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Show RULERS WITNESS BATTLEINPOLAND KAISER AND CZAR ENCOURAGE TROOPS BY THEIR PRESENCE AT THE FRONT. Report Reaches Vienna of the Retreat Re-treat of Russians in Bukowina, Where the Austrians Took Large Number of Prisoners. Engagements of a minor nature in the western war zone and a continuation continua-tion of the extended battles in Poland Po-land and the Carpathians comprise the meager news contained in the official offi-cial statements regarding the conditions condi-tions at the various tuattle fronts. Emperor William has visited a company com-pany of Silesian landwehr, while the Jlussian emperor is also engaged in encouraging his troops by his presence pres-ence in the field. Vienna reports1 the retreat of the Russians in Bukowina, where the Austrians Aus-trians have succeeded in taking 1,200 prisoners and occupying Kimpolung in the south. The Dardanelles forts, according to information from Athens, have been bombarded by the allied British and French warships. Two ammunition depots are said to have been set on fire. Spain has sent to the United States two representatives to purchase arms and soon also will buy several aeroplanes aero-planes here. The British foreign office, in a statement state-ment bearing on the flying of the American flag by the Cunard linir Lusltania, although it does not mention men-tion this incident, declares that the use of a neutral flag is, within certain limitations, well established in prao tice. The British government maintains main-tains that, as it has not objected to foreign merchant vessels using the British flag as a ruse for evading capture cap-ture at sea at the hands of a bellig-e-ent, a British merchant vessel is entitled en-titled to assume neutral colors for a similar purpose. The Turkish authorities in Hodeida Arabia, have saluted the flag over the Italian consulate and thereiby ended the incident caused by the removal of the British consul from the consulate. The Montenegrin consul general in London reports that complete anarchy an-archy reigns in Albania. He states that Albanian bands are murdering and pillaging Montenegrin subjects and that all merchandise along the river Boyana is confiscated and held for enormous ransom. |