Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 191, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1915 — ITALY AND TURKEY ON VERGE OF WAR [ARTICLE]

ITALY AND TURKEY ON VERGE OF WAR

Prospects of An Early Declaration of War By’ Italy On Turkey—Russ Are Still Retreating. The prospects of an early declaration of war by Italy on Turkey loomed larger Thursday night when unofficial reports stated that all Italian consuls had been recalled from Turkish territory. „ This news comes to this country through a Paris paper which in turn quotes a Vienna paper. The significance of an Italian-Turk-ish break just now is very great in the minds of British military critics, who see in the Italian navy and land forces an aid of inestimable value to the allied forces operating in the Dardanelles. It has been konwn for some time that the Turkish-Italian relations were at the breaking point, and the main question remaining has been merely which would take the initiative in declaring hostilities. The situation in the eastern theatre of war remains practically the same, the Germans continuing their steady pressing back of the Russians. The capture of Knovo, the important Russian town in the Dvina region, for the possession of which the Germans have sacrificed many lives, has been announced officially in the German communication issued at Berlin Thursday. In addition it is asserted that the Germans continue their advances along the entire eastern front, discrediting the reports of Russian successes in the north. These Russian victories, if such they may be called, appear now only to have been local successes, for it is apparent that the main German advance has not been checked, and that the two arms of the German triangle is steadily closing in upon the Russians, threatening to make their prepared positions in the rear of Warsaw untenable.