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Show PROGRESS OF THE WAR. Contrary to German hopes, thf! Russians Rus-sians urn "coniinjr laols." with marvelous mar-velous power. "When the Russians, despite de-spite their terriblo riefoats of the. sprinj an, summer, were, able to Tarry off moat of their fielrl artillery o0'1 maintain n unbroken front from Kiga to Bessarabia, Bes-sarabia, the f.ermans saw that the chief object of the campaign had failed and that tooner or later the soldiers of the far would once more, hurl themselves against the Teutonic lines. That the Muscovites have bean able to recuperate and reorganize with such success and to put so much power into their blows is a surprise not only to their enemies but to the world. The Russians, however, have before Ihem a niin-h greater task thaD that which confronted them alter the fall of Przemysl last March. While the Teutons Teu-tons may hae lost the initiative, the Russians have, a defensive line of appalling ap-palling strength to overcome. And yet I he Russians are maintaining at the present time two gigantic offensive movements, one ou their western front against the Germans and Austrians and one on their southeastern front against the Turks in Transcaucasia. About a year ago the Turks carried the war into Russia along a line stretch-ins stretch-ins eastward from the easternmost shore of the Black sea. At Ardahan. in Russian Rus-sian territory, and in that icinity, tbey met with crushing reverses and fell back to their own borders. Since theu the fighting in that region has lagged. A few months ago (irand Puke Nicholas Vas made viceroy of the Caucasus, was romoi ed from command of the western armies and sent to the Turkish front. Tt is now apparent that for a long time the Russians have been strengthening this front with men and supplies in spite of tho needs on their western front. About two weeks ago the Russians began be-gan an offensive movement, along a hundred-mile front within Turkish territory, ter-ritory, for a week the Moslems held them back, but six or seven days ago the Slavs pierced the Ottoman center north of the great fortress of Erzerum, The victors have now advanced to the very walls of Erzerum, which is about, a hundred miles south of the border. To the east, and west of that fortress the Slavs have completely routed their foes and have taken many prisoners and guns. And yet the Turks are still capable cap-able of powerful resistance and the grand duke has much work ahead of him before he can claim a complete victory. vic-tory. One reason for the choice of time for the offensive is to be found in the fact that several hundred thousand Turks held to face the English and French on the Galiinoli peninsula were set free for operations elsewhere when the allies quit the peninsula several weeks ago. Before Be-fore these Turks could possibly reach the Caucasus Grand Duke Nicholas had defeated and driven back his enemy and ho still has considerable time to cary on further operations before heavy reinforcements rein-forcements can come to the aid of the beaten armies. Ou Russia's western front, from the Fripct marshes to the border of Ku-mania, Ku-mania, the offensive which began a month ago is still in progress. Not much has been accomplished in the way of conquering territory, although the Rus-s:ans Rus-s:ans have advanced at several point, notably at Cr.artorysk, toward the northernmost cud of the line, but great looses have been inflicted upon the Austro-Germans. They probably have lost L'00,000 men and must keep on sending send-ing reinforcements against an enemy whose supply of men seems to be inexhaustible. inex-haustible. On the Riga front there also has been fighting. The Russians have taken advantage of the snowstorms to make surprise attacks, and in this way havc destroyed several German detachments detach-ments and taken some trenches. In Mesopotamia the British forces under un-der General Aylnier, after defeating the Turks at a point twenty-five miles from Kut, have advanced toward that town, where. 10,OL"I British are besieged. The Turks are still between the relieving force, and Ihe eitv, but the Rritish position po-sition is thought by the war office iu London to be favorable. In the Balkan theater of war, or rather in the Grecian theater of war, the allies have been fastening their grip deeper and deeper into, the king---"ni of Constantino. Not only hae thev elabli.-hed a vpst entrenched canipj around saioniki and adjac-nt ports, but thev have 0'''-upi"d the island of 1'o'fn, on the ye. ten, ,-oa-f of Groree, arid at' --every! other points on t h-' mainland in the neighborhood of Athens. Thejr pro-; fossed purpose. is lo deprive the Aus-y triaii and Germans of submarine bas, ; but Kin; ( .onstantine can tee, no ex-: ctise for this seizure of territory and is i makinc loud complaints. j The Mont'-m-grin kins. aft"r seeking! a -eparnte pea,-r. hi'Ii Au-tria. is again' on the warpath w.th his armies. The Austrian terms proved .-o rigorous that the king's officers and men refused, to surrender and expressed a determination to fight to the hitter end. For this pur- I pose they have retire! into southern Montenegio and northern Albania, in the region surrunndmg the town of Scutari. Scu-tari. K-a.l Ttn.hn, ih most powerful Albanian leader, v.ho became an enemy of Ihe Teutons at the time they altempt-ed altempt-ed to put a Teuton prim e on the throne of Albania, has moved northward to Scutari with 20.001 of his wild tribesmen tribes-men in an effort to help the Montenegrins. Montene-grins. In the Mediterranesn and Adriatic Ihe Austrian and German submarines have been taking further toll of victims. vic-tims. An English submarine, operating in the northern Adriatic, sank an Austrian Aus-trian hydroplane and a torpedo boat whi' h came to tho rescue. English, French and Italian warships bombarded Dedoagafeh and other Bulgarian Bul-garian ports on the Aegean coast, destroying de-stroying military properly. On the Italian front the Austrians gained some trenches by a swift offensive offen-sive movement caily in the week, but lal er lost them. In France and Flanders the fighting has been confined largely to artillery exchanges. Information concerning the destruction of an ammunition factory iu Lille indicates that (ho Germans suffered suf-fered heavily. The entire factory was wiped out and several hundred soldiers were killed. |