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EUROPEAN WAR DEVELOPMENTS The Germans making are i rviui press to the great fortress of Novo OJeorgiewsk guarding Warsaw from the north it was officially admitted at Petrograd Strong bodies of the kai ¬ sers troops are assing in a southwesterly direo tion along the Bohr and Xarew rivers toward Przasnyz where a great Gorman force is concen ¬ trating These comprise several divisions that participated in von Hindenbnrgs campaign against the Russians in east Prussia New battles have begun southwest of 1rzasnyz where the Germans from thi Maznrian lakes region have effected a junc ¬ tion with the army moving upon Novo Georgiewsk from the northwest in the IMonsk region In Hus ¬ sion ollicial circles the new German drive upon War ¬ saw is not viewed with alarm but the grand dukes forces in this region are being strongly reenforced The lighting around the fortress of Ossowiee and w st of Grodno continues with the Germans making vain efforts to make the Ossowiee fortress by swing Ins around the forts to the north So close has the enemy approached to Ossnwiee that the guns of the outer defenses have been brought into play The lighting there and near Grodno however is re ¬ garded as incidental to the main Gerr nient upon Novo Georgiewsk The govei the Pelrograd papers yesterday made no aiicmiii l i conceal from the public the fact that the grand dukes army had met with serious reverses in east Prussia It is pointed out however that in the Carpathians the Russians continue a successful de ¬ fense of ImiMiilant passes Repulses of the Aus ¬ trian and Germans at several points on lie western battle fiout are claimed by the Russians in an ollicial communication It Is stated that in eastern Galieia southeast of Slanislau two brigades of Austrian were driven oil with a loss of 1 IK pri ¬ soners including twenty oliicers and several ma ¬ chine guns gunsThe The Norwegian steamer Rcgln was sunk off Dover yesterday morning y cither a submarine or a mine Tlw crew of twentytwo men was saved The Re gin which was carrying coal from the Tyne ti deanx sank teii minutes after it was struck Regin is the second Norwegian steamer to eiicouiini a submarine or a mine lu the English channel since February 18 wlien the Gorman submarine blockade against British ports went Into effect The tank steamship Belgrade was torpedoed by a German submarine oT Folkestone last week Disaster has overtaken two other Norwegian steamships in the last few days The Nordyku went down in the Ialtie last week supposedly as a result of striking a mine or being torpedoed and the Cuba a freight ¬ er bound from London to Rotterdam sank February 21 in the North sea after a collision collisionAt At the French war ollice the following statement was given out The Irmbardment of Reims yester ¬ day was extremely violent It lasted for a lirst period of six followed by a period of live hours Fifteen hundred shells were dropped in all parts of the town What remains of the cathedral was made a special target and suffered seriously The interior of the valnted roof which had resisted until now was burst About twenty houses were tired and twenty civilians were killed To the east of the Argoune between Melincourt and the Mciise our battery found a German battery and blew up Its ammunition wagons Along the remaining part of our front there nothing to report reportThe The ollicial German statement says An advance attempted by the Russians with forces quickly gathered from Grodno moving in a northwesterly direction reMiIted in a failure The number of cannon taken in the pursuit of the Russians after the battle of the Maznrian lakes has been Increased ti over 00 and includes ten pieces of heavy cali ¬ ber Northwest of Ossowetz north of Lomza and in the vicinity of 1rzasnyz the lighting continues On the Vistula east of Ilock we have advanced farther into the Wyszogrod district In Poland south of tli Vistula an advance by a Russian division on our positions on the Rawka river lias been repulsed repulsedA A Garman Zeppelin dropped ten bombs on Calais early Monday morning Five persons were killed and a number of houses wrecked by two of the missiles while the remainder fell without doing any harm Leaving there the vessel sailed inland and endeavored to wreck the St Outer Ilazebrouck ami Dunkirk railroad The effort so far as material damage was concerned failed but fear of the hug airship was indicated when service along the line was suspended Trains resumed their schedule only when the Zeppelin disappeared in the direction of Dunkirk DunkirkA A dispatch from the battle front In Poland via Perlin and London says The German forces under Field