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Show NEITHER SIDE CLAIMING ANY PROGRESS, BEING CONTENT WITH GAINS MADE. Belief Growing That Roumania Will Throw Her Army of 400,000 Into the Conflict, and That Italy Will Enter the Fight. Only a change in the weather or the entrance into the war of Roumania Rou-mania or Italy, cr both, is likely tc bring about any marked change in the military situation in Europe for some time to come. What turn the weather1 will take no one can predict, but the belief is growing in those countries allied against Germany, Austria and Turkey, Tur-key, that Roumania with her well trained army of not less than 400.00C men will throw herself into the con diet at an early date. This, in effect, would link Roumania with the extreme ex-treme Russian left, now forcing its way into Hungary through Bukowina M'eanwhile the armies already in the field in the east and west remain virtually deadlocked. In Alsace the French continue, by sapping and sporadic spo-radic charges, attempts to force theii way nearer the Rhine, but there has been snow in the Vosges and it is no ticeabie that neither side claims any new progress. The Germans threw heavy reinforcements into Alsace af ter the recent French advance and apparently they have been able tc held their ground, in view of the failure fail-ure cf the French to consolidated the positions they took after much hard fighting. The official communications of the contending nations do not agree as to the outcome of the recent fighting in these areas. The allies claim to have forged ahead from Soissons; the Ger mans say these attacks have not beer fruitful and that fighting is proceed ing. Neither East Prussia nor Poland furnishes any change in the general situation, and strangely the Russians have added little with reference to the expected invasion of Hungary by way of Bukowina, although more than a w:eek ago they claimed to be at the threshold. It is conceded, however, that practically the whole of Buko wina is now in Russian bands and dispatches reaching London from Bucharest say that thousands of fugitives fugi-tives from that territory are crossing the Roumanian frontier, some of them proceeding to Vienna. It is in the developments arising from the occupation occu-pation of Bukowina that interest is now centered, as it is believed to have an immediate bearing on the Roumanian situation. |