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Show PROGRESS OF THE WAR Notw thstand ng the opt m 8t c com mumcations issued in Berlin and Vienna it is patent that the Euss ans have been making substant al progress in the Carpathians So slow is this ad vance however and so numerous and d cult are the obstacles tl at beset the r path at every forward step that the Euss ans have been caut ous in setting forth their claims They are looking for a German drive, at Bome other po nt wh ch may compel them to d m n sh the r efforts in the Carpathians long a front of about seventy five miles the Buss ans have forced the r way through three or four important passes The TeutOu 0 all es however st 11 hold the pr nc pal pass and rail road The czar 3 commanders hope to make th s pos t on Uzsok pass unten able bv working in back of it from the Other passes It s reported from Sw tzerland that the con bined iustro German mo ement aga nst Serb a has been abandoned ow ing to the developments in the Car path ans and the constant pressuie of the allies aga nst the German 1 ne in the western war zone The Anstr ans t s a d will adopt a purely defensive attitude toward Serb a Th s will bo a grateful rel ef to the Serb ans who have been in profound d stress not only in consequence of the war but as a re suit of the typhus epidemic and scarcity of food For several months they have enjoyed a respite from warl ke condi t ons fol owing the r expulsion of the Austrian nvaders last December It is not likely that they wul make any in cursion into Vustna this spring Mean time the Austnans will concentrate a large armv on the Italian frontier fear ins that war with Italy will break out any day The French have succeeded after a long siege in taking heights which dom mate the Woevre plains This is the most important gain they have made m several months for if the advantage is pressed the foe w 11 be compelled to drop back at other points The opera t ons against St Mihiel have not been so successful The Germans still hold the arrowhead po nted at the heart of. France The English and Belgians have also been engaged during the week. The for mer seized1 a village after a stiff fight but the latest reports indicate that the Germans have reoccupied all the lost ground The English have repulsed sev eral violent attacks The world is waiting with much cun ositv for any new operations against the Dardanelles It is taken for granted that when the attack s renewed n earnest it will be carried on both by land and sea English and French troops are waiting n Egypt for a fa vorable opportunity to begin the attack by land The Bulgarian raid into Serb a wh ch promise 1 sensational results has not developed into regular warfare It if 1 kened to other raids of the kind which have annoyed Serbia since last summer The submarine warfare eoatinues to worrv England The Germans are sink ng about one boat a day The English on the other hand have been able to sink a submarine ooly at the rate of one every two weeks That appears to be just 8icient to prevent the Ger mans from increasing the destructive ness of their attack The German go ernment while in sistmg that the captain of the Pnns Eitel had a right to sink the American boat William P Irye has of . fered to pay damages n accord ance w th an old treaty between Prus s a and the United States The Pnnz Eitel after bluffing its foes for several weeks will be interned The value of the bluff is seen in the ! fact that throughout the peno men f t oned English an 1 French warships have been kept patroll ng the waters outside Newport News |