The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-04
TsutoniC Forces Are Battling To Escape
Russian Death Trap Set For
Them
KAISER GOES TO POLAND
Comparative Quiet On Western From
tier-Sr John French Says The
Germans Show Weakening

Germany is fighting hard, despite
heavy losses sustained on the Russian
frontier, where, according to Petro-
grad advices, they walked right into a
death trap laid for them by the czar's
forces.
The situation has been considered
SO grave by the Berlin war office that
the kaiser himself has fastened to
join his troops on the Polish Dor
der.
On the western front there has
been comparative quiet for several
days, though in letter from Sir John
French, the English field marshal in
charge of the British forces on the
continent, the Teutons are beginning
to weaken. Another German attack
on the allied lines in an effort to
push through to the seacoast, has
been repulsed. President Poincare has
Joined the French forces at Verdun.
Turkish troops are persistent in
their attacks on the Suez canal, though
their forces in Caucasus are said to
have been decisively defeated by the
Russians. The Sultan has issued a
general call to arms throughout the
entire Ottoman empire proclaiming
the crisis holy war.
The Russians are claiming many
victories over both the Germans and
Austrians and declare that when the
veil is lifted from the scene Of the
present campaign, the world will hear
the details of the most telling blow to
Germany's finest troops that has been
inflicted since Napoleon's day.
Austrian officials in Vienna admit
that the Slav troops now occupy Ger
nowitz, capital of the province of Bulk
owina A big naval battle is now 60
ing on in the Baltic between the Teu-
tonic and Slav cruisers, the details of
which are promised later.
Severe fighting is reported going on
in northwestern Servia and the Mon.
tenegrins are claiming decisive victo-
ries over the Austrians.
The Roumanian parliament has con-
vened at Bucharest and will possibly
make some territorial concessions to
Bulgaria regarding the boundary dis
pute which arose after the second Bal
kan war last year.
Such action, it is believed by the
allies, will bring Bulgaria into line
against the Austro-German entente
and provide a relief to the Servians
and further annoyance to Turkey.
The United States government has
taken under consideration the appeal
of the South American republics to ex.
clude battleships of the warning ma
tons from Pan-American waters. Sec.
rotary of State Bryan has told the
Latin American diplomats that he will
take up the matter with President
Wilson.
The president called an important
conference of ambassadors of the bel
hgerent European nations at the white
house where he addressed them ex-
pressing his strong disapproval of the
methods of aerial bomb throwing on
unfortified cities in which might be
living residents of neutral countries.
The campaign on the Franco-Belgian
frontier, commonly regarded as the
main battlefield of the war, has as.
sumed a new phase. Everything is
quiet and only the slightest skirmish.
es are being reported. Germany has
seemingly relinquished the offensive.
The kaiser has made a flying trip to
Kiel.
Decisive victories for the Russian
army over the German forces in the
latter's attacks on the Polish Dor
der and attempts to reach Warsaw,
together with the explosion of the
British warship, Bulwark, off the Eng.
lish coast, mark the leading de-
velopments of the week in the Euro
pean war.
Repulsed at every turn, the Ger
mans were forced to abandon their
project to capture the Polish capital,
and in turn were compelled to hastily
retreat in order to guard the roads to
Danzig and Berlin, which are again
imperiled.