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Bulgaria Agrees With
Turkey to Preserve
Armed Neutrality
RUSSIANS ESCAPE
Germans Move against Dvinsk
Cars Troops Believed
Out of Wilma Net.

London, England.-Recent reports
that Turkish war supplies are run
| mig short are reiterated in privat,
4 reports brought to Switzerland from
Constantinople. 1t is declared tha
because of the lack of raw materia
1000 workmen from the Krupp plan
in Germany are idle in the ottoman
capital.
Little further light has beer
thrown on Bulgaria attitude toward
the belligerents, the latest report be
ing contained in a London newspa-
per dispatch last night from Sofia
that Premier Radoslavoff had an.
nounced to his followers the signing
of convention with Turkey for the
future maintenance of an armed neu.
trality on the part of Bulgaria.
Reports from the Italian front are
that SHOWS already are rendering the
operations of Italians and Austrians
in the mountain district increasingly
difficult.
Dvinsk New Objective
London, England.-The strongly
fortified Russian city of Dvinsk, on
the Dvina river, no miles southeast
of Riga, has become the new Ger
man objective, now that the Russian
armies apparently have escaped from
the Wilma net. German forces east
and southeast of Ida are now maxi
ing more rapid progress, but their
increased speed at this time is ex-
pected to gain them little lin view of
the fact that the safe retreat of the
greater part of the Russian forces
now seems to be assured. The chief
success of the Germans in the last
day or two has been along the Dvina
front, which bars the road to Petro--
grad. Southwest of Dvinsk the in
vaders captured Russian trenches on
front of nearly two miles, taking
1000 prisoners and eight machine
guns Further down the river, near
Friedrichstadt, the Russians have
gained minor success.
Russian Strike Off
For the time being the domestic
situation in Russia is quescent. The
strike in portest at the propagation
of the Duma has been suspended, but
may be revived if the government
persists in opposition to the move
ment in favor of reassembing the
parliament and permitting the for
nation of new cabinet.
Mobilization of the Bulgarian
forces continues to excite keen in
crest, but the beligerent as we'll as
The neutral world seems to be in the
dark as to the purpose which die
.ates this movement.
BOmbArdment Continues.
Paris, France-The violent artil-
lery fighting which has characterized
the operations in France for more
than three weeks still continued YES
terday and last night at number
of places along the battle line. ac-
cording to an official announcement
here this afternoon The engage
ments were particularly severe near
becklcourt, to the north and south
or the river Arne.
Russia Announces Withdrawal
Petrograd, Russia (via London)
The Russian military authorities
regard the withdrawal from tho very
difficult position near Wilma, which
for the time seriously menaced a
large army, as virtually completed.
They assert that the Germans have
lost 100000 men in their recent op-
Grafton in this region.
Berlin, Germany (via London)-
New German Offensive
A new German offensive movement.
with its object, the capture of the
important Russian fortified city
Dvns1, has made definite progress.
The war office announced today that
the Russian advanced positions west
of that city have been penetrated
and that more than 1000 prisoners
and several machine guns were cap
tured.