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Show PROGRESS OF THE WAR. So far as res Us were concerned Chi Btmas week was so devo d of them ' that the period seemed almost as xf a tru e Tiad been de lared and yet H there was fur ous f gating on every! t day of the week The all es ha e con : j turned to hurl themselves aga nst the German defenses from Nieuport on the 1 coast of nanders to a point n Alsace neaT tne Swiss front er At the same jjj H. mo the Teutonic all es have been at I $ tacking the Ttussians from the Carpa I th an n ountajns to the northern border j ft of Poland Tor nearly ten days the If Eusb an? have been defending them .W elves in the region of Warsaw and 1 Dorth and south of that c ty It is ap jjf parent that the German advance has H been checked at least temporar ly The H losseB m both the western and eastern WSb war zones have been heavy and yet HH ne tier side has gamed a dec s ve vie Englsnd is again agitated by fear HH of a German invasion Defensive works HHJ hare been completed all around Lon don and at many .coast po nts Fo HI the f rst time s nee the war began II German av ators nave been scout ng II aloDE the Ijiglish, coast A birdman mm ' made h st appearance early in the week Bfl gt TnT-pr wli ch is an Enffl sh naval I base and dropped a bomb On Cbr st nas day t-RO or tares German av ators appeared at d fferent points and one of them was engaged in battle by two English aviators and driven out to sea What the appearance of the German scouts may presage tbe English do not know It may be Only an at tempt to keep the Engl sh ti orr ed and nervous On the other hand, the Ce man na al authorities may be anxious to determine the ixact lo at on of the Engl sh battle fleet Some ot the En0 lish T-trsh ps have been bombarding the German posit ons near "S eupo t but the English are not r sk ng any ot their dreadnoughts in such opera borne a t v ty has at length been dis ilayed by the Austr an naval forces V submar ne was sent out into the t ulf of Otranto to attack a tleet of 1 ren h warships and succeeded n land ng one or two torpedoes The rrench i j I say that ODe of their battlesh ps was 1 1 I fctrnckj 1 Ht only slightly damaged. The , ' nstr ans saj that two French war ships were h t but that the damage could not be asce ta ned o ng to the onf usion "Meant me a French sub marine tr ed to sink an Aust an war j ' ship in tho Austr an naval harbor at Polo but was sunk and h r crew ap , tured ') An odd development ot the war has I i been the cess on by Russia of that por j t on of Sakhalin sland which it did J not cede to Japan at the end of the ' 1 usso Japanese war New Buss a sur renders all its r gut in exchange for heavy guns whi h presumably are e qui ed for s ege operations aga nst Austria and German j Five German aeroplanes passed over Socba zew Euss an Po and wh ch the Germans ha e been attack ng unsuc ccssfully ior a weel and dropped bombs kll ng e ght and wound ng ! more thau 100 ersons A C erman ! Zeppelin tlen o er Nancy m France and dropped fourteen bombs Two per sons were k lied a d t vo wo uded |