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mmmmmiimmmsmmmmwmm GERMANS DENY DAMAGE BY BRITISH AEROS PLAN NEW DASH FOR WARSAW Berlin, via Wicejess to Sayville, L. I. Official report ofwar office today definitely denies that German mili tary positions suffered as a result of yesterday's aerial raids by the larg est squadron of airmen Britain has yet sent into action. Amsterdam. Berlin advices re ceived here declare that kaiser, now on eastern battle front, has appealed to Field Marshal Von Hindenburg to order a desperate dash for Warsaw next week and to sacrifice everything to capture Polish capital Paris. The Germans (today made an attempt to demolish the military depots at Verdun from the air. A squadron of ten aeroplanes flew across the fortress 4 and dropped bombs, but, according to the latest word received here, did practically no damage. The fighting in the north from La Bassee to the sea is-Increasing in in tensity. The 'Germans violently at tacked the Belgian-French positions at Nieuport, but were repulsed with heavy losses. Paris. The cabinet is considering the recall of all members of the as sembly serving at the front. There are a large number of them and it is declared by high officials that the legislative problems are so cpmplex that these men can serve France bet ter in their seats in the chambers than on the firing line. Washington. The government was advised this afternoon that an unfavorable outcome of the Wilhelm ina foodstuff case, now up to a Brit ish, prize court, will bring German re taliation against England, in which the United States may suffer com mercially. .London. Althought the Admiralty is withholding further details of the British aerial raid on the German air and naval bases in Belgium, jubila the f eeling that its success will great ly interfere with the proposed Ger man submarine blockade scheduled to begin Thursday. It is considered certain that some at least of the submarine bases inside of the harbor and at the canal mouth at Zeebrugge and in the vicinity of Ostend have been destroyed. Yesterday's raid was aimittedly j the first of a number now planned. fans. severe ngnxing continues in Argonne region, where Germans have again been reinforced. Along line between Fontaine Madame and Marie Therese, Germans are today continuing their violent assaults in an endeavor to gain a foothold in French trenches, some of which they have demolished with dynamite. Theyare being repulsed, however, by , French artillery and rapid-firers. German losses in this operation are very heavy. Tbere has been a renewal of the bombardment of German positions along heights of the Meuse, and es pecially in St. Mihiel section, where French have made slight gains in heavily-wooded territory ta the west of the German positions. In the Vosges slow but certam gains are be ing made under most desperate con ditions. German activity at La Bas see has been checked for the time being, but because of the enormous number of troops that are massed here it is believed that the enemy has merely halted operations while addi tional artillery is being brought up. The bombardment of Soissons con tinues at long range, but the Ger mans have seeminglyiabandoned for the present at least all thoughts of attempting to force the passage of. the Aisne. In the north, from Arras to the sea, the artillery duels con tinue and nearly every building along the line of conflict has been flattened to the ground by the intensity of the K tion was exjred11todaecaiuay fehellfire. -s . i-nhae iol ABHiijaHagagtHMatfigittatgiMtl