Show f FIERCE FIGHTING IN l CARPATHIAN HILLS HILLSt t i 1 CLASHE CLASHES ARE OF DESPERATE CHARACTER BUT WITHOUT DECISIVE RESULTS In Poland and East Prussia Steady Fighting Continues All Along 1 Front Front While in France and BelI Belgium Bel Bel- I Jo gum glum Troops Are Resting l Y t k it The and the crown crownland tr land of f claim most attention attention atten- atten atten atten- I V tion i In the campaign in the eastern war zone The battles in the Carpathian Car Car- lulls hills are of a desperate character character char char- 0 acter but without decisive T result p Pi- Pi while latest reports indicate the with with- withdrawal of of the Russian forces in Buk Buk- Dwina owina The TIle Austrians claim to have p driven the Russians back sack In the south em era an districts of and to have occupied the important town of t Waina Vama t In Poland and East Prusia steady j. j t fighting continues along fronts extending extending extending ex ex- ex- ex tending over many ninny miles the very I length of which and the vast numbers 1 k of or me men contending making malting It Impossible impossible os Elbl sible to estimate the value of the small advances or repulses at various I points with respect to the final result t In France and Belgium there is a i w. w period of comparative tive calm although I f In ILL the Argonne the Germans have haved L d made several advances t l' l T The e German foreign secretary Herr Hel f 1 J von von Jagow takes oc occasion to explain j there the recent enl announcement of f Germany Germany t. t regarding naval measures to be taken l against hostile commercial J. r He lIe denies that a blockade is intended i l and declares that Germany has merely meraJ mere mere- J c- c ly designated the waters in hi question as s a war area with the intention of conducting war operations in that re re- re- re gion glon He urgently warns neutral i shipping to avoid the indicated war zone zone As yet rel according to Herr von JagOW Jagow Ja Ja- Ja- Ja gOW gow G has received no no protests pro pro- I tests test from neutral states concerning M he the admiralty admiralty's s action Copenhagen reports however tb that t tH H the Scandinavian countries and a at i land nd are arranging for common action f vil with Tilt regard to the Germ German n proclamation 1 tion ui of a war zene zone in British wa waters ers r In the Russian duma which has reassembled reas reas- Premier made madel l the announcement that the Russian i army rm- rm notwithstanding all its losses AI vas as as now stronger than ever Th The I 55 foreign minister M. M called a f attention to the new financial and economic entente between the allies l c which he said will materially assist as r S 1st in bringing the struggle against k t. t 2 Germany to a successful end l ic Referring to the entrance of Turkey y Into inin the war the foreign minister sigi sigS significantly sig sig- sig- sig i S remarked that the events i. i on the Turkish Russo-Turkish frontier would bring Russia to a nearer solution of ot i the political cat and economic problems up with the question of Russia's access to the open opell sea |