, 1915-03-06

it continues, provide such a guarantee,
even should she send a host Of American
officials TO Germany to supervise the destina-
ton OF food in every town and village Of
the Empire ? Who would decide, in the event
of disputes arising between the United
States inspectors and German dealers? We
are satisfied that Americans will perceive
the impracticable nature of the project set
forth in the German answer - the Mote
OF the United State. ii recalls the block
AIDE which prevented cotton from reaching
Lancashire during the American Civil War,
and asks, may the British people not hope
to-day, when they ale plunged against their
viii into a conflict yet more deadly and for
aims not less high, that America will 40 unto
them as, in the days of her trial, they d1d
unto her
A Petrograd official statement says: con
Monday and Tueday between the Niemeu
and the Vistula, IN Northern Poland, the
Germans delivered attacks, and Yesterday in
the region Of OssoWetz many attempts los
the enemy to approach the fortress were
repulsed. In the region Of Grodno and other
sectors OIL our whole front our troops contin-
ued to progress. We took by assault the
village OF herjen, Oh the left bank Of .he
river Amouletf, whore we took as prisoners ten
officers and II certain number of soldiers and
captured two rapid FIRE guns. IN the Car
patb.ans, between tie Oudaya and the San,
we continue with complete success to re-
pulse the formidable stacks of the Auatriane.
Tie Germans delivered ruthless attacks IN
he regions OF Koz uWka and Rojanka, and
at the latter point we succeeded in enyelod-
ing and aunihilatng two German companies.
IL East Galicia the Austrians who were
defending the passages Of the river Lomnitza
suffered Il new and very serious check, our
troops hl'c fighting crossing the river and
occupying the village of krasma. The fol
loving day We took SIX thousand prisoners,
with eixty-fouI officers, four cannon, seven
rapid fire guns and a large quantity Of regi-
meut aud division taius".
An Austrian oficaI statement says: oIn
the CGIpathiaus, west OF he Uzsok Pass, the
lighting has developed to a large extent
into engagements for he possession of I'M
Foltant he eht, and ines and several Russian
couuter-attacks have been repulsed with
great loss TO tie elemy. During the day
several local successes were gained along our
tqttle front, aud ~ an assault on "a ridge
north Of Cisuu we took four hundred prison
ers. Vigorous lighting is III progress alone
the whole of our blttie front III SOuth-east
Galica'.
A French official communicate states
From the aea 10 tle Aiaue here has been
cauuonading Wjth y1nying intensity and the
Germans nave agiiu bombarded Rheims
with incendiary shells. Ia the Champagne
region on the front north Of Souain, Moenll
and Beauseiour, our progress continues and
we are holding ON the entire attacking front,
uameIy, over "a distaf g. exceeding SIX kIo
metres, the totai OF the German lines repre-
senting q depth II one LiIometre. Our pro-
gress on Wednesday Was particularly marked
west Of Perjhes, where We captured trenches
extending overa position in the woods. We
also gained ground north Of Mesnil, and ia the
same region repulsed several violent counter
attacks il which regiments of Prussiau
Guards sustained enormous losses. Since
our last communication we have made about
one hundred prisoners and captured a ma
chine Uun. Several German attacks have I