Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1915 — EUROPEAN WAR NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

EUROPEAN WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

; German and Portuguese troops are reported to fiave clashed in Portuguese West Africa. Berlin admits the situation is serious. The allies have advanced in tiie vicinity of Altkirche. That town now is being bombarded. The situation in Belgium and northern France has not changed materially in several weeks past, while in the east the reports are at variance. From Petrograd it is announced that the Russians have successfully repulsed the German attacks on the Bzura and Rawka rivers, while the Germans announce the capture by their forces of BorJimow, a strong Russian point of support, in which a thousand prisoners were taken and that to the east of the Rawka river the German attack is proceeding steadily. Newspaper dispatches forecast possible grave happenings in the Balkans. The revolutionary situation in Albania is said to have grown much worse, and it is declared that the efforts of the Christian Balkan states to secure the neutrality of Bulgaria apparently have hot met with complete success, and that Greece, Servia and Roumania are preparing for eventualities. Conscription may be enforced in Great Britian. This was intimated in a speech made by Thos. J. MacNamara, parliamentary secretary to the admiralty. Great Britian has notified the United States government that seized cargoes of turpentine and rosin and copper shipped before they were placed on the contraband list have been or will be paid for. No cargoes for Italy, it is announced, have been held up since December 4. Negotiations are in progress with a view to removing the embargo on rubber.