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Show PROGRESS OF THE WAR. After a few weeks of comparative lethargy the Germans have intensified their U-boat campaign, arguing, no doubt, that if the United States is re solved to get 500,000 troops into France by spring the transports must now be crossing the Atlantic in greater numbers num-bers than usual. The two weeks of quiet which preceded the drive were weeks of preparation. It is reasonable to suppose that the U-boats will exert their maximum power during the next twe or three weeks. One of the first ships to fall victim to the intensified submarine campaign was the Cunard liner Tuseania, which had ou board more than 2300 persons, of whom more than a hundred were members of the British crew, the rest being American troops, officers and officials and two women. bearing the coast of Ireland last Tuesday, under convoy of British destroyers, de-stroyers, the liner was torpedoed by an unseen U-boat. Two torpedoes, it seems, were fired, one missing and the other striking just abaft of midships. The explosions destroyed a number of lifeboats on the starboard side, while other boats were so jammed that it was difficult to lower them. In this crisis many leaped overboard anil began swimming about. Kor the most part, however, those aboard awaited rescue. The Americans lined up on one side of the vessel, singing the national anthem, while members of the British crew lined np on the other side and sang "God Save the King." The British destroyers were soon at the work of rescue, taking men and women from lifeboats, life-rafts and from the water. So efficient was the rescue work that fewer than 2"'J lives were lost; of thi number about 115 were Americans. The, liner remained afloat for nearly I an hour, v. hieh gave tbo'-e aboard adequate ade-quate time to get into the boats. In lone instance a lifeboat fell upon another ! lifeboat, killing and wounding a num-i num-i ber. The survivors were taken to two or J three ports in northern Ireland and a j few were landed at Glasgow, S-otland. On the preceding day the t unard lioer, Andania, had been torpedoed in the same waters, hut remained afloat J and probaSly was towed into port. In the last recorded week the British lost ten snips of more than ii'"."" tons. In the nejt few week" greater loss a must be looked for. The Ameiicans, hae taken over a small sector of the front in France. Apparently one of their base? is nt the mi;:ht fortre town of Ton, for tho front thy occupy is northwest of that place, at a point on th- French line some miles east of St. Mihi'l. The artillery duel between the Americans Amer-icans and Germans has been growing steadily fiercer. The American gunners gun-ners believe that they are holding their own with the veterans of the enemy army. They destroyed an entire front line trench of the Germans at. one point and forced them to dig a new trench :n this region. Fatrois have been bus;.- in ,o Man's l.nud a, id the Intent report from Ilcrlin i that some American soldiers have, j been cpj-tured in a raid. The (iermans jare nrtiitg watchdogs to warn them of i tic approach of American patrols, i The losses on our front have been conpi r,-i 1 1 elv light, indicating that, we ' ho'd only a few miles of the advancer! ! ;in' -, 1 at Ullflt llbletllv the line will be el.;iVl front week to tecb. i t h piu.Miiii -.ii-Ti in l-'rnnce bv ;iinz am! ot!i"i cr. '"sing the o-eau steadilv we ,-liouhl be able to hold an important . ser-toi and, if occasion thoubl require, ital.n ,iie n!fefmie, allhouh a big of-JlVit-i'e ;,v our men is not evpected u ! i I t ir-. r d a r I v siuniiii r. b'aidili con t i li nes to be the I in porta n 1 feature all alone, the I'm-ip Ii :ni, t"l::n o'ers front. IloMi sop h hate u cr r 'tr-eely Uelite vhlle Ihe !,ie joins lll.t e air. ;oi be;piii ;'ij;:Milic b'm, I ill r d men ' . to -i e the va ii v for Ihe "priu' Orivei, lu Ihe a i i I),.. fi;.hho;: h:i I, i on a 'i :.--hi le in I olh Fi-iiu I It;.!; . 'l b'' ail." , I'm..'!,. Hri(i-.. .....I lla: bioui'hl dotcti fif'y i- en '"t lliii "ll 1 lie - ill 11 I i"i I a do e a i,i -., I Tit" Alt",' l i ; I i I f. .-hov.eil mi j ii i 1 1 mi I ioo to recover some of the ground they lost to the Sardinian troops in tho mountains, moun-tains, but their reaction was quite insufficient in-sufficient to attain that object-In object-In Arabia the troops of the king of Hejaz, who has beeu an ally of the British for several years, decisively defeated de-feated Turkish troops east of the Pead sea, killing several hundred and capturing cap-turing 400. The entire Turkish force was destroyed. The red guards of the Bolsheviki have been waging fierce war against the bourgeois government, which set up the republic of Finland in the name of the people. Lenine and Trotzky, who have been revealed in secret documents as paid agents of Germany, are urging on the Socialists of Finland to overturn the bourgeois government. With the aid of the navy the Bolsheviki were able to control the cities of llelsingfors and Viborg and to drive the Finnish government northward. The Finnish commander. General llannerheini, has been able to hold his own in the later fighting and one report has il that he defeated the red guards in a great battle at Uleaborg and in that region, killing 3000 of them. Berlin official reports state a pence has been signed with the Ukraiue, which takes in most of southern Russia, Rus-sia, and is a rich agricultural region. At the Brcst-Litovsk conference there were two Ukraiue delegations. The first was sent by the republican government, gov-ernment, the other by the Bolsheviki. A peace with either can hardly be considered con-sidered conclusive. |