New Britain herald., 1915-09-18
GERMANY WILL SEND
 ARMY TO TURKEY
Teutons Plan Aid for Dardanelles French COuntermine
BRITISH STEAMER SUNK

Declaration of Annexation of Occu-
 pied Territory to Be Made Shortly
 Lively Cannonading in France 5 Austria Attempts Serbian Invasion. s4essA great German army is to be sent to Turkey, according to statement attributed to Enver Pasha, the Turk ish war minister, in a despatch from Constantinople by way of Berlin.
 The German government intends shortly to issue a declaration annex ing to the German Empire the ter ritory in France and Belgium occu- pied by German troops, it is declared in press advices received in Switzer- land.
 A German submarine has tor pedoed and sunk the British tank steamer San Zeferino of 6,430 tons. Of her crew of forty-two, three men are missing.
 Lively cannonading continues on a < long stretch of the Franco-Belgian front. No infantry activity is men, toned in the current French state ment.
 Tn the Dardanelles the French re- cord success in the destruction yes < terday of a Turkish mine gallery | which had been pushed forward for s several days toward the French front. { Counter mining operations frustrated the Turks.
 Attacks by the Turks on the Irak front of the entente allies on the Gal lipoli Peninsula resulted in the killing
 :ls force, the Turkish war office de- clares. r'l
 ai.s Austrian attempts to invade Serbia have been resumed, according to the war office at Nish, which reports that three efforts of the Austrians to cross the river Save during the night of Sep tenber 4 were frustrated by the Ser bian infantry.
 The Russians continued to be pressed back along the northern. end of their line. Wilma, apparently, is z on the point of falling, while Dvinsk Fiss seriously threatened. In the south the Russians are continuing their suc- cesses.4 The captures of prisoners re- { ported in the current statement, from Petrograd total more than $500. The executive committee of the Arnalgamated Union of Railway Ser
 
 statement made in the house of com mons on Thursday by H. J. Thomas that if conscription were adopted in Great Britain the railway employees would stop work and an industrial revolution would be precipitated. Wilma Invested.
 London, Sept. IS, 11:56 a. m.-The ! city of Wilma is now virtually invested on three sides. The troops of Field . Marshal Von Mackensen have reached a point near Vileika, thirty-seven miles southeast of the city. The fall of Wilma would place in possession of the Germans considerable section of the railroad to Petrograd, a DOT tion of which, between Dvinsk and |, Wilma, they already hold.
 On the southern end of the battle line the Russians continue to gain successes, their latest achievements being the capture of 1900 men along the Stripa. Little activity is reported from the center of the line. where a readjustment is expected following Field Marshal Won Mackensen's cap ture of Pinsk.
 s New Offensive Campaign.
 
 Germans have decided to initiate a new offensive campaign are multiply ing, but there is little concrete evil . dence concerning the direction which < it may be expected to take. Cabling from Rotterdam, several correspond ents assert they have reason to believe the central powers have not only de- ], cided to strike heavy blow but all ready have put under way the pre- liminary military movements. , The objective of the new campaign is generally believed to be either Italy or Serbia. Apparently there has not been any great concentration of ] troops along the Danube and Save { rivers. Considerable activity has been displayed along this front recently. Austrian attempts to cross the rivers have been checked and, according to official reports from Nish, Serbian ar tillery has destroyed fortified works on the banks of the rivers.
 Balkan Problem Critical. It is felt here that the Balkan problem has reached critical stage. Ghe Turco-Bu1garian agreement, coupled with the announcement of Premier Radoslavoff of Bulgaria that public opinion was opposed to any at tack on Turkey, seems to have settled the attitude of the Bulgarians, at least as long as the Dardanelles re- ' main closed to the entente powers There probably will be no further developments in the controversy over conscription until parliament meets again next week.
 French Destroy Trench
 Paris, Sept. Is, 2:40 D. m-The destruction of Turkish position on Ba <No 11inCH Poninc I,xy a Trr,>.. .I,