Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-02-15
KAISER To OFFER
ITALY TERRITORY
TO JOIN IN WAR
(By Associated Press.)

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 15.-Lit-
tie authentic information can be secur-
ed today regarding the great struggle
in progress for possession of Poland
and Galicia and Bukowina, where an
indecisive battle has been fought. In
northern Poland the contending armies
have reached the point of exhaustion,
and operations in that region are said
to have temporarily suspended with
neither having scored victory.
In East Prussia and the extreme
north of Poland, the retreating Rus
slams are apparently seeking favorable
ground where another stand will be
made, and upon this battle, military
experts contend, rests the fate of the
German province. With ranks already
decimated by the murderous Russian
fire around the Mazurian lakes and be-
fore Insterberg and constantly har-
rassed by a well-organized Russian
rear-guard, the German army contin-
ued its headlong pursuit of the fleeing
Muscovites today. The fighting in that
region has consisted of intermittent
firing, mainly by parties of concealed
Russians, with the Germans hourly
drawing nearer the Russian defensive
works, and the temperature growing
more intense as the hardships of the
march increased. The Russians are
now near their frontier defenses, and
behind their own forts, under the pro-
lection of heavy artillery, the Russians
are expected to make a stand. Whether
the Germans will continue the pursuit
without rest, or renew the battle be-
fore re-inforcements reach them, can
not be forecast today.
Official reports are so conflicting as
to give little weight to claims sent out
either from Vienna or Petrograd, both
claiming successes at the front. The
Petrograd statement claims Russian
armies are in control in Galicia and the
Carpathians, while a portion of Buko-
wilma, while the Vienna version of the
fighting is altogether different. Ac-
cording to the statement of the Aus
trian war ministry issued this after
noon, several important Carpathian
passes are held by troops of the dual
alliance, while the Russians are al
legged to have been driven out of Buk-
owina altogether.
An important new factor injected in
to the war situation over the weekend
is set forth in announcements carried
by Rome newspapers this afternoon
These announcements, which are said
to have been inspired by German Off
cial communications, declare Italy IS
about to intervene in the European
situation, and that her resources will
be thrown into the scales in a military
effort to enforce peace between the
warning nations. Territorial conces-
sions, it is said, have been offered the
Italian authorities by Austro-Hungary
in exchange for that nations interven-
tion and if the information on which
today's reports are based be true the
army and navy of Italy will shortl7
throw its strength upon the side of
the Germans. Italian control of the
Adriatic, with an Italian protectorate
over Albania, and the satisfaction OF
differences existing between Italy and
Turkey, are related as being among
considerations offered Italy for inter-
vention. The disposition of Constan-
tinople is to be adjusted when peace
is concluded, according to current re-
ports, while Belgium and certain por-
tions of France are to remain under
the German flag.