The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1914-12-10
DEcE MBER q.

new war credit OF $l,25U, OOO,OO ana
the imperial chanehellor, DIR. Won Beth
mann Hollweg. before the German house
of representatives, has declared that
the future can be regarded with every
confidence. At the same time the
chancellor asserted that the apparent
responsibility for this greatest of all
wars lies wiY Russia, while the real
responsibilit~fall on the British gov
ernment~ Regarding the progress of
the war the French official statement
reports a violent bombardment of Lam
pernisse, to the west of Dixmude, an
action to the northwest of the forest
OF La Grurie and in Alsace the cap
ture of the towns of Aspachle- Bias by
the French troops. In the east, ac-
cording to the announcement from
Russian general headquarters, relative
calm prevailed on all fronts, but about
midnight the Germans made a deter
mined attack on the Russian positions
north of LODI and met with repulse.
Belgrade has been occupied by the
Austrians after its evacuation by the
Servian troops and Indications are that
the Servian army is being hard press
ed. Italy awaits with some anxiety the
reopening of the italian parliment, at
the governments attitude in the war
and the reasons which have actuated
the policy of maintaining armed and
watchful neutrality" General Christian
De Wet, the famous Boer leader in
the South African war. who turned
rebel shortly after the commencement
of the present conflict, has been cap
tured by the Union of South African
fOr0aa ooanrdfru m or offirfa1 dfcnafnh
from Pretoria. The possibilities of a
German invasion of England has been
revived by the warning issued by the
earl of Warwick, lord lieutenant of
Essex. who abjures the people in such
events not to take part in the fighting
as civilians, as such action would on
ly result in reprisals and possibly in
a repetition of the horrors that have
taken place In Belgium" Emperor
Francis Joseph of Austria is again re-
ported by a London newspaper as be-
ing in very feeble health.
DECEMBER s.
With hundreds of thousands Of fight
ing men along the battlefronts In the
eastern and western areas of Europe
the official statements vouchsafed little
information regarding actual operations.
Apparently only on the French right
wing In France have the troops of the
opposing nations shown any particular
activity during the last "a hours. The
French report the occupation of Les
menils and one of the signal stations
at Xon, on the right bank of the Mo-
selle. Likewise In the Vosges the
French have taken an observation
point previously occupied by the Ger
mans In Poland. upon which all eyes
are fixed. the Germans, having extri-
Gated themselves from difficult and
position, are now directing
their efforts against the Russian army
which failed few days ago to encom-
pass the invaders. The Petrograd view
OF the situation Is that the Warsaw
of the Germans appears to
have resolved itself into q pers' tent
and logged grinding against the Rus
sian center with the aid of the recent
iy arrived heavy reenforcements. Nine
teen thousand Servian prisoners are
said to have been taken by the Aus
TRANS since they began the present Of
fensive movement, and Servia's casu-
a'ties since the beginning of the war
are estimated at 100000.
DECEMBER q.
At no time since the war began has
the veil of secrecy been so closely
drawn over the operations of the armies
in all the theaters of the conflict.
Although 1t is known that fighting of
a vicious character stlll Is being car
ried on in the eastern zone and that
there have been isolated combats here
and there along the entrenched lines
in Belgium and France nothing Is at
hand to show how the fortunes of war
are being distributed "At no place
along the entire front has there been
any notable incident" says the Paris
official communication in referring
to the situation in the west. OF the
trend Of events in the east Vienna de-
clares the fighting In north Poland con-
tinues, but that In all other zones quiet
prevails. Unofficial adviees say the
Russians have been victorious in Po-
land and that the Germans have lost
large numbers of men. One report
has it that in the fighting between the
Vistula and the Warta the Germans
lost two-thirds of their army. The
Swiss federal council, in an official
communication. says there has been
renewed activity by the French and
1erihah Iorces IN upper AlSace.
DECEMBER u
Germans and Russians are en- Jagged
In mighty battle to the south of
LODI in Russian Poland and along
line from Glowno. northeast of LODI,
to the vistula river The front ex-
tends for 40 or SO miles and probably
close to half million men are taking
part In the desperate encounters which
at some places are at the point OF the
bayonet The Siberian troops are show
ing tireless aggression, charging bat
teries and moving swiftly up to hand
to-hand fighting. Villages have been
burned and the countryside is report
ed to be strewn with the bodies OF the
dead and wounded. On both sides the
losses have been great. The new line
which the Germans are forming, after
their attempt against the Russian CEN
ter, stretches from Kutno on the north
to Cracow on the south. Here another
series of operations is impending In
the western arena there is compare
tive quiet. although the French re-