The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-01-19
RUSSIANS MENACE
EAST PRUSSIA AGAIN
Turks, After Making a De
ternained Stand at Kara :
Urgan Have Been Dealt
Another Staggering Blow
Garrison at Adrianople
Withdrawn - The Paris
Figaro Says Italy, Greece,
Rournania a n d Bulgaria
Will Enter War.
BY AssocIATED PRESS.

EEtEoS.
London, Jan. 1S.-The fact that the
German official report omits reference
to scissors, the scene of the recent
marked German success and the
French statement that there was no
change in that region, leads to the
belief that a renewal of the violent
struggle is impending. The temper
airy quiet is believed to be the fact that
neither side dares risk an offensive
under the present circumstances.
Elsewhere in the west there have
been widely separated engagements.
but the weather is again playing an
important part A storm in Belgium
prevents operations except artillery
duals, and the snow in Vosges, at the
other extremity OF the line, makes an
attack exceedingly difficult In Ar
gonne, however, fighting is almost con-,
tinuous, and each side claims minor
successes. For the time being the
Germans seem to be more on the often
sives than on the defensive.
The German reports of all eastern
Operations are brief but those Of RuSs
STA are more detailed. It is believed
the Russians again menace East Prus-
STA and Posen. According to reports
the Turks have been dealt another
staggering blow after making de-
termined stand in the snow at Kara
Urgan in the Caucasus. They are
fighting rear guard actions, but are be-
ing pressed back in disorder toward
Erzerum.
A dispatch from Athens says the
Turkish garrison at Adrianople has
now completely withdrawn. No ex-
PLANTATION is made. A partial with
drawal was previously reported.
LONDON papers print a forecast from
the Paris Figaro that Italy, Greece.
Roulnania and Bulgaria viii join the
allies. Nothing is more definite, how
ever. than 1t was fortnight ago.
EXPECT GERMAN MOVE
London recalled that today was the
forty fourth anniversary of the proc
lamation of Wilhelm as German en-
peror and it was expected that the
day might bring news of widespread
German effort to follow up with still
more important movement the sue
cess achieved last week ABOUT scissors
In London it is believer that the
Germans have adopted what is vir-
tually a defensive role west of War
saw-some British observers arguing
that has been forced upon them by
superior Russian numoers-and that
defensive tactics synchronize with the
movement of many thousands of many
thousands of Teutonic troops from
Poland to the western battle fields.
Fighting at scissors some British
commentators declare to- be the pre-
cursor of the entry of the new troops
upon vigorous offensive, perhaps an
attempt to cross the river Aisne. At
scissors the Frenrh failed to hold their
positions on the northern bank of the
river, and for the Germans to attempt
to gain the other bank is regarded as
a probable development. AS to future
engagements in that region, it appears
to be a fact that the French artillery
on the hills south of the Aisne COM
mands. all the approaches to the river
and that it will have to be reckoned
with.
ANOTHER GREAT ARMY
In the east the steady pressure which
the arrival of one million of last year
leyies has enabled the Russians to
exert upon the Germans, according to
news dispatches reaching London, has
been slowly pushing back the German
line west of Warsaw. Dispatches to-
day report the Russian reoccupation OF
Flock. That has not been confirmed
officially, but the Russians on Satur-
day crossed the Skrawa river a few
miles below that point and may have
been able to occupy the city. Russian
forces already had reached Sierpec and
Gombin, respectively directly north and
south of this provincial capital
The Russian defeat of the Turks, if
the claims of Petrograd are fully borne
out, was so decisive that it may mark
the close of the Ottoman attempt to
invade Russia in the Caucasian region.