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EUROPEAN WAR DEVELOPMENTS The French battleship Bouvet bombarding the Dardanelles forts has been sunk by the guns of the Turkish tiiTurkish forts the Turkish war olliee announced in an itan ollicial statement The text of the announcement follows pjifollows An allied enemy fleet heavily shelled the forts wlforts of the Dardanelles which replied effectively sinking the French battleship Bouvet Our lleet early today bombarded the shipyards and maneuver ing jiing place of toriKMlo boats west of Theodosla on the ththe Black a in Crimea a port of Russia and set olset the buildings on fire Accurate lire of the Turkish rvTurkish forts on the Dardanelles has caused a ccssa tioii jptioii of the bombardment by the AngloFrench licet according to dispatches from Athens The report from tilfrom Constantinople that the French battleship Bouvet rtBouvet has been sunk was scouted in British admir ally circles but no statement was issued An ar tillery mtillery duel in the Dardanelles between Turkish shore batteries pibatteries and warships protecting allied mine sweep ers lasted from midnight until 2 ti m Thursday says an Athens dispatch based on information from Tcncdos The warships are reported to have been beenstruck struck by several shells with slight damage The Britisli steamship Glenartney a I 500 ton craft owned by the Caledonia Steamship company and loaded with SOOO tons of rice was torpedoed T Peachy Head Thursday The submarine gave ie Gleuarlney no warning but the crew had time o launch the boats One man was drowned iiow ever by the capsizing of one boat The others lirtyninc in number were landed safely at New NewHaven Haven The British steamer Hyndford was tor icdoed yesterday in the English channel by sr Ger nan submarine It is reported that one member of he crew was killed The steamer was torpedoed in the favorite hunting grounds of the German sub submarines marines off Beachey Head as it was on Its way to London The British steamer Bluejacket with wheat from Liverpool was also torpedoed by a icrman submarine off Beachey Head The crew crewtook took to the boats The steamer although badly damaged remained afloat Problems confronting American shipping raised ly ply successive war measures taken by the fighting European nations were before President Wilson Wilsonand and his cabinet yesterday The conference Was ex iccted to arrive at a delinatu line of action in Imping a protest against the latest war measure the British order in council announcing reprisals against German commerce It is understood the Jnited States holds that if the action of the allies alliess s a blockade it must be made effective Ixforo commerce to and from Germany can be stopped It will maintain further that American commerce with European neutrals must not be interfered with If Ifhe he allies do not contend that the order in council s a blockade the United States is not expected to acknowledge the right of the allies to detain lion contraband even when consigned to German ports portsBerlin Berlin sends out the report that a squadron of six tritish and four French battle ships attacked three fortresses of the Dardanelles on Thursday kt the same time another squadron of the allied eets began operations against three fortresses in Saros bay After a fierce artillery duel the hostile ships withdrew at two oclock in the afternoon but part of the squadron continued its fire until live clock at long range and at great intervals The reiich battleship Rouvet struck a mine at 2 in the vicinity of the entrance to the straits and sank in three minutes A British torpedo boat was sunk by the fire from the forts The British battle ship Irresistible was put out of action while an other battle ship was seriously damage Messages received in London indicate the Germans are concentrating their forces to check the advance of the allies in northern France and In Belgium and t is expected the war will grow more fiirious there carrying out the predictions that the real lighting will begin in the spring The next Important battle on the western front it Is believed will take iilace along the river Yser held on one side by the eoganized Belgian army and on the other by the Germans As the Hoods have subsided the Belgians supported by the warships of the allies have pushed their line slightly forward and this is almost cer tain to lead to counter attacks by the Germans and a general engagement The German general stair gave out a report on the progress of the war as follows In the Champagne district further French attacks have failed one of these north of Le Mesnil the other north of Beause jour We took prisoner two French officers and seventy soldiers After heavy losses the French re ¬ treated under our effective lire to their former posi ¬ tions Southeast of Verdun the French have made several advances In the plain of the Wucvre French attacks have been repulsed while on the east side of the heights of the Mouse the fighting