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Show I PROGRESS OF THE WAR. I When the Germans began their unrestricted unre-stricted submarine warfare they estimated esti-mated that if they could sink 1,000,000 tons of shipping a month they would accomplish their object of starving Great Britain and so handicapping the shipment of munitions that the entente powers could not continue the war. The ruthless subsea warfare commenced com-menced on February 1 and reached its maximum in the period between February Febru-ary 5 and 10. Since then it has fallen off about 100 per. cent from the maximum. maxi-mum. By February To, inclusive, the Teutons had sent to the bottom about 215,000 tons, or a trifle more than half the amount they had reckoned from the outset as necessary to attain the goal they had set for themselves. The losses of the entente powers and of neutrals have been serious, but some of these losses must be listed as naval rather than marine. Most of the trawlers trawl-ers sunk have been armed submarine hunters. The biggest ship destroyed in the last week was the Afric, 11,500 tons, the largest freighter in the world, which plied between South African ports and England. The only American vessel reported re-ported as sunk was the Lyman M. Law, a schooner of 1300 tons, which was attacked at-tacked probably by an Austrian submarine, subma-rine, as the sinking took place in the Mediterranean. The first German attack on a large scale for some weeks was launched iu the Champagne country, southwest of Ripont and about thirty-five miles west of Verdun. The French were driven from trenches on a front of more than a mile to a depth of half a mile. They lost about about 900 prisoners and twenty machine gnns. For some reason the Paris reports have maintained silence si-lence on the subject. The only reference refer-ence to fighting in this region was the mention of heavy artillery firing near Maisons de Champagne. The English have been conducting two kinds of raids those on the Somme and Ancre, where all ground gained is kept, and those on all other fronts held by the British, where the raids end in retirements after trench systems have been wrecked and prisoners taken. On the Gorizia front there has been infantry fighting. . The Anstrians succeeded suc-ceeded in taking several trenches from the enemy. The Italians have also been battling in Macedonia at the point where their Albanian forces have effected ef-fected contact with the left wing of the allies. The Teutons and Bulgarians stormed hill 1050, known also as Para-lovo Para-lovo mountain, and captured it. For several days the Italians strove to recapture re-capture the hill, but were driven back with considerable losses. Finally, however, how-ever, they retook all of the lost trenches. Along the Russian and Rumanian fronts there have been numerous clashes of a minor character. Fighting which may mean a new Teutonic offensive is said to have begun on t lie "Rumanian front. In the region of Kut-el-Amara the British have pressed forward iu the bend of the Tigris river and have driven the Moslems into their last line of trenches along a front of 5000 vards. One of the German raiders is said to have been sunk on the coast of Brazil, Bra-zil, but the report has not bee:i l0n. firmed. According to the noon, the British cruiser Amerhys; s'gi.tcd three vessel: which cleared for action. A running fight took place, iu which cue of the trio was sunk, the others eaca;,. ing in the darkness. ' The rp'rnvm dc-t-oye- Y.0:-l. whi.-h wa3 driven into tho Dutch harbor of Ymuiden badly damaged several -weeks ago, has arrived in Germany. According to the Hamburger Xach-richterj, Xach-richterj, two large ammunition factories at Thorn, East Prussia, and at Ghieek-anf, Ghieek-anf, in Quickborn, near Hamburg, were destroyed by explosions. Sixty-three persons r.-prkilb'd and the same number num-ber wounded. |