St. John's Daily Star, 1915-08-27

              the st john's daily star newfoundland volume 1 friday august 27 1915 no 110 diplomats foregather in bulgaria the teutonic allies and the entente allies each represented by a big corps of agents at sofia where a great diplomatic battle is being waged both sides are anxious obtain bulgaria's help germany offers all sorts of induce ments to the bulgars to remain neu tral while allies offer attractive territory for help of their annies by uv.xry wood united press staff correspondent special correspondence of the st john's daily star cofta bulgaria aug 9—(by mail from the spick and span but none the less modest little balkan capital sofia has become the centre of the world's greatest lobby and the lob by for the greatest thing in the world victory in the present war by the vicissitudes of the present great european conflict and her pe culiar geographical position bulgaria has come more than any other to have a great influerfce on the destinies of europe - ' were bulgaria suddenly to join the allies and falling on the back of tur key capture constantinople from the rear the allies could at last pass the dardanelles and carry to russia the help in supplies and munitions that quickly turn the wl)©le current of the war in their favor delay allies victory if bulgaria continues neutral the pos sibility of the capture of constantin ople from the chatalja lines is remov r cd and the eventful passage of the dardanelles must be much delayed the meantime gcrmadfy is following up he successes agains^russia this at least is/ihe way the great european powers now involved view the situation and that is why the lobby is here in europe they dew not call it lobby ing it passes under the more polite name of diplomacy.xln reality how ever there is not a jnethod nor a tac tic known to the motet common or the most distinguished lobbyist at wash ington or any state capitol of america that is not being used to win over the various members bf the bulgarian cabinet the members of parliament the political leaders the heads of the army and even t|ie czar ferdinand the queen and the crown prince them f elves ordinary lobbying it may be that diplomacy and lobby ing are merely the european and the american terms fqs one and the same thing or it may be that the issue at stake is so great that the exalted and dignified diplomacy of europe has been rcctuced to the methods and prac tices of the vulgarest and most comm on of american lobbyists the lobby is naturally divided into two great camps that of germany and austria and turkey and that of it aly france britain russia and ser bia to the regularly accredited rep resentatives of these counaries there has been added a whole army of spec ial diplomatic and other agents every one of whom has been selected with an eye to his special qualifications ei ther lor winning over some special in dividual or for wielding some especial influence on the bulgarian govern ment as a whole both camps have now made more or less concrete propositions to bulgaria germany austria and turkey have told her that if she will remain neutral initiate campaign for conscription question of national service is very much to the fore in great britain just now and many of the in fluential british newspapers are strongly advocating its adoption argue that old system should be abandoned and say that needs of the situation demand the forced drafting of eligible men into the army—la borites undecided are to investi gate the situation in flanders i ondon aug 27.—the question of national service is daily becoming more acute from a controversial point of view and though certain papers have striven to disassociate it from politics the cleavage is on political lines ihc northc'.iffc organs are waging a strong national service campaign which is receiving mere moderately expressed support from ihe morning post the standard and the express while ihe telegraph leaves the subject alone arnold bennett in the daily news writes that the conscription campaign is in the hands of wrong people and the careful abstention from it of influ ential conservative personalities con stitutes the almost dramatic phenom enon that it is in the hands of people who by their inaptitude and vulgarity might be trusted to ruin rather than belter the cause president smillic of the miners fed eration one of the most powerful trades unions of britain interviewed by the manchester guardian declares his strong opposition to the abandon ment of the vo'untary system conclud ing with he stated intention of fight ing conscription inch by inch if it is attempted . with such diversified opinions the observer thinks it the imperative duty of ministers to insist that there shall be a restraint put on the discussion the labor party numbering a doz en parliamentary leaders will cross to flanders next week and probably their visit there will have an important in fluence upon their attitude in this res pect copes with submarines earl selboume assures visitors that fleejt are doing a great deal more to handle under-water boats than the public generally is aware london aug 26.