continues continuesVictory Victory for the allies in desperate fighting in the Lorette hills cum try northwest of Arras and im ¬ portant French gains in the Argonne were reported in dispatches received at Paris from the front yes ¬ terday A FrancoBritish forward movement in the Lorette region gave the allies command of a German line of communication descending toward the village of Ablain a few miles north of St Eloi A body of German troops that remained to defend the road was either annihilated or captured capturedA A British correspondent describing conditions In the Dardanelles says the Turks now have howitzers mounted on rails and can concentrate them on men ¬ aced points He adds that all the Dardanelles ar ¬ tillery Is being worked entirely by Germans The loss of a French submarine bxit in an attempt to run through the Dardanelles is described by Rear Admiral Guepratte of the French Dardanelles fleet in an Interview with the London Daily Telegraphs Tcnedos correspondent correspondentThe The American embassy at London lias been advised that the American steamer Maracas from New York February 22 for Rotterdam and Copenhagen with a cargo of packing lnue products has been ordered before a British prize court at Hull This steamer has been detained at Kirkwall since March 11 It is expected that the United States soon will appoint a consular agent at Kirkwall because of the large number of ships being detained there Several steamers arriving in English ports report having been chased by German submarines The Glenciinnv from Calcutta reports having escaped from one of these craft which the officers of this steamer say succeeded hi sinking another steamer that they could not identify off Beachy Head The steamer Colchester which plies between Rotterdam and Harwich was pursued for the second time in two days by the U2S lint escaped escapedThe The Austrian government Is resisting energetically pressure exerted by Germany to induce her to make territorial concessions to Italy according to a Geneva dispatch to the Petit Pnrisien Count An drassy former premier of Hungary and several other statesmen representing the dual monarchy are reported to have gone to Berlin to discuss tho problem with Chancellor von BethmauIIolIweg and Foreign Minister von Jagow JagowAn An arrangement between Great Britain and Ger ¬ many and Austria by which representatives of tl United States will inspect and report UIMUI alien prison camps in those countries and distribute lo prisoners supplies from their own government or other sources is announced by the slate department at Washington Similar arrangements are under contemplation belwron Russia and France and Ger ¬ many and AustriaHungary AustriaHungaryThe The British auxiliary steamer Orama which steamed into Valparaiso on Tuesday with the wounded from the German cruiser Dresden sunk at Juan Fernandez that Sunday brought the first news of a battle oft the River Plate on November 11 in which the German armed merchantman Na varra was sent to the bottom bottomThe The first ship to be arrested under the new order in council on the reprisal policy is the Swedish steam ¬ ship Geheland laden with provisions understood to be destined for Germany The vessel has been taken to IXTS It is understood that it was seized off the Shetland islands The cargo probably will Ie unshivrtd and sold soldBritains Britains losses in battle at Neuve Chapelle and St Eloi are said to 1 much greater than reported Ixird Claude Hamilton told a meeting in London that of 1100 men in his regiment the Grenadier Guards only Xi escaped unscathed He attacked the authorities for concealing casualties casualtiesA A dispatch frv m Rome says that Italy is pre ¬ paring to renounce the triple alliance treaty linking her with Austria and Germany according to reports from various sources The majority of the Rome newspapers yesterday warned the public that a crisis in the AnstroItallan relations is near nearThe The allied fleet literally blocks out the horizon between the Island of Tenedos and the mainland says the London Daily Mails correspondent The i task of the mine sweepers tho correspondent adds which are eleven miles up the Dardanelles is being madedlnictilt by new floating mines minesRussian Russian claims of another successful invasion o east Prussiii were emphatically denied at the Ger ¬ man war office It issued a statement showing that the entire German frnt In the eastern war theater is on Russian territory territoryReports Reports of the fall of the outer Przemysl furls are contradicted by a Vienna dispatch which says that Russian attacks are iuad only at rare intervals and that the Austrian defenders have little to do doA A dispatch from Odessa says tho British steamer Wolvorton has been wrecked by a mine off Sou Ilijina A Greek soldier is staled to have been killed and four were injured injuredThe The campaign in the east has assumed a new aspect with the penetration of Die northernmost poiiir of cast Pni ia by Jliissiau forces
