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Show HGHTIi WA6ED Ofj LAP.8E SCALE 'BATTLES FOR THE CARPATHIAN PASSES CONTINUE WITH EXTREME VIOLENCE. 6n the West Front the Commanders ; Are Waiting for Better Conditions. ; Operations In Dardanelles Being Continued. 'The ;battles for the Carpathian passes pass-es continue with extreme violence, this being the only region where, for the moment, fighting on a large scale 5s taking place. In the west the commanders are waiting ior 'better conditions before making any effort on. a large scale, although the F'rench here and thert are attempting to capture .position which would give them an advantage when the .general offensive is decided decid-ed upon. Their more recent efforts have been directed against the heights of the Meuse, to the east and south of Verdun, in which both they and the Germans claim to have made gains. The objects of these operations is to compel the Germans to evacuate St. Mihiel, where their line reaches the River Meuse, causing a considerable consider-able bending of the French front In the Dardanelles except for a battleship bat-tleship throwing shells into batteries at Kilid Bahr, there has been nothing going on except the work of the mine-sweeperSj mine-sweeperSj Of the operations in the Dardanelles nothing has 'been officially published for some days. It is supposed that the allied fleet is waiting for the mine sweeper's to complete their work before be-fore the attacks on the forts are renewed, re-newed, and perhaps also for the arrival ar-rival of reinforcements of ships, men and ammunition. Upon the success of these operations opera-tions depends not only the fate of Turkey, Tur-key, but probably the future policy of the Balkan states and Italy. In Italy big demonstrations were held calling upon the government to take action to realize the ambitions ol the country; while in the Balkan cap itals the diplomats of the., allied nations na-tions are busily engaged in an endeavor en-deavor to reorganize the Balkan league and insure the simultaneous' intervention in-tervention of all the Balkan powers on the side of the allies. Before this can be done, Serbia must be induced to make concessions to Bulgaria in that part of Macedonia which fell to her after the last Balkan war. The Germans also are active in Sofia and are trying to induce Bulgaria, Bulga-ria, by the cession of part of European Europe-an Turkey, to remain neutral. German submarines are again operating oper-ating in the Irish sea and it is believed be-lieved that at least one more steamer steam-er has 'been sunk ;by them. |