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Show SUMMARY OF WAR SITUATION. Violent attacks are being delivered bv the Germans against the lines of i the allips between the districts of the Aisne and the Argonne. says the official offi-cial French statement Issued at Paris this afternoon 1 Thus far according to the statement these onslaughts have been repulsed The official announcement is brief, the French war office contenting itself with the added remark that there Is nothing new otherwise in the general situation. Germany Is prepared to finance a luUir war This assertion is made in I a dispatch from Berlin which passed through the hands of the British censor cen-sor at London. The war is costing Germany It Is stated $5,000,000 a day. The war loan has proven a success and with the various resources from which the government gov-ernment can derive the war levenue. It will he possible for Germany, It is stated to continue the struggle for a year with the money now in sight. A dispatch from Rome says that 300,000 troops have been assembled at Pola, the great naval port of Austria and that thorough preparations hav e been made against an attack from the sen. The hour for the battle which will Jetermine whether the Russians will make their proposed invasion of German Ger-man with Berlin as the final objective appears to be drawing near Official and unofficial advices indl cate a struggle In Russian Poland rivaling In desperation and posslbl In the numbers engaged, the battles of tho Marne and Aisne The main body of the Russians is moving toward the Posen frontier On its right another armv is supposed to he attempting to protect the larger body by stemming the rush southward of the German force that drove the Russian Invaders from East Prussia and now seeks to halt the westward movement At the same time the Russian army in Galicla Is pushing lis successes nt;alnst the Austrians and moving westward with the expectation of meeting the combined Austrian and German forces concentrating at Cracow, Cra-cow, on the Galician frontier. In a battle, that. If successful, will complete com-plete their campaign In Gallcla. The Germans are reported in strong force on the line from Kalicz to Cracow where they are said to be well intrenched in-trenched There Is every reason to believe that the real test of the Russian Rus-sian aggressive strength will not long bo delayed Again today the report that the Russians Rus-sians have crossed the Carpathian range and entered Hungary, captur ing Uzsok. Is repeated Uzsok lies in B line extending from Lemherg, the capital of Gallcla, southwest to Budapest. Buda-pest. There Is nothlntr to Indicate that the Russian diversion into Hungary Is any very important factor In their general strategy. Earlier reports that the Russians in Gallcla, had occupied B part of Przemsvl on their march to Cracow have not been confirmed in the Far East the Japanese ni itlsh attack on Kiao Chow, the German leased possession in China, mOYSB slowly. A battle between land forces has been fought on the outskirts of Tsing Tau, the seat of government of KiS ( how Tokio claims a vlctorj in the engagement, which does not appear ap-pear to have been on a vory reat Bcale German reports say that their forces fell back to their first line of defenses amund Tsinc Tau. HHflMBfljjjHj |