The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1915-12-16
GERMAN TREASURY
HEAD SAYS BRITISH
MUST END STRUGGLE
Declares Handwriting
Is Already On
The Wall
GREEK BORDER IS
GREEK BORDER IS

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And Germans In Pursuit
Of Allied Troops
Berlin, Germany,-In the course
of his address before the Reichstag
i yesterday, DR. Karl Helfferich. Sec
retary of the treasury, said: ..Re-
sponsibility for the blood which will
iiow from now on, for the misery
which comes upon the world and
for the danger to which civilization
is exposed, falls not upon Germany,
put upon those who cannot resolve
10 draw the conclusion from Ger
many's military successes, which no
one can dispute any longer.''
The responsibility falls upon those,
Who in their foolish and criminal IL
lusion, still speak of annihilation and
partition of Germany and Of war
of exhaustion. We stand like rocks
on the soil of the home country, and
on the columns Of the British empire
are written in glaring letters the
same words as were written on the
wall of Belshazzar's palace"
Bulgars Stop at Border.
London, England THE Bulgarins
now definitely are declared to have
stopped their pursuit Of the Anglo
French forces at the Greek boundary
line. The newspapers in Athens ex-
press the belief that neither the
Bulgarians nor the German troops
will cross the Greek frontier,
The Allied front is said now to ex-
tend as far as Buskus, Greece, about
twenty-five miles north of Saloniki.
Further accounts Of the Allied re-
tirement describe 1T as orderly and
we'll conducted. Virtually all of the
Allies war material is preserved,
the Allies declare.
Battle on Greek Soil.
London, England.The next big
battle will in all probability be fought
in Greece, despite the efforts Of the
Hellenic king and government to save
their country from the horrors of
war.
The British and French forces have
made good their retirement down the
Vardar valley and are now approach
ing Saloniki where reinforcements
are being landed, while reports re-
ceived in Paris and Rome cay that
the Bulgarians have crossed the
Greek frontier in pursuit. The re-
ports of such action by the Bulgar-
ians come somewhat as a surprise, as
it had been thought that such move
by them would provoke the Greeks
and that consequently if the entente
allies are followed at all the task
would be allotted to the Austrians
and Germans.
There has been more fighting on
the Gallipoli peninsula. The Turks
claim here to have repulsed an at
tack against their left wing at Sed-
dull Balhr, but the Turkish official
communications declare that nothing
new has occurred at Kut-el-Amara,
where the Turks are operating again
st the British, who retired from the
Bagdad region. This is taken in
military circles here as an admission
on the part of the Turks that their
attacks on the British position on the
Tigris have failed.
The previous report of the losses
the Turks inflicted on the British,
when the British retired down the
river. are declared in private infor-
nation now reaching London to have
been exaggerated. For example, the
three vessels which they captured
turned out to have been a tug boat
and two barges.
The Italians are still hammering
away at the Austrian positions
around Goriza. The town of Gorilla.
itself, has again been bombarded
Austrian officers, who have been
through many big battles on the
eastern front, describe the Italian
artillery fire as more terrific and
continuous than any they had pre-
viously experienced.
The appointment Of General Sir
Horace Smith-Dorien to the supreme
command of the forces operating in
East Africa means that the British
are taking steps in an endeavor to.
clear the Germans out of the only
colony that remains to them except
a part of the Kameruns. The Ger
mans are in strong force in east Af-s
rica but General Smith D0rien, with
the army that is being raised in South
Africa, the troops who are already
there and those who are going from
home hopes to complete his new Job
in short order. The commander. like
the men under him, is experienced
in African warfare.
Ira Barnes Of Aberdeen, Brown