The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-02-27
Allied Forces, However, Feel
Well Prepared TO Meet
The New Rush.
GERMANY IS ON DEFENSIVE
With Przasnysz Now in Their
Possession, the Teutons Fight
on Toward Warsaw--Dacia
Changes Her Plans.

LONDON. Feb. 26.-The impress
sion is gaining ground among British
and French military critics that Ger
many is preparing for fresh eXpendi-
ture of energy in the land campaign in
the west Notwithstanding recent
German successes in the east, the re-
silincy and recuperating powers of the
Russian armies seem to have con-
vinced the German general staff that
il is wisest to adopt the defensive in
the Russian campaign while delivering
another blow IN the west.
If this rush comes, the allies will
be well prepared to meet it. During
the last few months IA decided change
for the better has taken place in the
forces OF the allies. what with rein
forcements, bigger guns and more
complete equipment, lack of which
was felt greatly during the early
stages of the war.
As against the explanation of new
another theory is avanced In some
quarters that the German attack In
the east will be continued with the
main idea of taking Warsaw from the
north Przanysz so miles north Of
Warsaw, now being in the hands OF
the Germans, according to their claim,
it is probable a battle is now raging
along the river OrZyc.
The Turks again are appearing in
the war news by virtue of the re-
newed fighting in the Caucasus.
Meantime the allied fleet has at last
demolished the forts at the entrance
to the Dardanelles in what is believed
to be a preliminary to a determined
attempt to force the historic strait.
That would have important strategic,
political and economic effects.
Wireless reports that the Ameri-
can steamship Dacia plans to go
northward around Scotland on the
way to Hamburg revive speculation
as to when and where she will be
seized by the British.
Three warships of the Anglo
French fleet which bombardcd the
Dardanelles are said by Turkish au-
thorities to have been damaged
The ConstantinopIe statements do
not refute specifically the British
claim that all Of the outer forts of
the Daraneles were reduced, but
conveys a contrary idea, asserting
that the fleet withdrew after bonn
bardment of seven and a half hours.
Capture of Przasnysz, Poland, by
the Germans has not been confirmed
from Petrograd The latest report
of the Russian general staff speaks OF
concentration of German efforts in
that direction.
Considerable successes for the Rus
SLAMS are claimed in action along the
Warsaw front and in Galicia The
correspondent of Cologne newspaper
reports that the Russians have suf-
fered another reverse in Bukowina,
and that their final opposition there
has been shattered, the province be-
ing cleared of the invaders.
Fighting between Austria and Mon
tenegro, almost at a standstill since
the mid-winter months, has been re-
sumed. dispatch from French
sources says an Austrian force which
attacked Montenegrin column in
the Austrian province of Bosnia was
repused after a violent fight
Germany is framing a reply to the
American note concerning food sup
plies for civilians in belligerent coun-
tries and mines and submarines.
Hope is growing in Berlin that the
American proposals may form basis
for negotiations solving all the diff
culties which have arisen.
A British admiralty statement says
that since February IS, when the
German naval war zone decree went
into effect, there have been 70S ar
rivals and 673 sailings from British
ports of the United Kingdom and that
German submarines have sunk seven
VESSELS