The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-02-21
ENGLAND PLANS
TO RE ETALIATE
Brit0ns Await Formal Decree
Presaged in Reply Regard
ing Wilhelmina.
MANIFEST MUCH INTEREST
The First Rush of Germans Over
East Prussia Seems to Have
Spent Itself, According to Re-
ports at London.

Il LONDON, Feb. Gothic British
public today awaited with unusual in
, terest formal PRONUNCIATION of Great
Britains decree making contraband
all food destined for Germany, in re-
taliatiOn against the German declara-
ton that waters about the British
Isles are to be regarded as war zone.
The British reply to- the American
note regarding the Wilhelmina pre-
sages that such retaliatory action will
be taken. Great Britain hopes to meet
with no objection from neutral coun-
, tries.
German movements on the northern
hold first place in the military situa-
tion particularly. Petrograd believes
that Field Marshal Won Hindenburg is
trying to flank Warsaw from the
north, task which the Russians
think rather daring and fraught with
great risks unless the German com
mander's forces are overwhelming.
The first rush of the. Germans over
the East Prussian frontier seems to
have spent itself. The Germans now
are reported to be locked with Russian
reinfOrcements at many points from
the Niemen river below KovnO down
the right bank of the lower Vistula
and military experts in London say it
is difficult to visualize that position
The campaign, in Austrian Buko-
wilma continues, with prospects of de-
veloping into decisive battle on the
banks of the Pruth.
In Galicia repeated violent Aus
trian attacks against the Russian po-
sitions in the Carpathian passes have
been costly to both sides but they
have left the alignment little
changed
In the west Germans are hammer
ing away in an endeavor to recover
lost ground and are reported to be
keeping the British troops especially
busy southeast of Ypres Belgium and
elswhere along their comparatively
extended front. According to French
and British claims however the en-
emy has made no appreciable gains.
The Russians have begun new
attack on the fortified .Galician city
of Przemysl whose resistance of the
besiegers month after month has been
one of the striking features of the
eastern campaign. The Russians are
reported to have brought up new
heavy guns for the assault.
Elsewhere in Galicia, unofficial ad-
vices say, the Russians have gained
measure of success, especially near
Dukla pass. where the Austrians are
said to have suffered heavy losses.
From English sources it Is reported
That the Russians have formed a line
along the Pruth river in Bukowina
and that new battle is developing
This conflicts with recent statements
that the Austrians had cleared Buko-
wilma of the Russians.
In northern Poland, German ac-
counts declare, the German pursuit
OF the Russians continues, ana has
resulted in the winning of several
Polish cities and towns. London be-
lieves however, that .ne first rush of
the Germans into hostile territory
after expelling the Russians from
East Prussia has been stayed
The situation in the west is as de-
void of important changes as has
been the case week after week since
the battle of SCISSORS. Il Berlin milf
tary critic writes that in the west thu
Germans must abandon their bold
warfare for time and restrain them.
selves to a STEADY holding on"