The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1915-01-14
BES[1 BY
GROWING HORDE OF
FOES, SCENTS Ruin
Germans Send Aid to Ally to
Crush Servia-Rushing For
LITIGATION of Italian Frontier
-Rumania to Strike.
|CRlSIS is NEAR AT HAND
Russians Sweeping Bukowina
Germans Drive at Warsaw
From Two Directions
Combat RACES.
CRISIS is NEAT AT HAND

London. Jan. 1.-THE position o
Austria Hungary, according to observ-
ers who today are giving expression to
their views, Is most critical. Fearing
that Italy is preparing to join the en-
tente forces, feverish preparations are
being made to defend her southern
frontier, according to advices from
innsbruck, via Geneva. The line of
Brixen-M oran-B ozen-Trent is being
fortified. cement platforms laid for
heavy artillery recently brought up
and the roads remade under h super
vision OF German and Austrian officers.
1t is believed that the hour for Italy
to strike is near at hand. On the east
ern Austrian front, Rumania Is ex-
pected to take the field at any moment.
The Morning Posts Bucharest corre-
spondent says that Rumania is mo-
bilizing 100000 men-5O0,00O of them
are ready to take the field at once. Ru-
mania, he adds. will strike even though
Italy decides to stay out Of the war.
Will Try to Crush Servia.
Servia, with her army moro or less
rehabilitated, liz described in London
as attacking the dual monarchy from
the south with renewed vigor. Aus
tria declares that the latest Servfan at
tempts hav been repulscd. Neverthe-
less, credence is given In England to
the reports that Germany is planning
to throw troops to the assistance
of her ally In a third attempt to crush
the country Of the Serbs, ons
100000 A~ustrians, it is said, are to be
employed In this campaign, the Teu-
tonic allies deeming such a move Inn
perative in view of he grave situa-
ton In the Balkans. /,
Hungary Badly Shaken.
Meanwhile the Russian sweep
through the Austrian crown lands OF
~ Rll0winl. C0nfinllaH G"nchGCkod. aC-
cording to news dispatches reaching
London, n this army is expected by
British observers soon to be Well ovei
the mountains forming the boundary
into Hungary.
Threatened from the east and from
the south and with Rumania preparing
to cast her lot with the allies, the wal
Is being brought to Hungary's front
door. This is in sharp contrast to the
comparative isolation from strife
which Germany continues to enjoy
with only small strips Of territory In
east Prussia and Alsace occupied by
her antagonists. Now more than ever
before, therefore. followers of the con.
arena for immediate developments OF
Importance.
New Drive at Warsaw.
German armies are again striking a.
Warsaw from two directions. Along
the Vistula to the west of the Polish
Capital, heavy 1lSilllIl5 HAS DGSil IS
sumed and at the same time a new
attack has been launched from thu
north. The Petrograd var office de-
scribed the fighting as more and NOR
desperate, n admits that the Ger
mans made advances at many points
but says that they were subsequent,
driven back again.
A Geneva reports says that an Aus
.rian army has been trapped in Galici;
! BY the Russians, who by an unexpected
movement caught the Austrians at
, disadvantage on difficult ground an
r placed them in a precarious position
r There was no confirmation, however
: bf this report.
Slow Work In West.
2 In Belgium and France the allies ar
making some hard earned gains an
The Germans also here and there ar
making progress. The opposing force
I Ire so nearly evenly matched and tn
: positions of their trenches are such tina
e tapping and bomb throwing must b
: relied on chiefly to bring any gains an
barring a lucky victory in the sporadi
,rtillery duels. his form of warfar
doubtless will persist along the line i
Flanders and in France until the wealth
A n improves the ground and permit
+ more extensive infantry operations.
The French advance III Alsace aP
Darently has been checked. Both tn
= French and the German official state
u nents of today tell of the recapture b
II he Germans of Burnhaupt Le-Hau
9 he town south of Steinbach, capture c
:. which by the French was announce
2 yesterday.
A In the Argonne violent fighting j
l again in progress. In the charge tn
French lost a number of men as tn
= ,esult of traps set by the Germans, VIII
!. permitted them to occupy d trench an
hen blew it up.
Fighting has been resumed In til
Aisne region, where the allies clail
T 20 have captured three mes Of Germa
. trenches. covering 500 matres of tt
'front.'. The German statement, howeve
lays that FrencA attacks in this regio
le we're repulsed.
Several days AVE passed since tl
first reports of Russian victories oY'
!. the Turks in the Caucasus, but tt
n Turks have not yet admitted any IT
= verses in this territory.