FRENCH ADVANCE PROGRESSING.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144710, 19 June 1915, Page 3

FRENCH ADVANCE PROGRESSING.

ANOTHER SUBMARINE VISITS CONSTANTINOPLE.

RUSSIANS SECURE MANY PRISONERS.

KAISER DISTRESSED FOR KARLSRUHE VICTIMS.

The .French record' of progress at many points in their line isvvery satisfactory. The British are attaching at Hooge, due oast ofYpres, and have met with some success. The conditions at present are such that the side that can mass guns opposite a position can practically wipe out the trenches of the enemy and gain seme ground. The state of affairs in Galicia is still somewhat mysterious. If the Russians are really capturing all the prisoners officially claimed and causing casualties to the Austro-Gennan forces on one portion of their front at the rate of Between 120,000 and 150,000 per month their retveat_ i s really a victory, whatever {heir own losses, for they can well afford to lose twice as many men as. the enemy'and still win in the end. Wo are now told that the German advance was delayed at Mosciska and that a Big Battle yPI he fought around Grodek, a place about half way Between Erzemysl and Lemberg. The Austro-Gennan forces arc now far from their Base, and there seems good reason to hope that the Russian concentration has now Been completed and that the advance will soon Begin. One may even hope that the word may Be passed all along Both fronts and that the great offensive, which .will test the German supplies of men and munitions, is on the eve of Beginning. In this case the Germans will have a front of a thousand miles to maintain, and even their wonderful organisation must Break down. Mr. Bryan's discovery that war is a great' nuisance to neutrals is not of a very novel chaarctcr. His absolute failure to grasp the great stakes at issue in the conflict is evidence of the essential smallness of the man. The Kaiser's distress over the raid on Karlsruhe comes well from a monarch who has not hesitated to devastate Belgium aud Boland and Bring sorrow to thousands of homes in every land to satisfy his lust for power. Submarine activity near Constantinople is causing groat alarm there, and must interfere with Turkish reinforcements for the Gallipoli Peninsula. Germany has generously offered Bulgarians strip of Turkish territory in order to keep Bulgaria neutral. Bulgaria’s conduct during the late Balkan war was not such as to inspire any confidence that even a promise of -neutrality will prevent her from pursuing her own interests