The Independent . illegal measures of her ene- THE GREAT WAR January 29—Cold weather stops thefighting in Rumania. British gain300 yards on Tigris. January 30—Russians take 2000prisoners on border of Adam Tarnowski von Tar-now, new Austro-Hungarian Am-bassador, reaches America. January 31—Germany announces thathospital ships will be debarred fromBritish Channel. Plot to poisonLloyd George disclosed. February 1—Germany declares a largeblockaded area surrounding BritishIsles and covering most of Mediter-ranean in which all ships will besunk. February 2—British penetrate Ger-man tr
The Independent . illegal measures of her ene- THE GREAT WAR January 29—Cold weather stops thefighting in Rumania. British gain300 yards on Tigris. January 30—Russians take 2000prisoners on border of Adam Tarnowski von Tar-now, new Austro-Hungarian Am-bassador, reaches America. January 31—Germany announces thathospital ships will be debarred fromBritish Channel. Plot to poisonLloyd George disclosed. February 1—Germany declares a largeblockaded area surrounding BritishIsles and covering most of Mediter-ranean in which all ships will besunk. February 2—British penetrate Ger-man trenches near ships sunk by Germans. February 3—President announces toCongress that he has broken offdiplomatic relations with cruisers in American portsseized and crews imprisoned. Ameri-can ship Housatonic sunk. February ./—National guard calledout. The seventy-two Americanstaken from British steamers byGerman raider are released. February 12, 1917 THE INDEPENDENT 25:;. THE NEW BRITISH WAR ZONELast week the British Admiralty notified theUnited States that on account of belligerentoperations the area in the North Sea outlinedabove, except for a strip from four to sevenTniles wide along the Dutch and Danish coasts,would be dangerous to shipping. The squarearea at the entrance to the English Channelis that previously announced as mined mies by forcibly preventing all navi-gation, even that of neutrals, withinthe specified zone. He adds: All ships met within that zone will besunk. The Imperial Government is confi-dent that this measure will result in aspeedy termination of the war and in therestoration of peace, which the Governmentof the United States has so much at heart. The Russian Russ!a uhas ua^ain been„ saved by her ancient tTOnt ally, General Janu- ary. In the Carpathian and Balkanmountains the weather is colder thanit has been in years, and the defiles arefilled with snow. It is hard to handlethe artillery under such condition
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