Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-12-18
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BALKAN MOVE
Greece and Roumanian Diplomats
Engaged in Several New
Deals.
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GERMANS FIND LINE '>~ '".s
HARD TO PIERCE
Italians Have Landed $4,000 Men
in Albania to Assist
Serbians.

LOHuON, Lee. I|.-Wnllc Tie 0lplO-
mats in Greece and Rouman:a are en-
gagged in new deals which will decide
the next step in the Balkan opera
tons, there is increasing evidence
that the Germans, ever restive, are
preparing new strokes on bot:l the
eastern and western fronts, or at
least a concentration of their forces
to fight when the conditions are pr..
pitiOus.
Dispatches from IPetrograd note
German activity, particularly in the
Dvinsk district, which would accord
with the German ambition 20 reac.
the line of the Dvina river, while all
accounts from neutral countries mcn.
ton a continued movement of men
and guns to the west. In the latter
theater of operations it seems only
question at what poin: the offens-
i've is to be taken.
Considerable Activity.
Many persons believed that the Ger
mans, having found the lines in Elan
ders and Artois too hard to pierce,
contemplate moving in the Saint Mi
hiel region, where their: line pene>
trates to the river Meuse,, and where
there has been considerable activity
during the last few days.
In the Balkans, military operations
are practically at standstill. A: big
battle is in progress in the valley OF
the Albanian or Elack 'Drin river. At
last reports. no decisive areaNlts.s had
been obtained on either, side, 4 ~ i 4
italians - Rescue. ~,
1t is said, however, that the ..Bulga-
rians, who crossed the river, found
the Serbians had been reinforced ana
were driven back with heavy losses.
1t is possible that the Serbian coun-
ter attacks were made possible by
supplies having reached them from
the Italians, who landed on the A.
banian coast and who are trying. to
open communications with Serbia.
The Italians, it is understood, already
have landed $4,000 men.
English Earl Dead. ..-.,
Earl de la War, aged 10, died yes.
terday, at Messina, from rheumatic
fever followed by pneumonia. He had
been serving in the Darcanelles. TIE
de la War family is one OF the Oldest
and most distinguished in England.
The state OF Delaware was named af-
ter a member Of this family.
The German patrol boat, Bunz, has
been wrecked on the Island of Lange.
land in the Baltic sea, according to
a dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph
company from Copenhagen. The bod
les of several German officers were
found on tie shore, the dispatch adds.
2& Germany Threatens.
Germany has threatened to expel
the Entente allies from Saloniki, ac-
cording to the Times Athens CORE
spondent:
"Replying to Greek diplomatic rep.
which had as their aim
the preventing of the entry of Austro-
troops into Greece" says
the correspondent, "the German min
ister declared that the Notifications
which the Allies are constructing at
Saoniki would compel Germany to
take action to drive out the allied
forces.
premier Skouloudis rejoined that.
in no case would Greece allow Bull
garians to set foot on Greek SOIL"
Call on Premier.
A dispatch to the Havas agency
rom Athens, dated Thursday, says:
"The ministers of the Quadrup'e
Entente called again on the premier
regarding the facilities de-
handed for the allied troops In Mace.
lonia. The German minister called
IN NJ. Skouloudis at noon today"
KITCHENER NOT ENGAGED.
London, Dec. lit was officially
tonight by the British sec
'etary of war that the report OF tie
of Earl Kitchener to the
)owager Countess of ;Minto was un.
rue. The announcement says:
"The report is absolutely untrue
md without any foundation"
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