Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1915 — ITALY GIVES TURKS TILL JAN. 10 TO APOLOGIZE FOR ACT [ARTICLE]

ITALY GIVES TURKS TILL JAN. 10 TO APOLOGIZE FOR ACT

Hodeida Incident Causes Nation to Act. KAISER’S MEN CLAIM GAINS Germans Batter Lines of the Allies— French Report Disputes Progress, >' Insisting Attacks Were Repulsed. Rome, Jan. 8. —Italy has fixed January 10 as the time limit for Turkey to apologize formally for the Hodeida incident or suffer the consequences. Italy will not be satisfied unless the reparation Includes the release of the British consul who was seized in the Italian consulate, the punishment of the violators of the consulate, and a military salute to the flag. Unless this reparation is made relations of the two governments will become of the utmost delicacy. Paris, Jan. B.—The Germans appear to have assumed the offensive in the* region of Lasigny, in the Argonne, from La Four de Paris to Varennes, near Verdun, and bn the ridge that dominates Steinbach. These attacks, which are described as violent, have been repulsed, th& French official announcement says. The afternoon report announces thoj capture of a portion of the German first lino trenches in the Woevre district to the northwest of Fllrey. This advance derives its importance' from the fact that it indicates the French are making Inroads into the German triangular position, the apex of which rests on the right bank ofthe River Meuse, at St. Mlhlel. Germans Claim Progress. Berlin, Jan. B.—The German official communication on the progress of the war given out in Berlin reports that further advances have been made by the Germans in the western part of the Forest of Argonne arid that desperate fighting is going on to the north of Arras. French attacks in the eastern portion of the Argonne forest and to the west of Sennhelm (Oernay) in. Alsace, the statement says, were repulsed.

Austria Fears Invasion. Vienna, Jah. B.—-The Austro-Hunga-rian government believes that Grand Duke Nicholas, commander in chief of the Russian armies, contemplates a sweeping invasion with Vienna and Budapest as the objectives. The fears of the government were Indicated through orders for all young men not yet liable to military service, between the ages of sixteen and nineteen, to report at the two capitals. It is stated that these youths will be employed in constructing fortifications and intrenchments about the two principal cities.,of the dual empire. Further indication of the perturbation of the government Is evidenced by the requisitioning of great quantities of foodstuffs and fuel. Thus it Is indicated that the goygmment Is preparing as a last resorfTo withstand a siege of the two capitals by the Russian forces.