The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-11-20
Italian Declaration Of War on Germany Matter of Hours


/ Notes From |
War Fields
London, Nov. 2O.-It is announced
that the American schooner Helen w
Martin. which struck a mine Wednes-
day and later was reported at anchor,
is being towed from Aldenburgh, Suf-
folk, southwark. The Greek steamer
Athamas, which also struck a mine
and was taken into Oaze Deep. in the
Thames estuary. has been beached.
London, Nov. 20.-Kenneth G.. Tri-
est, the former Princeton student held
in London as German spy, has been
released by the British authorities and
will leave with his father for the Uni
ted States today.
Triest. who is said to be 10 years
old, is the son of Wolfgang G. Triest,
a member of New York contracting
firm. He was arrested in London in
October. Triest left Princeton last
January and enlisted as wireless op-
orator in the British navy. Writing
charged, promised to deliver in Ber-
lin valuable, secrets which he claimed
to have learned. It was the intercep-
tion Of this letter which led to his
arrest and confinement in the tower Of
London. Representations made to the
British government by the state de-
partment at Washington resulted in
the trial Of the prisoner on a charge of
| espionage being postponed until Get.
1S and then indefinitely.
Wo1fgang Triest recently went to
London with the purpose of attempt
ing to secure the release Of his son,
previously having visited, washington
and presenting evidence to the state
department tending to prove that
young Triest was mentally unbalanced.
Petrograd, Nov. 20.-via London
The relations between Russia and Pol
and. which have been little discussed
since the retirement from Warsaw,
have been brought again into the field
Of debate by the Polish lawyer, Alex
ander r., Lednitsky. at Moscow.
Several interesting expressions on
the subject have been elected by NJ.
Lednitsky, notably one from the pen of
Prince Eugene Troubetskoy, who has
just been elected a member of the i'm
pertat COUNCIL.
Prince Troubetskoy declared that the
interests of Russia and Poland are
bound together and that Poland
| free and possibly altogether independ-
ent. is essential to the independence
of Russia The seizure OF Poland by
Germany would be the first step in
the dismemberment Of Russia, said
Prince Troubetskoy, as Germany was
coyetous of Lithuania. the Baltic
provinces and part Of the Black sea
coast NJ. Lednitsky's purpose in
| Initiating the discussion is thought by
many to be to prevent consolidation
| of the opinion noted in some quarters
that Russia sdd experienced only dis
liIlusionrns in Poland and was
unintercstsa IN its further fate
Paris. Nov. 20. =" Taxa Jonescu
former Roumanian minister OF the
! interior has announced" says dis
/ patch to the Temps from Bucharest
dated Wednesday last, that he would
speak at Jassy on Sunday on the
| diplomatic origin Of the treaty be-
| tween Roumania and Austria Hun
gary, which he said was due to a
menace on the part Of Austria almost
I Of the same nature as that Of Serbia in
/ 1914. -r. ....'
M. Jonescu asserted that without
| this alliance in effect 1t is probable
| that Austria would have attacked
i Roumania as she did Serbia last year
1 He said he proposed to tell his COM
4 catastrophe which will result II
Roumanians fail to do it,
"'The Austro- -Roumanian alliance
has dominated Roumania's policy said
M. Jonescu, except two years age
when Roumania sided with Serbia
aaginst Bulgaria. which was upheld by
Austria. This attempted emancipation
surprised and frightened Vienna. II
was one of the causes Of inctting
Austria to folly in 1914. A great mis-
take of Roumanian politicians has
{, been to persist in this alliance when Il
has lost its reason for existence.
| "'After the conclusion of the Triple
Entente it was evident that the equili-
brium Of the forces had been re-estab-
| lished. The unnatural alliance became
then a big mistake. 1t is to this fatal
alliance that we owe big number OF
difficulties today; so many Roumanian
officers, thanks to it, have studied In
Germany and Austria without any
benefit to our army. Moreover, thanks
Ito it, we have no artillery, infantry
mountain artillery nor Notifications In
the Carpathians and no gun and munt-
tions factories.
/ "T do not want to disguise the un-
fortunate inactivity Of my country.
propose only to reveal small part OF
our history which explains the great
work already accomplished since Au-
gust, 1914. If Austria. thirty years ago,
was able to force on us an alliance
L ste xyiV q Y-anIlnria ftnn nf
all the future but servitude in the
present, what would be our situation
| tomorrow as to an Austria victorious
and in which the Magyars would be all
powerful
Paris, Nov. 2o.-The chamber of
deputies yesterday adopted a bill CIV
ing preference in the government serv-
ice to men mutilated or disabled in the
war. The preference extends to every
branch Of the civil service, and not
merely to one-half of the places, as
had been ordered under a ministerial
decree.
| Amendments to the measure were
accepted giving the preference among
! the mutilated or disabled, 70. those who
were the fathers OF the largest fami-
lies Another amendment, voted unan-
Iimously was that places should be re-
served also for disabled soldiers in
lmonopolies subsidized by the state.
London, Nov. 20.-The admiralty is
sued the following statement last
evening:
| 'Lieutenant Commander Layton,
who commanded E-13 which was de-
stroyed in Danish waters, has escaped
from the Nanel barracks where he was
interned. He was not on parole"
London. Nov. 90. The threatened