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Show RULERS WITNESS THEF1GHTING Loudon, Fob. 7.? Four torpedo boats of the allies have bombarded tho Turkish forts In tho Dardano los, according to an Athens dispatch to tho I'MhuiijU Telegraph company, during .ti..d 171 shells woro discharged dis-charged an j t6 ammunitions depots Aofu set Cu nlo. London, 1 tid. 7. With tho Oor-man Oor-man and iiu-bUiii emperors as eyewitnesses, eye-witnesses, the aiin.es of Hussia and Germany mu still contending for tho position wtfiell protects tho Polish tnpltal of varsnw from the Invaders. TIiq HutHli.li emperor has been nt Kus slan hctuhiiiurtorB for sovorul das, and tho German report Bays tho German Ger-man oiin. el ul' has Joined his general' troops in their trenches Npthlug has been disclosed ns to tho progicbs of tho battle which, when tho Hist reports wcro received, was ragging with unabated fury, Tho Itussiaus, according to Saturdays official statement, had strengthened tliolr posticus on the western bank of tho Uzum river, which they had crossed cross-ed near Its mouth, and lapturod a long line of German trenches near Dorjlmow, which has been the center of most dtspointo lighting. Another Battle Develops. In KaU I'uishIu another big battlo is dovokplng, tho Germans having sent rctn.orcemcnts nppaienty from tliolr 11utu fiont to that region. In the Carputhlans, whllo their right Is advancing, tho Husslaus aro ublo to report only that their left has clicked click-ed tho Austro Gorman offensive. With regaid to nil this lighting tho Go man olllclal report simply says. "No osBcntlnl events have taken placo." 'Iho lighting In the west Is moroly n repetition of that of tho preceding dayu. Thoro havo been lively artillery artil-lery dulcs and a tow Infantry attacks, in which both Bides claim to have gained sotno ground. No further lighting In Ugypt Is re ported. Tho Turkish account of that which hns nlready occurred there ro-fers ro-fers to It ns cucountor of vanguards, and adds that tho battles are stl.l in ,irogrcbs. 'I his probably Is a delayed announcement. Iho Italian roport of tho return of ilaron llurlun, tho Austro-IIungarlan foreign minister, from his visit to the Gel nun emperor says that the Austrian Austri-an cabinet found tho results sattsfact ory, but wo woro not inclined to glvo nentlno to Italy and part of Tran-ii)Ivunia Tran-ii)Ivunia to Koumanln as tho price of contlued neutrality on tho part of Jiosu countries. 'Jurkoy Iiub at last given Italy satisfaction satis-faction for tho llodolda Incident. Tho British consul has been released and .he Italian Hag saluted. L'ngllsh refugees from Constnntl noplo declare that the former German ciulser Goobon.now owned by Turkey Aas so badly damaged by striking a Turkish initio that It will" bo Impossible Impossi-ble to repair hor nt Constantinople This virtual loss ot tho sorvlccs ot tho Ooebon reduces th0 Turkish lloet to a Btato of Inferiority ns compared with the Hussion Black sea Hoot, which is about to bo stronghtened by a new dreadnought constructed at Sobaatopol. It Is believed that whon .his ship Joins tho fleet Itussla will attack tho Uoaporous and tho lilack ea whllo tho allied fleets attempt to orco tlio Dardanollos. Popo Benedict's prayer for pcaco was read In all tho Catholic churches In England and Franco today. |