The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1917-03-03
PROGRESS OF THE WAR

Ii has become impossible to discuss
the progress of the war by mere ref
erences to military and naval opera
tions. The war has resolved itself
into a combat in which, more than at
anv time since the outbreak of hos
tiIities. economic elements are even
more vital than the fighting by land
and sea.
The submarine warfare. the English
embargo against Injuries, the organi-
zation of intensive agriculture in
Great Britain and France. the speed
ing up of ship construction. all these
elements are having a decisive influ-
ence in what appears to be the last
year of the war. Nor can we lose
sight of such elements as the egreat
strike at the Krupp works in which
10000 employees are said to be in
volved. All this means that each
side is in race to see which can hold
out longest with its food and muni-
tions. Time tells not only against
Germany, but against the entente
powers. The grip of hunger sinks
more deeply into the throat of the
Teutonic giant, but at the same time
the Teutonic submarines are striving
with some signs of success to reduce
the enemy to similar plight.
In the middle of the month the
submarine warfare subsided while
the U-boats were on their way back
to port. Now they are out in the
barred zones again with full supplies
of torpedoes and suddenly we witness
a vast increase in the total tonnage
destroyed each day. Premier Lloyd
George of Great Britain tries to inn
press upon the English the necessity
of meeting the crisis not simply with
naval counterblows. but by economic
measures-the barring of all imports
except the necessaries of life and
of warfare. the acceleration of ship
building and the cultivation of all
available areas in the United King
dom.
In sAtlantic and Mediterranean
waters the Teutonic submarines have
delivered deadly blows. Many Dutch
ships laden with foodstuffs have been
sunk and Holland is in danger of
starvation. If Holland should starve
the occupation of her territory by
the Germans would be easy. Mean
time Germany is taking heroic meas
ures to prevent herself from starv-
ing. All the labor units of the coun-
try are being employed in some
fashion and all other labor units, in
cluding deported Belgians. Serbians.
Rumanians, French and Poles, as
well as prisoners of war. are being
put to work.
In the Mediterranean the Teutonic
submarines have sunk a big trans
port. the Athos. carrying troops from
Senegal, a French colony in West
Africa. probably to Saloniki for the
Spring offensive. Despite the fact
that the transport was guarded by
two warships it was torpedoed. More
than 400 persons were rescued. but
hundreds must have lost their lives.
Several other transports or armed
ships, one carrying Italian troops,
are reported sunk in the Berlin dis
patches.
Land operations have not been on
an extensive scale on the eastern or
western fronts. The English have
made several notable advances north
and south of the Ancre, which is
their left wing in the Somme region.
They have closed in around Petit
Miraumont on their way toward
Bapaume. German counter attacks
have failed as have French counter
attacks in the Champagne country.
The entente left wing in Macedonia
has joined the right wing of the Ital-
ians coming up from the Albanian
coast so that now the entente armies
may be said to maintain a line from
Avlona on the Adriatic to Saloniki on
the Aegean sea. An attempt will