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taken recently by the enemy. Else
where along the battle line the fight
ing has once more relaxed, being linn
tied chiefly to artillery engagements.
The British warships mentioned by
Berlin as having been disabled by Ger
man artillery fire from the shore are
all small vessels. They are the torpedo
boat destroyer Falcon, the light cruiser
Brilliant and the sloop of war Rinaldo.
No details of the extent of damage in
Aicted are gwen by Berlin, which has
the report from Geneva.
In London it is rumored that a large
force of Germans around Dixmude has
been cut of by the foods. The inundat.
ed country now extends south of Dix
nude to within three miles of Blk
schoote, about half way to the French
border. In other sections snow has fal-
len, and the hardships endured by the
men on the firing line, as described by
persons returning from the front, are
frightful. At points the Germans are
said to have been literally swept out
of their trenches by the flood. Guns
and ammunition wagons are imbedded
in the mud, and countless corpses float
about.
The Russians apparently are concen.
trating their efforts on the capture of
Cracow and Przemysl, in an effort to
crush completely the Austrian army be.
fore making their main advance on Ger
man territory. Converging forces are
marching on Cracow, the siege of which
is believed in Petrograd to be near. The
Austrian garrison at Prezemysl, accord.
ing to an official Austrian statement.
made a successful sortie from the in
vested fortress. From the same source
1t is reported that the Germans are
masslng their forces at strategic points
In the eastern provinces of Posen and
Sllesia, preparing for the expected Rus.
sian advance.
Petrcgrad acknowledges that the Sc.
we're attacks of the Turks in the eau
casian regions near the eastern shores
OF the Black Sea, have halted the Rus.
sian movement. The advance guards of
the Russians have been compelled to
fal back, the Turks having received
large reinforcements. An official Turk.
ish statement to-day asserts that the
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The Austrian operations against
Servia, according to official sdvices
from Vienna, are proceeding success.
fully. The Servians rallied before the
Austrian advance in Northwestern Ser.
via, but are now said to have been COM
PEELED again to fall back before the in.
vaders.
Britain's problem OF dealing with
the Moslems was brought up sQuarely
by the German statement that the
hhedive of Egypt had departed from
Constantinople, where he had been since
the beginning of the war, to assume
command of the Turkish forces operat-
ing against Egypt. Another report of
dissension in British possessions. CON-
1ng from the same source, was to the
effect that the leader of the Bedouins at
Alden q British possession in Arabia,
was calling on his people to rise to
arms against their rulers.
The expected encyclical of the Pope
was issued to-day. 1t is an appeal for
peace. and attributes the war to lack
Of mutual love among men, contempt
for authority. injustice on the part of
one class of people against another and
the consideration of material welface
as the sole object Of His candidacy