—speaking to a deputation which called on him in london earl selbornc pres of the 3oard of agriculture stated that the navy had the submarine menace well in hand this statement lends color to recent unofficial reports to the effect that the british have of late months captured a very large number of these submarines and that many others have been sunk since the beginning of the war " keeping news mum british official reports however have accounted for but one german sub marine besides the one the destruction of which is announced today '• although there have been vague re fcrences to submarines being rammed or sunk by unarmed ships in the brit ish channel and in one instance £. reward offered by the admiralty fo sinking a submarine has been paid tc a merchantman there have been no official intimat'on as to what method offe'hsivc or defensive has been taken by the british navy against the submarines although the admir alty previously announced its satisfac tion with there measures submarine hunting returning americans have describ ed the new british sport of submarine hunting and have said that great num bers of small high-powered and very speedy motor boats mounting guns of mall calibre constantly scoured the coastal waters of britain for months there also has been repeated stories of an extensive system of submarine nels in the channel waters and even hat one submarine net extends entirely across the english channel with guard boats at the opening , " it is a notable fact that for nearly a yejir the franco-british naval trans port service across the channel by means of which hundreds of thousands of troops have been transported has been maintained without so far as is known a single troopship having been sunk by a submarine in these waters dawn came and defeat how two more hours of darkness would have brought success to the allies on gallipoli enabling them to cut the turk communica tions london aug 27.—0f the operat ions on gallipoli peninsula which arc now so important to the cause of the allies there is no further hews stories of wounded men who have arrived at alexandria tell how nearly the allies came to gaining a great suc cess in one of their attacks an australian officer declared that if the allied forces had had two more hours of darkness they could have covered the six hundred yards of ground which separated them from sari bahr generally known as hill 971 once this hill-was in the amies hands the officer declared the turk ish communications would have been cut it was for the possession of this hill the dominion troops fought so bravely but futilely except for the postponement or a statement by the greek premier as to the future policy of greece there is i nothing new in the balkan situation • travesty of all law london spectator expresses itself as unable to believe that the u s will consent to helpless passengers being forced by submarines to take to boats london aug 27—it is suggested that the american government will be satisfied if the commanders of german submarines always warn the passenger vessels and place their pas sengers in boats before sinking the yes scl says the spectator we do not believe for a moment that america would consent to this caricature of satisfying international law and humane customs imagine placing women and chil dren in small boats sixty miles from land in a high wintry sea and piercing cold and saying that their safety was provided for now we are sure that if germany means to prevent america from taking action of some kind she will have to change her policy huns take russ fort important russian position of brest litovsk falls into hands of the ger mans who now hold all except two small forts on this line aug 27.—brcst-litovsk the main russian fortress and con centration centre for the bug line of defences was occupied by the auitro germans today while the russians offered a stout resistance to the invaders during their approach to the fortress apparently they did not attempt to defend brest litovsk itself but evacuated it as they did ossowetz in conformity with their intention as indicated in despatches from petrograd yesterday to take up new positions farther east ; hold whole line the germans now are in possession of the whole line of railway from cholm to bialystok the russians hav ing already evacuated the latter city the lesser fortresses of grodno and olita are now the only strongly-de fended positions remaining in the hands of the russians both these are being approached by the germans and probably will be given up when they have fulfilled their purpose of facilitat ing the retreat of the russian armies the russians have not yet entered vant-bieloviezh forest which runs thirty miles north and south and has a width of from seventeen to thirty miles the forest is famous as a hunt ng centre and bison preserve south of it are the prepet marshes which protect the russian left with plenty of roads and three or four railroad lines it is expected here that grand duke nicholas will make good his retirement f grodno and vilna can hold out long enough and even though they should fall military observers say the grand duke would be well on his way to his positions before the germans could reach his flank there again the russians will make preparations for a stand but there are no indications yet where this attempt is to be made turko-bulgar agreement balkan representatives in washington hear this has been signed and bui garia is neutral washington aug 27 unofficial advices to representatives of the bal kan nations here say that bulgaria has signed an agreement with turkey which includes a provision that she re main neutral and that the attempt to reform the balkan league has failed mobilise greek army rome aug 26.—a report frorr athens says the general mobilization of the greek forces is believed im minent successes gained by allied airmen british aviator sinks a german sub marine off ostend and british ad miralty intimates that no general information is being given as to number of under-water boats sunk 150 french aviators raid german works at dillingen _____ , germans claim that they brought down four of the machines—lon don hears that british navy has destroyed large number of ger man submarines since beginning of the^war i london aug 27.