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Show PROGRESS OF THE WAR. Events in Europe have moved with tragic celerity during the past week. Bucharest, the far-famed capital of Rumania, Ru-mania, has fallen into the hands of the Teutonic invaders, and the Russians and Rumanians who made a vain attempt to defend it are scattered in flight. More than 70,000 Rumanians are said to have been captured, together with vast stores of grain and other supplies so badly needed by the central powers. Tho complete success of Field Marshals Von Mackenson and Von Falkenhayn in their comparatively short campaign has had the effect of raising the spirits of the Germans to a high pitch and inspiring in-spiring them with the belief that their armies are invincible and that they will win the war. The Russians made an attempt to save Bucharest by sending troops to aid the Rumanians and by an offensive movement in the Carpathians, but they were not strong enough to prevent the catastrophe and the sacrifice of life was in vain. It is supposed that the larger part of the Rumanian army made its escape and that the soldiers of King Ferdinand will join the troops of the czar and endeavor to regain their lost territory, their present situation being like that of the Serbians now fighting in Macedonia. It will be observed that the Teutons, as usual, are entrenched on enemy ground and that their own country is not suffering from the ravages rav-ages of war. ' - Next in importance . in the chain of events is the effort of the entente to pull tho claws of King Constantino of Greece and prevent the royalist army from taking part in the war on the side of the central powers. The British, and French .believe that if an opportunity presented itself King Cqnstantine would attack them in tho rear and the drastic measures taken were for the purpose of preventing such an occurrence. The Greek monarch has been - under suspicion sus-picion ever since he overrode the action ac-tion of Premier Venizelos and pailia-ment pailia-ment and failed to keep faith with Serbia, Ser-bia, to which the Greeks were bound by a solemn treaty. At no time in all the weary months which have followed the outbreak of the war has King Con-stantine Con-stantine shown the slightest sympathy for the entente. His every act and word has shown that he believed the kaiser would win, and that if the Greek royalists could possibly do so they 1 ULUU ligllli OlUC L'J OlUG VtlLU IUO U CI mans. It is said that Austria and Germany have offered their services to Greece in opening land 'communication if Greece declares war upon the entente allies. By shortening- their front in Rumania it is considered probable that the central cen-tral powers will be able to release a large number of troops for duty elsewhere, else-where, in which case it would be comparatively com-paratively easy to send heavy reinforcements rein-forcements down into Macedonia to give battle to General Sarrail. By order or-der of the entente a blockade of Greece began at S o'clock Friday morning and the fate of the Hellenic kingdom may bo said to hang in the balance. Constantino' Con-stantino' played his cards very badly and his country is infinitely worse off than if it had taken one side or the other when the war broke out. Outside of the battles in Rumania and in the Carpathians the fighting on the various fronts has not amounted to very much during the . week. There have been artillery duels on the west front and some aerial battles, with no change in the situation. The same is true of the Italian front. In Macedonia Mace-donia the French and Serbians are not making any- great amount of progress, the Bulgars and Germans showing a disposition dis-position to fight rather than to continue con-tinue to fall back. Owing to the conquest con-quest of Rumania and the Greek situation situa-tion it may be that Macedonia will occupy the attention of the world in the course of tho next few weeks. I The fall of Asquith and the rise of Lloyd George to the commanding position posi-tion in the British government was tho great political event of the week, and as it will have a bearing upon the future fu-ture conduct of the war there is absorbing ab-sorbing interest all over the world. The British people have been restless for a long time and of late there has been an insistent demand that the waiting policy poli-cy be abandoned anl the war prosecuted prose-cuted with the greatest possible amount of vigor. First came the changes in the. admiralty and theu the downfall of the cabinet. Few of the British statesmen believed that Lloyd George would be able to construct a ministry out of the wreck of the coalition. Bonar Law was summoned by the king upon the advice of Mr. Asquith, but declined to attempt the task of cabinet j making and there was no way out of; j putting the matter into the hands of the j Welshman who has shown such a tre- i mendous amount of energy ever since Great Britain became involved in the struggle onthe continent. The protest of the United States against the deportation of the Belgians has been communicated to the German government without eliciting a favorable favor-able response. The action of the Germans Ger-mans in taking the Belgians from their native land to work behind the lines in the country of their oppressors is declared to be "in contravention of all precedents and of those humane principles prin-ciples of international practice , which long have been accepted and followed by civilized nations in thoir treatment of non-combatants." The German excuse ex-cuse is that by reason of the entente blockade the industries of Belgium have been paralyzed on account of lack of raw materials, thus preventing hundreds hun-dreds of thousands of men and women from obtaining work and making them objects of charity. It is claimed also that idleness has . hail a degenerating influence and that drunkenness and social so-cial depravity have increased as a result. re-sult. At any rate the deportations are continuing and it is feared they will interfere with plans of relief. Belgian children have ; not been receiving, re-ceiving, sufficient nourishment and an effort ef-fort is being made to collect a fund between now and Christmas for the purpose of providing a noonday meal for tho unfortunate little ones. The situation was brought to the attention of the civilized world by Chairman Hoover of the relief commission. Pope Benedict took the matter up and issued a' special appeal to the Catholics of the United States through Cardinal Gibbons, Gib-bons, the letter being transmitted to the .bishops and ordered read in all the churches throughout the country. During the week the German answer to the inquiry of the United States government gov-ernment concerning the sinking of the liner Arabia was received and proved to be unsatisfactory. Farther correspondence, corre-spondence, upon the subject is said to be contemplated and the attention of Germany will be called to the fact that promises regarding submarine warfare have not been kept. The French battleship Suffren, which left port on November 24, has not been heard from since and has been given up as lost ,by the minister of marine. The Suffren carried a complement of eighteen officers and 700 men and displaced dis-placed 12,750 tons. Entente shipping circles have been warned by the British naval authorities to be on the lookout for a strange vessel ves-sel believed to be a raider. Identity of the supposed raider is unknown, but it is suspected she may carry mines to sow off British ports. A ship captain arriving in London brought the startling news that a German Ger-man warship has succeeded in running the British cordon in the North sea and it may be necessary to convoy British merchantmen until the latest raider is sunk or captured. The vessel ves-sel is a light cruiser and it is possibly the same ship, supposed to be a merchantman, mer-chantman, against which the warning was issued. r An explosion of a Russian ammunition ammuni-tion plant has caused the death of about 1000 persons. Activity of German submarines has continued unabated during the week, the neutral nations being among the chief sufferers. The food supply of the entente allies is being seriously affected af-fected by the sinking of so many vessels. |