in the middle section of the latter fronr. Paris declares that a German submarine northeast of the Havre lightship made an attempt to sink the British battleship battle-ship Asturias. A news asrency dispatch says 2,0i0 Italians are being concentrated at Bail, on the Adriatic, for the occupation of Durazzo Albania. A report from London Lon-don asserts that Italian reservists in Fngiand have been ordered to be ready to respond to a call to the colors of their country-, i Bombs have ben dropped by French air- I men on the famous Homberg captle In I . Alsace, where German staff officers were residing. The building was burned. ; A Berlin newspaper statistician reports that as a result of Germany's regulation regula-tion of bread and flour, less than 4.-000,000 4.-000,000 tons of rye and wheat will be required in the country to the middle of August, while from last year's harvest har-vest at the beginning of the war there were 13.000.000 tons of these grains, not Including that left over from the 113 harvest. Canada has requested. through the liritlsh embassador at Washington, the extradition of Werner Van Horn for attempting at-tempting to destroy a Canadian Pacific Pa-cific railway bridge connecting Maine and the province of New Hrunswick. Van Horn claims that, as a German army officer, his offense is a political one. and that therefore he cannot be extradited. extra-dited. Official circles in Washington ar of the opinion that If this ciaim holds good Van Horn may prosecuted prose-cuted under the American neutrality laws. As a result of Germany's confiscation of grain and flour to conserve tho nation's na-tion's food supply, the Brltis'u fv-t has been ordered to treat carvoes of grain and flour destined for Germany and Austria as conditional contra Sand and tuMect to sc-.zure. The Amor;-an embassador em-bassador at Iondon has so ln:'orni the stute department at Washington. |