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Show PROGRESS OF THE WAR. The past week has witnessed a series of unbroken successes for the Teutonic armies operating on the eastern battle bat-tle front. The Russians have fought valiantly and sacrificed the lives of thousands of men. They have also inflicted tremendous losses upon the enemy, but they have been compelled to give up one position after another, the climax coming when the Bavarians, Bavar-ians, under Prince Leopold, marched into Warsaw. All the progress on this front was made by the Austro-Ger-mans. On the Italian front the operations of the week have resulted favorably for King Victor Emmanuel, whose soldiers sol-diers have outfought the Austrians at every turn, but the battles fought are not so important as to induce the belief be-lief that the Italian army will advance very far into Austria before winter puts a stop to fighting in the mountains. moun-tains. Gorizia has not been taken and there are no indications that it will be given up by the Austrians at any time in the near future. Still, the Italians should be given credit for besting the enemy at all points of contact during the week. r- t, TVonoi! and "Relfnan fronts 11C there have been attacks and counterattacks counter-attacks and some artillery duels, but no great battles. There has been no change in the general situation worthy of note, and the taking of a trench here and there is scarcely worthy of mention. Nothing has occurred to give either side marked advantage over the other and the deadlock is apparently complete. Although it is hinted that the Germans will attempt another drive, they have not begun massing their forces. The Australiansj and Xew Zealand-ers Zealand-ers wrested a commanding position from the Turks on the GallipoH peninsula during the week, but otherwise there has been little doing in the Dardanelles. Darda-nelles. The Serbians and Montenegrins have been quiescent. The German submarines sub-marines were active during the fore part of the week and bagged a number num-ber of British and neutral vessels, most of them trawlers. Just at present there is intense interest in-terest in the probable course to be pursued pur-sued by the Balkan states. Negotiations Negotia-tions are now being carried on at the capitals of all the little states and offers of-fers of territory for help during the war are, without doubt, being freely made. If the Rumanians, Bulgarians and Greeks could be induced to cast their fortunes with the entente allies the Tecent victory of the Austro-Ger-mans over the Russians would go for naught. Should they go with the cen tral empires the Germans and Austrians would be able to relieve Constantinople and prevent the French and British from passing the Dardanelles. It would be impossible for Greece to aid the Germans Ger-mans in conjunction with the Bulgarians, Bulgar-ians, for it is Greek as well as Serbian territory that the Bulgars demand as the price for their support. Moreover, the sympathies of a great majority of the Greeks is with Great Britain and her allies, and should the rulers of the country decide to support Germany a revolution would undoubtedly result and the king be hurled from his throne. Summing up, the events of the week have been decidedly favorable to the Germans. The end of the war is, nevertheless, never-theless, as far away as ever. Russia is too vast to be entirely conquered and there is no prospect that the czar will ever consent to a separate peace no matter how disastrously the present pres-ent campaign may end. The British and French are manufacturing a vast quantity 01 eaeiia im uiuic purchased in the United States. Lord Kitchener will have his new army ready for the field in a very short time, fully armed and equipped and well drilled. Weighing these preparations prepara-tions against the Teutonic success in Poland the conclusion is inevitable that the war is going to last at least as long as Lord Kitchener said it would, and it may last much longer. At the-tame the-tame time, it would be useless to deny the fact that the kaiser's armies have achieved a wonderful victory and that before they are conquered, if con-' quered they be, Europe will be drenched with blood from one end to the other. |