—aircraft have again broken the monotony of west em warfare sixty-two french aero planes flew over the dillingen iror works near saarlouis dropping 15c bombs while a british aviator is re ported to have succeeded 1:1 droppmr a bomb upon and to have destroyer 1 a geitian submarine off ostend th german report says four french machnfies in the attack near saarlouis were irought down one of them how ever dfallinar behind the french lines f not telling all the admiralty report of the exploit of a british airman in sinking a ger man submarine significantly stated that it ha not been the practice of the admitolty to publish accounts regard ing tie losses of german submarines is important though there have been cases where the germans had no other source of information as to the time and p'acc at which these losses occur £ german sob c it had been reported for nkmihs that a large number of berman sub marines variously stated at from twenty to forty have been caught by the british navy but today's statement is the nily official admission that there were.others than those previously an nounced by the admiralty as having been destroyed the italians claim further miror successes on all their fronts but these are consistently denied by the aus trians > m * airman sinks submarine squadron commander biggsworth single-handed attracts under-wat er boat off ostend and sends her to bottom with bombs—gallipoli campaign aug 26.—the admirably announces that squadron com mander biggsworth r n destroyed single-handed a german submarine this morning by bombs dropped from an aeroplane ihc submarine was observed to be omplctely wrecked and sunk off ostend it is not the practice of the ad miralty to publish statements regard ag lcfeses by german submarines in he present case however the brilliant eat of squadron-commander biggs vorth was performed in the immediate neighborhood of a coast in the occupa ion of the enemy and the position of he sunken submarine has been located y a german destroyer official report london august 26 official squadron-commander biggsworth today destroyed a german submarine single-handed by bombs dropped from an aeroplane the submarine sank off ostend the following is the official state ment respecting the dardanelles operations since august 6th com r:scd two lines of attack the first rom the old anzac position ancf the econd from t!;c new landing at suvk bay severe fighting and heavy losses on ooth sides resulted ourobjectives arc not yet gained though the area held by us has greatly increased ridges attacked the anzac attack reached the sum mit of saribair and cananakbair ridge but as the suvla attack did not make the expected progress the actual cres is not held positions below the crest are effectively consolidated the ground gained enabled the suv la-anzac line to be connected upon a front of over twelve miles reliewec attack on the 21 st advanced the anzac front elsewhere being unable to occupy the summits we • withdrew to the ori ginal front no special news from the french 01 russian fronts the italian government report the capture of the head of strino valley to the ton ale zone bonar law german had fort plans u s secret service men arrest ger man reservist who had been spying on military positions at cape henry and fort monroe and making plans and photos thereof jjew york aug 27.—a washing ton despatch says that with photo graphs and topographical maps of fort monroe and the new fortifications un der construction at cape henry on hir person gustav kopsch a german re servist was arrested by the department of justice secret service last night and taken to the district jail on his fail ure to obtain 5,000 bail the chief of the bureau of investi gation said that while he had not had sufficient opportunity to study careful ly the papers and films found on kop sch when arrested he had identified photographs and films of fort monroe and of the new fort site at cape henry kopsch had been living at a board ing house here and had acquired r reputation among his fellow-boarders as being mysterious several boarders had been so worried by their suspici ons that they dropped them to the government officials and the arrest fol lowed london aug 26.—the swedish steamer disa has been sunk crew landed quite friendly new thank you washington announces u s and ger many on good terms washington aug 27.—future re lations between the united stales and germany arc regarded much more . hopefully here today than for many veeksjpast • ■ sir jtobcrt bond returned to wt.it by last evening's express promise to modify campaign washington delighted to report that the tensity of the relations between germany and the united states ov er the submarine disaster has been relieved no intention to murder americans on arabic berlin intimates that submarine com manders have been notified that in future no more merchantmen must be sunk on the high seas without warning washington alg 27—two im portant developments today in the relations between the united states and germany that further reduced the tensity of the situation were taken to foreshadow a declaration from berlin on the subject of submarine warfare v/hich would eliminate that source of discord between the two countries give warning in future count yon bernstorff german am bassador called upon secretary lan sing and informed him that the state ment presented tuesday by direction of the berlin foreign office saying that there was no intent to cause the loss of american lives when the white star liner arabic was destroyed was intended to imply that german submar ine commanders had been ordered to attack no more merchantmerit without warning on way to settlement ambassador gerard reporting from berlin the substance of a conference with foreign minister yon jagow con firmed the associated prfcss despatch early in the day that germany even before the sinking of the arabic had adopted a policy designed to settle completely the whole submarine pro blem the state department did not make public ambassador gerard's despatch but the optimism immediately reflected by the state department and white house was taken as convincing proof that the situation once threatening a break in the friendly relations between the two countries was on the way to a settlement welsh miners again strike london hears 10,000 of them have once more quit work london aug 27.—nearly ten thou sand miners struck today in south wales coal fields according to a des patch from newport wales continued on j 3 age 7 i » e____e___e3l____s i new 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