The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1915-05-22
PROGRESS OF THE WAR

flerce lighting in France and Flan-
ders.
The French. after most careful
preparation, began a drive in the
region north of Arras and succeeded
in piercing the German line for
considerable distance along a wide
front. 1t is improbable. however,
that the French will be able to break
entirely through the German lines
of defense at this point. Nor is it
probable that such is the intention
of General Joffre. The Allies in the
west are still conducting their cam
paign of "attrition" to weaken their
foe. They do not feel strong enough
yet to attempt anything more. Their
warfare, therefore. is continuation
of the warfare throughout the Fall
and Winter. They are seeking to
cause the Germans as much loss as
possible without attempting to push
the enemy's lines out of France or
Belgium.
At Arras the French have carried
positions and villages which had been
so strengthened through more than
six months of work that they re-
sembled permanent Notifications.
The difficulties confronting the
French were enormous, but they
were well prepared. They had
brought up vast amounts of big-gun
ammunition with which to obliterate
the enemy's trenches, and their sup
ply of men was adequate. The Ger
mans sought to throw in heavy re-
Inducements, but for several days
were terribly handicapped in carry
ing out this operation. The French
aeroplanes had damaged the rail-
roads and it was necessary to take
the troops to the front in autos.
Travelling along exposed roads the
re-inforcements suffered heavy losses
while trying to reach the trenches on
the firing line. The net result of
the fighting is considerable advance
on the part of the French and a
heavy loss on the part of the Germans.
At Neuve Chapelle the English
made demonstration to keep the
enemy in front of them occupied. At
Ypres the Germans continued their
drive" gaining several important
positions. The losses on both sides
were great.
In the eastern theater of war the
Russians have fallen back to the San
river and the Austro-German forces
are approaching Przemysl. The Rus
SLAMS, after suffering gigantic losses
in killed. wounded and prisoners, are
trying to make a stand at the line of
the River San. Meantime the Rus
SLAMS have not been inactive at other
points. They have attacked at several
points in Poland to prevent the Ger
mans from detaching forces to the
aid of their victorious troops in Gal
icia. In the Baltic region battle
has been raging near Shawl, Russia,
where the Cars soldiers are seeking
to stem the tide of invasion. Here
they have met with some success,
but the Germans are holding their
lines fairly well. At the extreme
southeastern end of the line the Rus
slams are attacking the Austrian flank
in the hope of forcing the Germans
to deminish their efforts at other
points. The Russian movement in
this direction has prospered some
what. The Austrians have been
forced to retreat and have lost guns
and many prisoners.
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met with success and defeats. The
British battleship Goliath, commits
stoned in 1900, was sunk by Turkish
destroyers just outside the Darda-
nelles while it was protecting the
French flank on the Gallipoli penin-
sula. An English submarine pene-
trated through the Narrows into the
sea of Marmora and sank two Turk
ish gunboats and large Turkish
transport. On the Gallipoli penin-
sula the Allies have been advancing
slowly and at great cost.
General Botha. commander of the
Union of South Africa forces, has
occupied the capital of German south
west Africa and has taken prisoners
and supplies. In Uniontown the
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