Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-01-14
AUSTRIA, BESE7 BY
GROWING HORDE OF
FOES, SCENTS RUIN
Germans Send Aid to Ally to
Crush Servia-Rushing For
LITIGATION of Italian Frontier
-Rumania to Strike.
CRISIS is NEAR AT HAND
Russians Sweeping Bukowina
Germans Drive at Warsaw
From Two Directions
Combat RACES.
CRISIS is NEAR AT HAND

London, Jan. 1.-THE position OF
Austria Hungary, according to observ-
Frs 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
innsbruck, via Geneva. The line of
Observation-Disclosures is being
fortified, cement : platforms laid for
heavy artillery recently brought up.
n the roads reinade under the 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 CORE
spondent says that Rumania is mo
billing 10000 men-JO0, 600 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 more or less
rehabilitated, is described in London
as attacking the dual monarchy from
the south with renewed vigor. Aus
tria declares that the latest Servian at
tempts have been repulsed. Neverthe-
less, credence is given in England to
Nii' itEoi - lldl htl many i PldIliliilS
to throw troops TO the assistance
of her ally in a third attempt to crush
the country of the Serbs. One
hundred thousand Prussians and
500. 600 Austrians, it is said, are to be
employed in this campaign, the Teu-
tonic allies deeming such a move i'm
perative in view of the grave situa-
ton in the Balkans.
Hungary Badly Shaken.
Meanwhile tho PnGci1n SWpan
through the Austrian crown lands of
Bukowina continues unchecked. &C
cording to news dispatches reaching
London. and this army is expected by
British observers soon to be we'll over
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 war
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.
flict in England look to the eastern
arena for immediate developments of
Importance.
New Drive at Warsaw.
'Ni 'iSs - IN CIV Sd nll at
Warsaw from two directions. Along
the Vistula to the west of the Polish
capital, heavy fighting has been re-
sumed and at the same time n new
attack has been launched from the
north. The Petrograd wan office de-
scribed the fighting as more and more
desperate. and admits that the Ger
mans made advances at many points.
but says that they We're subsequently
driven back again.
a Geneva reports says that an. Aus
trian army has been trapped in Galicia
by the Russians. who by ar unexpected
movement caught the Austriaps at u
disadvantage on difficult groundS;an
placed them in a precarious position.
There was no confirmation, however,
of this report.
Slow Work In West.
In Belgium and France the allies are
making some hard earned gains and
the also here and there are
making progress. The opposing foycea
are so nearly evenly matched and the
positions of their trenches are such that
sapping and bomb throwing must be
relied on chiefly to bring any gains ana
barring a lucky victory in the sporadic
artillery duels, this form of warfare
doubtless will persist along the line in
FLANDERS and in France until the wealth
er improves the ground and permits
more extensive infantry operations.
The French advance in Alsace APP
parently has been checked. Both the
French and the German official state
ments of today tell of the recapture by
the Germans of B~urnhaupt Le-Haut,
the town south of S~teinbach, capture OF
which by the French was announced
yesterday.
In the Argonne violent fighting Ia
again in progress. In the charge the
French lost a number of men as Tho
result of traps set by the Germans, WHO
permitted them to occupy a trench and
then blew it up.
Fighting has been sumo in the
Aisne region. where the allies claim,
to nave captured three lines of German
trenches, covering GOO matres of the
front. The German statement, however
says that French attacks in this region
We're repulsed.
Several days have passed since thu
first reports of Russian victories over
the Turks in the Caucasus, but the
Turks have not yet admitted any re,
verses in this territory.