Show mm CHECK FORCES OFFER STRONG resistance TO GER MAN mari f TROOPS IN burr la plas ra not t yet decided to join in conflict dui but action in balkans expected to come coma without warning the sudden stiffening of 0 tho the aux irlan trian front at tho the eleventh elo hour to peck heck tho russian inva invasion slon bf hun pry as a natural sequence of tho the occupation cu ju of bukovina Duko Buk owina seems for tho the present to be tho the event of chief m mill III lary ary importance the seeta a to recognize this ind all recent bisp dispatches aiches from petro rad md have emphasized the austro german verman offensive in the heater gacond in importance perhaps are he the bussian russian movements near the east ad tad vest west prussian frontiers move agents of which the carman girman statement received by vir wireless eless takes cognizance although insisting that no new advances into german territory now are feared with great battles boon soon to be fought rought out at her front door roumania has not yet decided to join in the con but it Is patent that the situation in the balkans Is simmering and it Is believed action will come suddenly la in the western vestern theater there has been so little change that the british peR papers print the official communications with scant comment pre erring to feature sundays naval action the facts concerning this en lament are not given in detail and the has added nothing to the original announcement the swedish press Is showing renewed irritation against the british contraband policy and some me of the stockholm papers suggest reprisals by forbidding the transportation of goody goodw destined for graat britain over swedish rall railways ways one paper says the country should strengthen her defenses by means of which she would be able to command respect for her neutrality we could drive the germans back here liere it we chose to attack in force said s bluff officer ho accompanied the correspondents on a tour of the positions held by the french in lor mine but there be no object in doing this we should have to retreat unless advances were made at certain other points along our line jivery thousand yard trench is linked up with another and each division front with the others |