, 1915-04-22
WAR NEWS sun MARlzeD

the German line which holds con-
quered Belgium. Sharp fighting oc-
CURED In Belgium and the official
French report states that the British
captured 200 yards of German
trenches.
lieutenant Roland Garros, one of the
best known of French avlators,
whose exploits during the war won
him fame, has been captured by the
Germans.
Authenticity of official French and
British war reports ls CHALLENGED BY
the German war office, which char.
acterizes as inventions their claims
to victories.
Abandonment by the German general
STAFF Of plans for a general offensive
IN France is inferred in Rome from
Information received there. II Ia
said his decision Is Indicated by of.
fcial communications to the italian
cabinet.
A Geneva dispatch gives the impress.
sion that the Austrians and Ger.
mans haVe decided to concentrate
their energies on the eastern cam.
palgn.
Field Marshal Baron holman Won Der
ooltz has been appointed command.
er In chief Of the first Turkish army
Confident assertions from Berlin last
week that the Russian advance In
h c~arPathian regions had been
halted are offset by the claim of the
P~etrograd war office that the princI.
pal c"ain of mountains, comprising
q seVenty-five-mile section of the
front, Is now In possession of the
Russians and that 10000 Austrians
have been captured In the last few
weeks.
Count AiVaro de Romanes, former pre-.
mler Of Spain, has made a public
statement that q Solemn declara.
ton" should be mad by Spain to
show where its sympathy lies In the
war. He points out that Spain's re.
iations with the triple entente has
been more and more friendly during
recent years.
Travellers from Asia Minor say that
the situation in Smyrna Is terrible.
They state that bands Of Mussui.
man brigands are committing all
kinds of outrages, killing and taking
hostages, pllIaslng and burning
property.
That cotton Is being kept out of Ger.
many and Austria Just as effective.
iy as " il were declared absolute
~contraband Is the tenor of a repIy
addressed by British Attorney Ger.
eral Simon to a conference of chem.
lists and engineers who raised the
question whether the action taken
by the government was sufficient to
make It certain that no cotton reach.
es those countries.
That Germany intends to make a d.
rect issue with the United States Of
the continued expectation of arms
and munitions of war to the allies
was disclosed at Washington.
Activities In the r~ardanelles are taken
to presase an important movement
any day now against the Turkish
position on the straits.
As a result of a railroad accident
Swiss customs officers discovered
that a sealed car marked ~"vegeta.
bles," shipped from Genoa to Ger.
many, was loaded with Maxim guns.
The artillery was sequestered.
The London Times says that the car.
go of cotton of the American steam.
er Navajo, intended for Bremen,
ls being discharged and stored al
Maryport.
A Russian summary Of recent fighting
In the Carpathians announce the
principal chain of mountains, seven.
ty-five miles long, and 10000 prison.
ers taken.
Fighting continues in the vosges, Lor.
raine and Alsace.
A British Submarine, Els, operating
In mine fields In the D~ardanelles,
ran aground. Seven Of the crew are
missing and twenty-four were made
prisoners.
British airmen dropped bombs on the
Turkish encampment In Egypt near
the border.
The allied offensive on the western
front Is developing. According to
the allies, the offensive movement
has been In progress for several
weeks at strategic points from the
sea to the Alps, with successes.
Russians and Germans and .Austrians
appear to be deadlocked around the
uzsok pass, the pivotal point Of the
Carpathians.
A French aviator shelled FreIbure,
killing six children, a man and WON.
an. Several more children were in.
Jured.
Again the allies have assumed the of
fensive on the western line of battle
and, according to Paris, have made
gains in Terrain, capturing officers
n mel and guns and repulsed Ger
man counter attacks.
While there has been somewhat Of o
letuP In the violousness Of the Rus
sian attempt to get It's armies
through the c%arpathians and out or
the plains of Hungary, hard fighting
continues In some sectors.