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EUROPEAN WAR DEVELOPMENTS The British admiralty has admitted that seven merchant vessels heretofore not announced had been torpedod by German submarines since Thurs ¬ day Two tif these it is stated were sunk and of tvo others it is said that the sinking is not con lirmed Three were damaged but not sunk The statement issued by the admiralty accounts for the following named vessels Steamer Ilartdale sunk by submarine in Irisli channel Saturday three of crew drowned twentynine others saved The In ¬ dian City a small steamer sunk off the Scilly is ¬ lands Friday the crew was picked up by nearby steamers The steamer Adeiiwan 79S tons of Cardiff torpedoed in the channel on Thursday it readied Cherbourg with its crew The steamer Florizan 4i 8 tons of Liverpool torpedoed or mined Thursday at the mouth of Bristol channel crew safe The steamer Headlands 29SS tons of Liverpool torpedced Friday off the Scilly islands crew safe The steamer Andalusian torpedoed off tlie Scilly islands on Friday crew safe The steamer Inversyle 1794 tons of Glasgow torpedoed off Cresswell Saturday crew safe safeParis Paris reports that French and British battleships are continuing their bombardment of the Darda ¬ nelles forts Seventy small mine sweepers are con ¬ tinuing their efforts t tr r clear the mine lields and are under a continuous rain of iron from the Turkish short batteries Some of the sweepers have been damaged According to the latest dispatches from the Dardanelles the allied licet has not penetrated the straits as far as previously had been reported Iniitlicial dispatches had the licet many miles up the straits but an oliicial communication from the French ministry of marine shows the reports to be untrue Previous Information has been to tlie effect that Chanak Kalessl and other forts at the narrow ¬ est parts of the straits had been bombarded success ¬ fully that about a third of the passage had been cleared of mines and that some of the more im ¬ portant batteries at the entrance of the straits had been silenced The marine report says the allies still itrolKimliarding the light batteries which com ¬ mand the Bay of Morto at the entrance to the Dar ¬ danelles danellesThat That Italy Is not hssoning its active preparations for Uar in spite of negotiations now under way with Germany is indicated by the fact that the Italian war ollice has just concluded an arrange ¬ ment to become effective in the event of war for hospital accommodations for 120CO wounded in Rome alone Kven t lie Gorman and French colleges will be converted into hospitals under this plan If Italy enters tin war Reports that negotiations are in progress belwein the AnstroIlnngarian gov ¬ ernment and tjie Vatican looking toward tln co oneralioii of the holy Pee In urging the continuance of Italian neutrality are denied flatly by the Ohser vatore 15 nUiAHV I Je lfeuedlct vvas SiiiU UH re ¬ liable authority ardently hopes that Italv will not enter the war but at tlw same time ho is de ¬ termined not to influence in any way the decisions of the government which is tlie exclusive custodian of the countrys welfare welfareBerlin Berlin says that Field Marshal von Hiiulenhurg has outwitted the Russians again His right wing lias forced tlie Russians who swept westward toward Augiistowo more than twenty miles The Russians have lost at least 20000 killed wounded and pris ¬ oners Without regard for the strength of the Germans massed about Augiistowo the Russians rushed westward with the object of piercing the German line When the trap was ready Von Hindeii bnrg sprung it Part of a Russian division was au nlliilateil the remainder of the Russian forces cut their way out after desperate lighting abandoning dead wounded and war munitions Only tlio most meaner bits of news came from the war ollice re ¬ garding operations around Przasnysz The Oliicial statement described the German offensive movement as progressing progressingDispatches Dispatches received at London from Petrograd and Berlin indicate that the Germans are driving their forces against the Russian line in the two direc ¬ tions towards Xovo Gcogievsk and the Vistula river One German column with its center north of Przas nysz is sweeping in a wide curve to tlie south and west and the other with Ossowietx on its right is moving down the Xarew There is no doubt that the Germans by throwing new army corps over tin cast Prussian frontier have made the Russians give ground in the Przasnysz district They are now only a few miles from the town and are establish ¬ ing their heavy field gun position preparatory to another bombardment bombardmentPetrograd Petrograd reports that the advance guard of the German army massing north of Przasnysz for a new movement on Warsaw has approached within less than a mile of the Russian positions 1ast of Suwalki in north Poland the Germans continue their efforts to advance but have Iteen repeatedly checked the war olMecf states To the north near Simme a German detachment was defeated by Rus ¬ sian cavalry Russian artillery inflicted heavy looses upon the Germans near Kopciovb Tlie l om bardinent of the fortress of Ossowetz has been re ¬ newed bv the Germans The Russian artillery is replying effectively to the German siege guiis
