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Show IlMllI HEAVY TRAMS ! Taking Advantage of Russ Situation, Enormous Forces Being Sent Into Flanders. SUSPICIOUS FRANKNESS All Roads Leading to Belgian Front Lined With Troops and Artillery. COPENHAGEN, Nov. 20. Reports from several sources in Germany bear out the assumption that, taking advantage advan-tage of the situation In Russia, the German Ger-man government is making heavy transfers of troops from the Russian front. Only part of them appear to be going to Italy, where the front Is too narrow to permit of the use of great masses, and a blow by von Hindenburg at somo other point In the way of a diversion, may perhaps bo expected. Some troops are reported to have been moved to the western front but this not necessarily significant as Field Marshal Haig's pounding tactics necessitate neces-sitate frequent reliefs for exhausted German divisions. German newspapers discuss with suspicious frankness and avidity the prospect of an offensive on the Salonika Salon-ika front but have never a word to say about the obvious chance of a smashing smash-ing blow at Rumania in effort to end the resistance of that nation. As for Italy, If the Austrians and Germans find the reinforced Italian army too hard a nut to attempt to crack, the ' central powers can easily and quickly change to the defensive on a strong line for the purpose of seeking to force a decision on some other selected front with the bulk of their strategic reserve. German Bring Troops to Flanders. LONDON, Nov. 20. A telegram from Maestrlcht, Holland, to Amsterdam as forwarded by the Central News reports a great movement of troops with artillery artil-lery on all roads leading to the Flan-Jders Flan-Jders front. These troops evidently are, from the Russian front, the dispatch !says. I 00 |