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Show lure of Europeans from Turkish territory. terri-tory. Russia has officially denied the report re-port that she has ceded half of the island of Sakhalin to Japan. Emperor Nicholas is again with the Russian army at the front. A regiment of Italian sharpshooter is on its way to Aviona, Albania, to re lleve the sailors landed there iabt week to put down disorders. Nona Q) the powers has prptested agalowt Italy's occupation pf Aviona. Turkey is said to be reinforcing hei troops defending the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus with soldiers and artillery artil-lery from the Adrlanople garrison. FlICIIMOP BOMBS OH METZ COMPARATIVE QUIET IN FLANDERS FLAN-DERS WITH NO PROGRESS ON EITHER SIDE. Gsnroans Announce That They Are Still Advancing on Russians, While Russians Claim to Have I Checked Austrian. Comparative quiet prevails in the western theater of war. In Flanders the cannonading has been intermittent, intermit-tent, but in the Argonne region and Alsace there have been attacks and counter attacks with no material progress pro-gress on either side. French aviators, in the way of. a, reply re-ply to the dropping of bombs on Nancy by the Germans, flew over the aviation hangars of Flescar, one of tEe railroad stations of Metz, throwing throw-ing down bombs in their flight. Notwithstanding the fact that a recent re-cent official statement announced that the Germans had ceased their attacks at-tacks on the Bzura river in Russian Poland, latest advices from Berlin indicate in-dicate that they are still advancing in that region. Petrograd, however, asserts as-serts that along the Bzura and Rawka rivers the fighting of late has been confined to artillery fire. The Austrians in Galicia, the Russian Rus-sian general staff asserts, have beeD driven back in the neighborhood of Tarnow, where many prisoners were taken. The Austrians are reported to have retreated in disorder. Similarly they are said to have - been forced back from the line running from Zmi-grod Zmi-grod to Dukla in the Carpathians, with enormous losses, including 10,000 proa oners. The British raid on the German coast with seaplanes has apparently netted, small results. Four of the sevea seaplanes were lost and one ol the British officers is thought to have been drowned. The attack, however brought about a unique engagement, in which submarines, cruisers, seaplanes, sea-planes, destroyers, aeroplanes and Zeppelins took part. With the return to Paris January 7 of th.e ministry of war from, Bordeaux,, all branches of the French government govern-ment again will have their headquarters headquar-ters ia Paris whence they departed when the Germans were closely press ing on. the capital. Italy has ordered the eruiser Calabria, Cala-bria, at Beirut, Syria, to render any necessary aid to the American cruiser North Calorila, should there be further fur-ther demonstration against the depar- ' |