Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-12
STEAM ROLLER
ATTACK ON
MONTENEGRO
Austrian Onslaught Menaces the
Entire Country; May Meet
Fate of Serbia
RUSSIAN ADVANCE IN
WEST Is SLOWING UP
Recent Offensive Of Germans on
West Front Was on Big Scale
Say the RepoEts.

Say the RepoEts.
London, Jan. 11.-Montenegro is
being treated to q steam roller attack
which crushed its friends, the Ser.
bians. The Austrian onslaught witch
has been a long time in preparation,
is now being prosecuted with great
violence, menacing several import.
ant positions close to the coast.
The great Montenegrin stronghold,
Mount Lovcen, has fallen, according
to tonight's Austrian official commun'
ication. The attack here has been
largely assisted by Austrian warships
and guns OF Catlora forts. In addi.
ton, the Montenegrins said the Aus
TRANS maue abuuuanI use OF aspnyxs
iaLlng gases. A Dattle is raging on
the wuo4e northern and eastern iron.
tiers OF Montenegro. On the east the
MOnteuesrlns have been compelled to
evacuate berane.
British In Bad Straits.
For the BRUSH publlc, the latest
statement regarding the situation III
Messapolamla WILL not entirely re-
lieve the anxiety. 8#
The brlusn General Aylmer's col.
umn, which is advancing 10 the relief
OF kut-EI-Anara, has met and repuls'
ed a strong turkish torce, but its
present pusllloA IS Dy no means satls-
q
se Iurklsn army greatly superior
III uumDers. therefore, It is evl0eut
mat a successful juncture OF ths
Two briL.su 1otces, ailAousn they are
Lay ~ .Ailes LparT may Dfoys =
uIucult matter. s1-gs v
RUSSIAN advance Stopped.
There nave been no Iresn develop
mems On lue nusslan lrOnCs, Wnere
tne cold weather mas sci IA, tae tner-
lnoMeler touching ~ degrees below
zero. Inc Russians are reported "a
1oru1ylng positions recently won by
them. fs
AS far as the western front is con.
cerned, the center Of interest Is the
Champagne region. According to
French accounts there was clearly
nothing casual or ordinary about
the big German attack, which the
French claim they successfully stop
ped.
Paris claims that the French, by
vigorous counter attacks, expelled the
Germans from all except small sec.
tion of the trenches, which they had
won in Champagne.
Seize Parcel Post.
A dispatch to Reuters Telegram
company from Bergen says that 1856
bags of parcels post we're seized at
Kirkwall on board the Norwegian
steamer, Lyngenfjord. which sailed
from New York December "a for Ber.
gen.
Opposition DwindIes.
Opposition to the governments
compulsion bill dwindled to a mea-
gre handful in parliament today and
prediction in the lobby of the house
of commons tonight was that the vote
on second reading tomorrow will find
little more than 20 or 80 in opposi.
tion, as contrasted with 1O5 on tho
first reading.
The Irish nationalists today an.
nounced abandonment of their oppo.
sition in view of the fact that the
bill does not apply to Ireland. John
Redmond, the veteran home rule
leader, who made this announcement,
shared the most prominent position
in the days debate with his own en-
emy, Sir Edward Carson, who in a
fiery speech, declared that Ireland
ought to be included in the bill.
Wants to Include ireland.
Sir Edward rose to speak as soon
as Mr.. Redmond ceased.
II welcome the announcement
which has just been made,'' he said,
to Mr.. Redmond,s with.
drawal of the Irish nationalists' oppo-
sition, "but it would have been bet
ter if the honorable gentleman had
allowed Ireland to have been includ.
I'd. In my heart, believe that when
he hour Of victory comes, as 1t Ger
:ainly will come, we, who are Irish
men, will feel the deepest shame to
remember that we expected others to
make sacrifices from which we pro
7ided our own exclusion"
Reviewing the history Of the war,
Sir Edward Carson declared that lack
If men had been the chief reason for
he failure in the Dardanelles and
Serbian expeditions. "The fact ID.
le urged, 1--WE cannot win the war
without this bill"
Planes Attack Salonilel.
A dispatch to Reuters Telega@
from Sofia says:
"a squadron Of IL German aero.
planes on Friday dropped q bombs
N Saloniki, devoting special attea-
ion to the courts of the British ana
french legations, among which -
hts were scored, causing outhfeak9
Il hre. The German squadruu ~
urned without loss"