Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1914-11-19
Another Nati0ntOCet
Into War.
FIGHTING SLACKENS
IN NORTHERN FRANCE
No Indications, However, That
Germans Intend to Retire.

LOnuCn, NOV. 1I.-FaSt anu 1urlOuS
fighting both in the eastern and west.
ern arenas of the war is expected by
the present week memorable. Hints
from the front encourage them to ex-
pect that the week will see the Ger"
man tide through Flanders begin to
ebb. The cheerful note sounded by
the French official communication in
dicating that Ypres, Armentieres, Be-
thune, Arras and other inland gates
to the French seacoast remain SO far
impregnable is doubtless responsible
for the English optimism.
OF equal interest with news from
the active war theaters is the indica-
ton from Athens that Greece is to
cast its lot with the allies.
The correspondent of the Exchange
Telegraph company says it was an
nounced in the Grecian chamber of
deputies that Great Britain had ad-
vanced the Greek government 100000
900 drachmas ($8,000,OOOO to pay for
warships for Greece to be construct
ed in English shipyards.
What Will Mosiems DOT
OF greater importance to Great
Britain than any Of. the days passing
events was the question Of the atti-
tude in tie world. war to be taken by
the millions OF Mog1eihs In her colo
nial possessions. Reports. emanating
from Germany are that the Moslems
in some instances at least are siding
with the sultan Of Turkey, to whom
they owe spiritual allegiance, as
against Great Britain.
The vigor of the Teutonic offensive
in the west may have slackened, but
there is at present little indication of
resolve on the part of the German
staff to abandon plans which already
have cost the Germans so dearly.
The latest reports indicate the fight
ing along the User canal between
Nieuport and Dixmude was limited to
artillery exchanges. The French de-
clare the Germans have been driven
from all recently occupied positions
in this region and around Ypres and
that the line is about the same as it
was week ago, when the Germans
began furious assaults south of Dix.
nude and in the Ypres region.
Germans MassIng in East.
In the eastern theater of war the
Germans are massing in the face OF
the Russian advance. 1t is said that
great German forces are being con-
centrated at Thorn, Posen and Bres.
lau with the idea of keeping the Rus.
slams out of the important districts
of the provinces of Posen and Silesia.
A word Of caution comes to the al.
lies from Petrograd and it is signifi.
cant in the light of recent reports
from that point predicting a prompt
invasion Of Germany following the
German-Austrian retirement before
Warsaw. The allies are told they
must not expect the Russians to
sweep on to Berlin over night, as this
advance may take months and even
longer.
Russian arms seem gradually to be
moving toward Cracow and siege or
investment of this Austrian fortress
seems to be not far of. A Copenha-
gen dispatch says it is rumored there
that Cracow will not be defended, as
the Austrians fail to see why that city
should be bombarded and laid in ruins
for no reason. The dispatch states
the Russians would not be unwilling
ton of Cracow because the city is
largely Polish.