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Show FRANCE SCENE OF SEVEREJF1GHT1NG GERMANS HAVE BEEN EXCEEDINGLY EXCEED-INGLY ACTIVE IN EASTERN AND WESTERN THEATRES OF WAR. Eye-witne'ss Says Really Marked Progress Prog-ress Has Been Achieved by Allies, Although German Defensive is Active One. Although severe fighting has been going on in France during the past day or two, it has been rather discounted dis-counted by the Russian successes against the Turks in the Caucasus and against the Austrians in the Carpathians. Carpa-thians. In the eastern and western theatres the Germans have been exceedingly active. Steady progress is noted in their official statements regarding the operations in Poland and the French official bulletin reports violent German attacks in the Argonne In the region of Verdun and around Steinbach, in Alsace. Details of the fighting, as usual, are lacking, as the long-drawn-out battles are referred to briefly seemingly as a matter of routine, unless something of an extraordinary nature occurs. Regarding the operations in the west, as a whole, a British eye-witness, who has been the regular chronicler of events, says that "really marked progress prog-ress has been achieved by the allies." He says, however, that "the German defensive is an active one," and that it must not be inferred that the progress prog-ress made has been other than very slow and laborious, or that the final result is within immediate reach. Berlin reports that a Turkish official bulletin announces the occupation by the Ottoman troops of Uumiah, an important im-portant town of Persian Armenia. The German military government in Belgium gives denial to the report that Cardinal Mervcier, primate of Belgium, Bel-gium, has been arrested and detained by the German authorities. Neither have any priests been arrested, it is asserted. |