The Ocala evening star., 1915-01-22
WORLD NEWS FOR THE WEEK

steady fighting in spite Of bad wealth
err, but with no decided results. The
most spectacular event was the Ger
man airship raid on the east coast OF
England Tuesday night. A German
airship squadron, the strength of
which is unknown, crossed the North
Sea to that part of England that bull
ges out north of the Thames and
south of The Wash, and dropped
score or more of bombs in Yarmouth
and several other towns, most of
them little country villages and entire
ly undefended. Five civilians were
killed and thirty wounded, perhaps
S1OO, 900 worth of private property de-
stroyed and the invaders escape un-
scathed. To an American, such an at
tack seems wanton and foolish, as bad
as piracy and so far as the result is
concerned. more useless.
On the long battle line from the
North Sea TO Switzerland, there has
been no. change this week, tho last
week the French made some advance
in Alsace. The Germans few days
ago made a strong advance near Sois-
sons and drove the French back at
several points. The advance was
checked, but it gave the allies great
concern for a.. couple of days. On
the rest of the line, both sides have
made small gains, and the allies
seem to have made a few more than
the Germans. Soldiers in both armies
suffer from the weather.
Bloody fighting goes on in the mud
and snow in Poland. The second or
third attempt of the Germans to adj
vance to Warsaw seems to have met
with bloody repulse, but the Ger
mans yet hold large part of west
ern Poland. In fact, with the ex-
lception of an unimportant part of East
Prussia, the Germans have SO far sue
ceeded in keeping invaders off their
soil.
Austria has not been so lucky. The
Russians captured Lemberg early in
the war, they are beseiging Przemysl
and ride at will over most of Galicia
which is a province about as big a:
the state of West Virginia. The Rus
slams are also advancing into The
smaller province of Bukowina, anc
threaten to break thru the passes o.
the Carpathians into Hungary. On
the side of Austria, the war has gon,
much in favor of Russia.
The. only definite victory of the las
week or more has been that of tn
Russians over the Turks in the eau
casus. A large Turkish force whicl
advanced into that mountainous coun
try was routed and almost annfhilat
ed. The Russians also seem to b
having things their own way in tn
Black Sea, in spite of the addition o
the Goeben and Breslau to the Turk
ish navy. The Turks continue t
threaten to invade Egypt, but so ia
have not gone any further than PaleS
tine.
There has been no important SUE
cess on either side on the sea.
There is no reason to hope for a
N early end of the war. 1t may be trul
Y said, that while the Germans hav
r. failed to do what they believed the
t could do at the beginning, and ths
d victory is impossible for them, the
IT strength has been but little impaire
{ and they are in position to fight fl
ie long time. On the other hand, nor
= = Of the allies except Belgium have "
N put forth their full strength. Fran,
: will probably have her maximu
y strength on the battle line in Il
Z spring, but the British and Russis
i empires have Iimitless millions
le draw on. There is little reason
: hope the war will close this year.
re The war was for day lost sig
= Eof last week when another gre
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q q covered was larger in extent than tn
5, CT the Sicilian earthquake of a fe
10 years ago, but the damage done w
= not so great. The territory mo
: sffscted was in the neighborhood
ID Rome. Thirty or forty thousand pc
a, pie were killed and twice as ma
injured, and the property loss was Q
er a hundred millions.
=. The dispute between the Unit
W States and Great Britain, over int
y fering with neutral cargoes, does +