Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1915-01-14
Kitchener's Reply When Ask.
ed When Fighting Will End.
NEW LEYlES GO FORWARD
Russian Reinforcements Of 1900, 900
Men Just Leaving the Training
camps-Germany Also Sending Ad-
ditionaI Troops to the Front.

ditional Troops to the Front.
London, JAM 12.-There are increas-
ing indications of the early participa-
ton of Roumania in the war, thus
bringing into play another party to
the combination against the Teutonlc
powers contemplated by Great Brit
ain, France and Russia.
Difficulties confronted the allies In
the earlier stages of the war In FUR
nishing munitions, equipment and 9TH
er necessities of war beyond those re-
uuired for their own immediate needs.
These difficulties now have been sur
mounted and the obstacle which hith.
erto has blocked full Roumanian mob
ilixation has been removed with the
arrival in that country of the requisite
supplies for the equipment and provi.
sioning of the 100000 men which she
is able to put into the field. Arrange
ments have been made for the financ-
ing of these operations.
The lack of stirring battles at the
present stage of the war is attributed
by British commentators largely to
the determination of the allied COM
manders to content themselves with
holding their present positions until
the projected ring Of armies is con-
sidered sufficiently strong to strike a
blow which they hope will prove de-
cisive.
"War to Begin in May"
The British idea that operations up
to the present are only preparatory
to big events fits in with gossip now
heard in London. 1t is to the effect
that Lord Kitchener, when asked con-
corning the probable duration of the
war, said:
Il don't know when it will end, but
1 do know when it will begin, and that
is in the month of May"
Russia still is sending enormous
masses of men to within easy reach
of various points of her long fighting
line The levies of 1914, amounting
to 100000 men, are just leaving the
training camps, which will be occu-
pied Immediately by the 1915 levies
now called out. Germany's newest
levy, just announced, amounts to 600,-
900 men nineteen years old, and her
masses of reserves already under
arms enable her to rush heavy rein
forcements wherever required with
out withdrawing troops already at the
front in either the eastern or the
western theater. This was shown a
few days ago in Alsace, where the
Germans assembled force sufficient
to recapture Burnhaupt, from which
point the French were threatening
Muelhausen.
Polish Fighting Local.
The fighting in Poland recently has
been purely of local character. The
Germans are said to be contemplating
an attack at new point. Apparently
the Russians are content for the pres.
ent to maintain their straight line
north and south, without attempting
to push westward. A Berlin state.
IuOuI 1CQOl LS uO Clldl46c Ill CdSL ITu6-
sia and Northern Poland and says
that due to unfavorable weather Ger
man attacks west of Warsaw are
making slow progress.
There is no official confirmation of
the reported recapture of Lille by the
allies and for the moment the center
of interest in the western field is Per-
thes, on account of the railroads in
that region, which are of equally great
Importance to both the Germans and
the French. Should either side gain
possession of the railroad now held
by the other, lines Of communication
would be cut and it would be neces. I.
sary to evacuate trenches for con
siderable distance.
The Germans realized that danger
when the French captured Perthes.
and brought up large forces in an at
tempt to regain the lost ground.