Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-02-19

neutral states that this zone will here
after be danger zone for all ship
ping and has expressed her determina-
tion Of taking the most stringent ac-
ton against the British merchantmen.
IL Is announced from Berlin that
Germany's reply TO the American note
Of protest against such action has been
handed TO the American ambassador
At the German capitol, but this reply
has not yet been received by the state
department at Washington.
In the meantime Germany in deyel-
oping her submarine warfare has
added one more merchant ship TO the
list Of vessels destroyed by sinking
the small French steamer Vile De
Lille off Cherbourg
Heavy Fighting Continues.
Regarding the operations on land,
it is apparent from the official an
nounccment issued by the French war
Office that heavy hghtIng is taking
place both in Belgium and in France
The French claim not only to have
maintained the ground recently gained
but TO have captured some OF the
German trenches and repeiled many
counter attacks by the Germans.
French aviators have dropped bombs
on the railway station at Freiburg,
Baden
Field Marshal Won lIindenburg' S
successful operations against the Rus
sian tenth army I'm east Prussia are
still being celebrated in Berlin, where
Won Hindenburg's direction of the
campaign is described as having been
characterized by mastery skill Of
tCially ii Is announced that rhe Ger
man troops are still following the Rus
slams north of the Niemen river.
In Poland, north of the Vistula from
PloCk, recently occupied by the Ger
mans, to Racion2, another great battle
is apparently developing, the fighting
I'm that region already being of des-
perate nature.
Austria according to Swiss advices,
for 10 days has been concentrating
troops chiefly artillery, on the Italian
frontier. Guns have been emplaced
to dorsk1ate the TyrClese passes All
along %S entire boundary Of Serbia
ANanian forces are active. Orchida,
100 miles north of Janina, has been
captured by the Albanians and Wo-
lent fighting is in progress at several
places.
seaport BloCkadcd.
A Constantinople dispatch to Ber-
lin says that the Bulgarian seaport of
Dedeagatch, on the Aegean sea, is
hlockaded by British and French war
ships to prevent foodstuffs from being
transported to Germany and Austria
through this route.
Copenhagen hears 4 report that five
million Germans, ineligible for army
service, who have Independent means,
are to be ordered by the German gov
ernment to proceed TO neutral coun-
tries and there remain until the end
of the war in order to decrease the
consumption Of food in the empire.
A report from Basel, Switzerland,
says that Emperor William, who has
invited Mr. Gerard, the American am
bassador to Germany, to the east Prus-
sian front will personally apologize
to the ambassador for the demonstra-
ton made against him recently in a
Berlin theatre. Basel gives a Berlin
dispatch as the basis for this state
ment.
Great Britain in her answer to the
American protest against the deten-
ton of American ships by British war
vessels denies that Great Britain un-
duly detains ships or that the naval
operations of Great Britain have been
the cause Of any diminuton in the
volume of American exports, adding
that if the commerce Of the United
States is in the unfavorable condition
charged in the American note "the
cause ought, in fairness, to be sought
elsewhere than in the activities of his
maiosty's naval forces"
Among these causes the note cites
the shortage Of shipping facilities, the
consequent diminution Of the cotton
trade and the destruction by sub
marine mines laid by the enemy" of
many neutral vessels.
The answer comedies that foodstuffs
for Il civil population are not contra
band, but says "in any country in
which there exists such tremendous
organization for war as now obtains
in Germany, there Is no clear division
between those whom the government
Is responsible for feeding and whom
It Is not
The note says Great Britain will re-
talate against Germany's submarine
campaign, but does not go into details
concerning its proposed procedure.