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Show GERMANS BEGISf f BALKAN DHl OPENING OF ACTIVITIES BRlNr.c BALKAN STATES TO Poiir WHERE THEY MUST DECIDe' Russians Meet Defeat at Hand; t( Von Buelow, Who Has Won Battle in Vicinity of Kubisko, Tak- ' ing 2,000 Prisoners. London. Shells from Gwrn-jn z -. ; are bursting in the ruins of ! as an army of between 3i)0," n t- ! 400,000 Austro-Germans, cone-Mi-:.-'.' along the Serbian border fro.n 0-- near the Roumanian frontier, to lin, is preparing to cut its way ihro . to Turkey. With the opening of the Teuton kan drive, Roumania and Greeir- c., brought to a point where t'.iey , have to declare either for the pc; of the quadruple entente or for central empires and their a!-.-, ; . sultan. Reports that th.e Germans ami ; . 8 trians had mobilized forces eniRiv r from 300,000 to 400,000 men along 3 Serbian frontier preparatory to a c. paign to crush the Serbians and o;-- a way for' the shipment of nuiri:;;;-. ' to Turkey, have been received ' various sources in the past S There have been several clash'; r J tween the Serbs and Austrians on -;. j frontier iff the past few da'.s. Belgrade was occupied by the a -trians after a siege on Decern: e: . j 1914, but was reoccupied by the S ; bian twelve days later, ioIIm: , j fierce battle. The recapture of capital by the Serbs was follo.vod ; , a campaign which cleared th-ir oo:; , try of invaders. Until a few day: , the Anstrains made no furtl.-r tempt to crush their small i:e:s.. ::. ( and the intervening time has h--n . cupied by the ' Serbians ia reo:g;: ;-ing ;-ing their forces. Having recovered from t'.. r..t ; ; inflicted on him early the in --). .. . the Russians, Von Buelow, cor. t.-.: ing that portion of the army o: V:; Hindenburg operating to the the river Dvinsk, again has uv-n offensive and, according to the : ' report published by Berlin, has : ,:T: the Russians in a battle in t'.: : .:-ty .:-ty of Kubisko, and pushed th'x '.a in a northeasterly direction, uh more than 2,000 prisoners. |