Progress of the War.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15219, 5 March 1915, Page 6

Progress of the War.

Oii the East Prussian front the- Russian offensive continues, and on the Galician front they are prevailing over the Austrians and tho Germans. Tho operations described ' ac between the San and the Ondawa are those in the region of Mezo Lahorcz and the Lupkow Pass/ and the furious nature of the fighting shows that the enemy is making desperate efforts to deprive the Russians of the salient they have pushed into Hungarian territory. In France more progress in the Champagne region is reported. For some weoke now progress, ranging from slight to "marked," has been made on the line east ofßheims. and evidently the French are making a special effort there. The line of trenches bends southward between Rheims and the Argoiino, and the Fronch are naturally anxious to straighten it. At one point at least the German artillery is close to the railway line running from Rheime to Verdun, while behind the German entrenchments is another railway, which connects their army in the Champagne with tho forces near Verdun. The French, by pushing forward gradually at Perthes arid Beausejour, are drawing nearer to thig important link in the German system of communications. We have no further news of the operations in the British section of the front, btit there is another substantial casualty list. The bombardment of the Dardanelles was resumed on Monday, and continued on Tuesday, and at latest advices was proceeding. The fort* havo been' successfully bombarded with trifling loss to tho Allies, and a further stretch of the 6tra?t swept of mines. The Allies are now within eight or ten miles of the critical point of the operations, the bend in the strait where the channel is narrowest, ft is reported from Athens that the advance guard of an Allied army ha« arrived at tho Dardanelles, and that it consists of Canadians and Senegalese. It may be true_, but one cannot help doubting whether the censor would have passed such truth. The employment of Canadians and Senegalese in an advance party does not strike one a-s probable. If these troops are together they form one of the strangest combinations in a war full of surprises.