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Show RUSSIANS HOLDING GROUND GAINED HAVE BEEN BUSY REPULSING AUSTRO-GERMAN ATTACKS SOUTHEAST OF LUPKOW. British Capture Hill Near Ypres, Giving Giv-ing Guns of the Allies Command of a Considerable Area Occupied Occu-pied by Germans. Further details have been published of the British capture of hill 60 near Yypres. Very severe fighting. in which both sides Buffered heavy losses took place at this point. j The British success is declared by : Field Marshal French to be an important im-portant one, as it gives the British guns command of a considerable area occupied by the Germans and paves the way for an attack on the passages of the I-ys, by means of which the towns of Lille, Roubalx and Turcoins can be approached. Along the rest of the western front there has been considerable fighting at separate points, but no battles oil importance have occurred. ! In the eastern zone the Russians have been busy repulsing Austro-tler-man attacks in the direction of Stry nnd to the southeast of hupkow pass and have themselves captured another height on the eastern Roszauka chain of the Carpathians. The British admiralty rcpor's a brilliant "cutting out'' operation in the Dardanelles. Young officers and seamen from the British ships volunteered volun-teered for tho dangerous task of destroying de-stroying the submarine 1-M.", which stranded under the Turkish guns and I which It was essential should not fall into the hands of the Turks. They did their work well and all that was left of the craft was a tangled mans of Iron from which the Turks are not likely to learn any of the secrets of the lateut British submarines. Although Al-though tho plucky crews In their little lit-tle boats were subjected to a heavy tire, they escaped with the loss of one man. The Austro-Itallan slluatlon Is still shrouded in mystery. A (ierman wireless wire-less dispatch says that the recent frontier incident has t n settled, but dispatches by way of Paris describe the position as hopeless. |