Show Outline of the War News The third German advance on Wa saw has been def n te y checked accord g to the view of the n tary s tuat on in Po and held hy the offic als at Petro grad In that terr tory the Germans who have been f ghtlng: fierce y for weeks past 1 ave suffered grrea losses and they have fai ed to b eak through the i Russian 1 ne -which has been g eat y re nforced before the Po sh Cap ta T e fa ura of the Aus rian advance through the Carpath ans s said o lave had a serious effect on the Austro Gem an campagn in the east Tl ere has been a u 1 of late n the f ght ng on the eft bank of the V s u a ex cept at so ated po nts whe e the Rus s ans apparent y have succeeded n mainta n na the r pos tton Vienna cams to ave brought t e Rus s an advance n the Carpath ans to a s andsti but the Russ an genera staff records an important success near LIsko and the repu se of the Austnan counter attacks at Izsok pass as we as sorties b-v the gar ison a P zem s In the west the f ght ng is of a natu e that permits of on y sn a ad ances o e ther s de The most mportant news concerning the wa fare n France comes in the way of a report from Do er at a squadron of seven aerop anes d opped bombs Wednesday on Dunk rk It is expected n London that t e Brit s gove nment w equ re severa dajs to cons de fu y the representat ons made n t e Ame can government s note w h egard o the search ng of Ame can vesse s by British warships before re P y ng to them T e cab net a ready has g ven the protest a pre n nan read ng Publ c fee ing In Great Br ta n seeming v nc ines to the be ef that the d ffl culty wi 1 be smoothed over am cably The f rst sh pment of cotton from the Un ted Sta es bound for Germany s nee the war bef?an has reached Rotterdam The Ame can s earner transporting it was held up n the Engl sh channel for a exam nat on of her papers by B t sh warships ca s ng a de ay of twenty four hou s T e Japanes fore gn office gives den al to t e reports that Japanese roops ha e landed at Vlad vostok or at any other p ace on the r way to Europe A epo t fro n Fr edric hafej by way of Geneva says that in the rece t Brit sh aer a ra d on Cu-shaven one of the ates super Zeppe ins -was destroyed by bombs The Be g an borders wi be c osed by the German adm st at on beg nn ng Jan ua 3 1 0 a persons except those ho d ng spe a n tary passes Th s meas ure t s understood has been taken to prevent esp onage The B t sh government s war insurance a es on cargoes has been decreased one th rd I |