Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-10-12
Must Either Send Big Army
to Peninsula or Await
Developments,
SIR EDWARD GREY TO
OUTLINE PLAN TODAY
Old School Diplomacy Is
RoundIy Criticized Over
Latest Failure.


4 While the armies Of the central
empires continue to advance into
Serbia nothing has yet been made
public to indicate anything in the ma
ture of an actual military move by
Bulgaria against Serbia, except a re-
port that an assault is momcntarily
expected on the railroad connecting
Nish and Salonki.
Rumania is showing increasing
alarm on account Of the threatened
military movement by Bulgaria and
the central powers in close proximity
to her frontiers. but neither Athens
nor Bucharest is exhibiting any readi-
ness to depart from policy of benev-
olent neutrality toward the triple en-
tente powers.
The official reports of the fighting
along the major fronts were un-
usually meager today, the only sig
nificant point i'm any of them being
the statement from Berlin that Field
Marshal Won Hindenburg on the
Dvinsk front had repulsed RUSSIAN
attacks which seemingly would indi-
cate that for the first time since the
German drive through Poland began,
the Austro-Germans are making no
big offensive at any point along the
whole eastern front.
Parliament Meets Tuesday.
or the fighting in the west the
French official communication in re-
viewing the recent German counter
attack on LoOs says the Germans lett
between seven and eight thousand
dead before the positions which they
tried in vain to rccapture.
The meeting of the British parlla-
ment tomorrow promises to be of un-
usual importance. The Anglo-trcnch
loan of $500, 900, 900, obtained in the
United states. viii be discussed and
ratified, although there probably Will
be a few dissenters who have been
found to oppose every act OF the gov
crnment since war was declared.
The country will await with far
greater interest however, for what
ever light Sir Edward Grey may throw
uDon the Balkan developments and
whether he or Premier Asquith Will
reveal the cabinets policy on the vital
alternative which COntronts 1t. That
alternative is whether Great Britain
and France will throw all the forces
they can command into the Balkan
peninsula for the protection of Serbia
and Greece against TeutOnic-B -Bulgar
aggression or will let events there
take their course. The military and
newspaper critics are agreed that one
or the other path must be followed.
What Military Experts Say.
The Influential Westminster Gazette
seconds the protest of the Times mill
tary expert against submitting to Ger
man diCtation in the initiative, say
Ing: ,
''If there is to be an expedition, it
must be on a sufficient scale and we
must not weaken the west The gov
ernment i'm other words must have
a clear idea of how to get men in
addition to those on whom it had
previously counted
The attack on the foreign office
and Sir Edward Grey. the foreign
minister, promises to prove flash
i'm the pan, and to carry the country
with il as little as did the attack on
Earl Kitchener.
Sir Edward Grey is the most pop
ular civilian in the country. The
Weaknesses of the British diplomatic
service are no new discovery. The
Diplomatic staff is largely composed
of the old school arstocracy who
are unequal to dealing with the
shifting and complicated problems
and elusive politicians they encoun-
tered in the Balkans The on a,
disposition is to credit Sir Edward
with doing as we'll as possible with
the licutenants at his disposal
Discard Secret Diplomacy.
Nevertheless the diplomatic failure
I'm the Balkans has given great
impetus to the movement to throw
overheard secret diplomacy and re-
build the staff of the diplomatic
corps on more democratic basis,
which undoubtedly will be one of the
foremost demands of the liberal
masses after the war