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Show SUBMARINES SINK BRITISH STEAMER WAR ON ENGLISH VESSELS CONTINUES CON-TINUES AND EVEN AMERICANS AMERI-CANS DO NOT ESCAPE. American Vessel Carrying a Cargo of Cotten Strikes Mine. Russians Claim to Have Put Check on German Advance. Chief interest in the war centers in the operations of German submarines in the waters around the British isles. The British steamer Downshire has been blown up In the Irish sea, while the American steamer Evelyn, with a cargo of cotton from New York to Bremen, has been sunk by a mine near Borkum island in the North sea. From Berlin comes the report of the sinking of a British transport with troops and an "accompanying steamer," steam-er," but the scene of this incident is not given. Regarding the destruction of the Evelyn, the first American vessel to be sunk since the outbreak of the war, the authorities at Washington have ordered or-dered a full inquiry. The report of the sinking of the British transport was sent out on the authority of a German news agency, but neither Berlin nor London has made any official announcement concerning con-cerning the report. The latest official anouncement from Paris regarding the operations in the west describes considerable progress made by the allies in the Champagne district and the repulse of the Germans at various points along the southern end of the line. In the eastern war zone Russia claims to have put a check on the German advance by the aid of strong reinforcements. There is little change to record in Galicia, the Carpathians or Bukowina. The Turkish grand vizier, Prince Said Salim, declared during an interview inter-view that to have joined with Great Britain, France and Russia would have been harmful to the interests of the country; that the powers of the triple entente had been actuated by hyprocrisy in dealing with Turkey, and that the Turkish people, desiring an opportunity to work out their destiny, des-tiny, became participants in the war. He denounced the assertion that Turkey Tur-key is bound to pass under the sway of Germany as absurd. A hostile aeroplane is said to have dropped bombs' near Braintree, Colchester, Col-chester, Marks Tey and Goggeshall, England, towns virtually within fifty miles of London. |