The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1914-11-13
BATTLE IN SAND DUNES GOES ON
-MUSCoviTES ASSERT FORCES
HAVE EASTERN SITUATION
IN HAND.
FRENCH AND BRITISH HAVE
DECLARED VAR ON TURKEY
M%uscovites Say kaiser's Men Have
Fallen Back Across Frontier Into
Their Own Domain-Berlin Re-
ports Plan to Crush Army Of
Gar With 100000 Men.
ny GEORGE A.. DORSEY.
International NAxxa Sarx-aO1

ny GEORGE A. DORSEY.
by international News Service.
Pekin, Nov. 10.-Enticing offers have
been made to Japan by agents of the
allies in China to induce the Mikado
to throw 200 900 Of his seasoned troops
into the Eureopena Theater of war.
Allies Exert Pressure.
Following the fall of Tsing-Tau,
which releases Japanese troops and
warships, and removes German men,
ace to Japan's prestige in the Orient,
the allies are ~exerting every effort to
bring Japan into the western conf 1ict.
A g~uarant e Of a freer hand in the
affairs of China is the price offered
for the Mikado's troops. The younger
statesmen are said to have welcomed
the proffer with enthusiasm, but the
more conservative are dubious.
Effect on Tsing-Tau.
The effect of such a move on the
status of Tsing-Tau is problematical.
Japan has insisted that her only inten.
ton is to restore the territory to
China, but this, it Is learned, will be
done only under a rigid agreement that
China shall cede no more territory to
any European power.
Failing this undertaking from
China, Japan will proclaim her title to
Tsing-Tau in perpetuity. Japan's an
nouncement following the fall OF
Tsing-Tau made no admission Of Brit
ish influence in the future OF the
province.
A Herculean Task.
To carry 2O0,O 600 troops to the Rus
sian battle front by way of the trans
Siberian railroad. Japan would have
to perform the Herculean task of
transporting them nearly 800 miles
across the Sea Of Japan to Vladivos-
took and then $500 miles over a single
track railroad. This movement will
have to be made in the dead of the
Siberian winter and would require at
least until the late spring to accomp-
lish.
To reach France the Japanese
would have to use the Panama canal.
to which she has a right for transport
ing soldiers or warships under the
treaty.
Claim Russians Advance.
London, Nov. 9.-The German and
Austrian armies are on the defensive
both in the East and West. They have
at least for the present given up their
efforts to break through the allied
lines around Ypres, in Belgium, where
the British and French have taken the
offensive and, according to the re-
ports from French headquarters have
commenced to advance, and in the
East they have fallen back to and
over their " frontiers in East Prus-
STA, and in Poland have crossed the
border, while the Russian cavalry has
penetrated Silesia, to the north of
Kalisz, and the German railway.
The Russians are following up their
advantage in Galicia and, it is said,
have succeeded in cutting the retreat
ing Austrians of from Cracow. and the
German army is retiring through Pc.
land. In fact. at only one point on
the two battle fronts do the Germans
claim success. That is to the west of
the Argonne region, where the German
emperor's forces have succeeded in
taking from the French an important
height near Vienqe-Le-Chateaux.
Elsewhere the French troops have
made progress and retaken the posi-
tions which they had lost during the
course of the week. This is notably
30 in the Aisne valley around Sois.
sons, where they have regained the
ground which the Germans. by fierce
assaults, had taken from them.
8eiqians Claim Progress.
The Belgians. who are holding the
line reaching to the coast, also have
made progress and it would thus seem
the Germans are waiting for additional
r~einforcements before renewing their
attempt to smash through to the
French seaports.
While the reports Of the allies Of
fensive In the West have given hope
In London that the Germans will fall
back to . line further removed from
the sea, all uneasiuess has not passed,
for they have shown wonderful re-
Operative powers. The presence Of
the Russians In East Prussia and ST.
lesia. however. although the latter are