, 1915-01-16

A despatch from Copenhagen to the
DAILY Telegraph quotes u diplomat of n
neutral Power as saying that for some time
there has been q difference between the EN-
peror and Count Berchtold, the latter hay
ing declared that he would no longer be
responsible for the Austrian war policy, and
advising that peace should be obtained now
on the best possible conditions before Aus
tria was absolutely ruined. Count BorcL-
told ~draughted the ultimatum to Servia
which caused the war.
The DAILY Chronicle says that Count
Berchtold is paying the penalty Of his failure
to prevent Russian influence from becom-
ing paramount at Bucharest. The complete
ness Of that failure, the paper declares, is
shoWn by the fact that at the outbreak Of
war Roumania was bound to Austria HUI
gary by an offensive and defensive mill
tary convention, aud by the utter dDsas-
ter that Roumania's conjunction with
the Entente Powers, now inevitable,
means to the Dual Monarchy. Roumanja's
entry into the field means the inevitable loss
to Hungary Of her great province of Tran
sylyania and will open the direct road from
the east to Buda Pest and Vienna. LTplo-
matically, Count Berchtold is the author OF
this world war, yet he is by temperament Il
pacifst and his diplomacy has been charac-
terized by weakness. His failure to take ad-
vantage of the Balkan conflict caused a strong
agitation against him, amt this agitation was
responsible for his yielding 10 tue war purity
LED by Count Tisza last summer.
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London, Jpu.15th The Bank of England,
reserve ratio is now 32.71.
A Paris official communicate issued yester-
day afternoon says "In Belgium the firing
of our artillery has been iutertercd with by
fog, nevertheless the connonadiug yesterday
was very spirited in the vicinity of
Newport and mouud Ypres. Certain de-
tachments of the Belgians blew up at 1t
point south-east Of Huyvekneskerke some
buildings on a farm sen wing the enemy as IA
depot for ammunition. Between the Lvs
and the Disc, in the region of Lens, our
artillery was successful in dispensing groups
Of German pioneers on the outskirts of the
hamlet of Angres and IN bombardiag effec-
lively the German trenches southeast of the
Chapel de Notre Dame de Lorette. North
of SCISSORS there was determined fighting
all yesterday, the engagement being local
ized to n section north o. Crouy and we hold
only the first slopes of these hills. On our left
in this field our couEter-attack made
slight progress, without succeeding III re-
cording any material advance. On our cen
ire we retained our position around the vii
lage Of Crouy, despite the repeated etforts
Of the enemy to dislodge us, but on the
east, before Yregny, we were obliged to
yield. The continued flooded state of the
Aiane carried away several regular bridges
and some temporary bridges which we
threw across the river, and the com
munications OF our troops were conse-
quently made uncertain. Under these
conditions We established ourselves on the
south bank Of the river, in the region be-
tween Crouy and Missy, with the bridge
heads on the north bank in our possession.
Along the remainder of our front on the
Aisne yesterday there were only artillery
exchanges. In the Champagne region, Per-
thes continues to be the scene of local en-
g%agements for the possession Of the German
trenches on a section of their third line Of
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