Arizona republican., 1915-02-27
Continued Progress of the French and Pressure AL
 lies Are Bringing to Bear
 Makes Germans Active in the West
HURTING TROOPS
 THROUGH BELGIUM
Believed Germans Decide Are Able to Hold Rus sians While Carrying Out New Offensive on the Western Front
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPArcHl

LONDON. Feb. 26.-The continued progress the French are said to be making in the Champagne district and the pressure the allies without att tempting any great offensive are de- cared to be bringing to bear on the German line in the west have, accord
 ing to news from Holland, induced the Germans to make another effort in the west before the allied forces reach their maximum strength. By day and by night say the Dutch newspapers, big motor cars loaded with German sold iers are hurrying through Belgium tn the western front, the troops which had been sent to northern Belgium going back to the trenches.
 The fact that some troops now pass ing through Belgium come from the eastern front suggest to military ob- servers that the Germans have decided they will be able to hold the Russians in their present positions while carry ing out the new offensive in the west. The silence of the German general staff. which says there is no change at each front, is taken in London as
 
 der way. It is declared the allies are displaying no uneasiness.
 The allies believe the softness of the ground must prove q great disadvant age to the Germans and although ali the new troops of the allies are not ready yet. it is believed they will be able to repel any new attack. During l the last couple of days the British slightly improved their positions in the l region of LaBassee, while the French report further progress in the vicinity of Portnes and in the Argonne and re- peated successes by their artillery in destroying German guns and trenches. ! In the east a big battle along the Russian fortress line which follows the |, rivers almost the whole way from the Baltic to the Carpathians is still un- l decided
 1 The same is true also of battles in the 1 Carpathians and in Bukowina. Petro- grad dispatches. however. claim the Russians are more than holding their own in north and central Poland and that in the Carpathians they are mak- 1 ing such a steady advance that not only the Hungarian but Austrian arm l ies fighting in Bukowina are threat l ened
 No further news reached London of the DOmbardment of the Dardanelles i forts, but it is believed here the war | ships will now continue their attack until the straits are forced. One ef- feet of the preliminary success of the ! a11 ho ping of the price of wheat several points on the Liverpool exchange.
 A serious invasion of German South | west Africa by the Union South Africa forces is now under way. No further l losses as a result of the German sub
 marine and mine blockade are reported | Premier Asquith is expected to make
 a statement in the house of commons
 on Monday outlining the steps the al lies have decided upon in retaliation for | Germanys sea war zone.
 All the ground near the front of the line was plowed up with shells. l and furrowed with the remains of old trenches and graves. The whole place was vast cemetery in which our
 trenches and those of the enemy wind
 in every direction'
 1 This statement was made by q Bri- tish official, an eye witness at tho front, in a description of the recent battles southeast of Ypres.
 Tn sheltered spot he continued, there is a little grave yard where 1 some of our dead are buried. Their 1 graves are carefully marked by q | rough square of brick placed around | them. In front of the trenches the
 German bodies still lie thick. At one point in the brick fields recently some thirty men tried to rush our line. At their head was a young German offi- cer who came on gallantly waving his sword. He almost reached the
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