Marshal von Ilindenlmrg by hard lighting and extraordinary marches inflicted such a strik ¬ ing defeat on the Russians opposed to them in the recent battle of the Mazurlan lakes country that the Russian remnants are a negligible quantity in the operations now in progress The Russian killed and wounded in the four days lighting are esti ¬ mated at 30000 Over 50010 Russians of a total of 150000 engaged are prisoners In German hands handsLondon London Iienrs that Constantinople is in imminent danger of attack by land and sea Athens dis ¬ patches say the Turks expecting the allied fleet to force the Iiardenelles haw sent troops and heavy artillery to all the islands in the Red sea Copen ¬ hagen reports that an ollicial disiiatch from Sofia via Berlin says the Russians are concentrating a huge army at Odessa which will be shipped to Midla cm the Ilack sea sixty miles northwest of Constantinople for an overland march on the Turk capital capitalThe The American steamer Carib lias gone to the bottom off tin German coast in the North sn as a result of running on mine At the time of the disaster to the Carib the vessel was not using the route laid down in the German marine instructions The steamer Carib belonged to the Clyde line She was of 22SO ions net and left Charleston January 27 for Ircnicn She was In command of Captain Cole ColeA A dispatch from Geneva says that Germans up to the age of fortyeight eligible for service with the landsturm troops have luvii recalled from Switzer ¬ land and it is reported there that those living in othir neutral countries have been directed to join the colors not later than March 3 Austria like ¬ wise lias summoned from neutral countries men of the landsturm up to the age of fortylive years The order affects 2000 living in Switzerland SwitzerlandComplaints Complaints at the governments delay in enforcing the blockade or whatever reprisals have been de ¬ cided UIHIII against Germany are voiced in the Lon ¬ don morning papers The Mail says the Britirfi nation is laboring under the delusion that Germany is being subjected to a strict blockade while the reverse Is the fact Food and raw materials the paper says still are being imported into Germany GermanyThe The Amsterdam Nicuwe Cournut points out that Sir Edward Greys contention in the British reply to the American note that the use of a neutral flag is not forbidden bv other countries is not cor ¬ rect as according to the Dutch code foreign skip ¬ pers sailing under the Dutch Hag are liable to im ¬ prisonment for one year and a line up to 120 120According According to the London Chronicles Geneva cor ¬ respondent German and Austrian troops have been concentrating for several days along the Swiss and Italian frontier touching Tyrol and even as far as the Adriatic They are chletly engineers and artil lervnipn who have placed guns in the best positions to be found some of them on Alpine passes passesA A reiMirt on the lighting in the Caucasus received at Petrograd from the headquarters of the Rus ¬ sian commander of that region says that February 21 there wen engagements with the Turks in the vicinity of Tohoruk as a result of which the Turks were driven beyond tlw river There was no light ing elsewhere on that date dateA A supply of food at moderate prices for the population of Germany is assured Clemens Delbruck imperial minister of the interior declared in a speech to the Prussian diet The diet unanimously accepted a bill appropriating 23000000 as a sub ¬ sidy to be used in alleviating the sufferings of per ¬ sons affected by the war warThe The Lloyds underwriters have advanced war risk premiums on transatlantic passages nearly onehalf rritisli coastal risks also have been Increased Llovds rate for transatlantic passages is now from 1 14 to 1 12 per cent The government however continues to write business at its old rate of 103 per cent centAn An official announcement given out by the Brit ¬ ish bureau of information says that a mutiny at Singapore in tlso Fifth Light Infantry over promo ¬ tions lias been quelled Theloss of life in the pro ¬ ceedings was somewhat serious seriousPrigOeii PrigOeii John E Gougli who took a prominent part in the Pritish retreat from Mons and who since then has several times been mentioned in ollicial dispatches has died of wounds received last Satur ¬ day dayThe The allied governments have not decided upon the precise attitude which it is proposed to adopt in re ¬ taliation against Germanys recently initiated bel ¬ ligerent policy but a speedy agreement is expected expectedThe The official report from the French ministry of war describes gains made by the allies at many points along the western battle front
