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Show ARMIES OF SERBIA SLIP OUT OF TRAP REMNANTS OF SERBIAN FORCES FALLING BACK INTO ALBANIA AND MONTENEGRO. Italy Reported to Have Gone to Aid of Serbians, Landing Force at Av-lona, Av-lona, Because of Antagonism Toward Bulgaria. London. Italy has gone to the aid of Serbia, according to reliable information infor-mation reaching here. An expeditionary expedition-ary force already is reported landing at Avlona, Albania. Bulgaria's ambitions ambi-tions in Albania, it is believed, have led the Rome government to act. The remnants of the Serbian northern north-ern army apparently have escaped the trap set by the invaders and are falling fall-ing back into Albania and Montenegro. Montene-gro. Only a small strip of their country coun-try remains in their hands. The Aus-tro-German and Bulgarian campaign in the north is practically completed. They are now fighting minor actions with the defeated Serbians southwest of the Sienica, General Boyovitch, the Serbian leader, declares his armies will still be able to harrass the invaders invad-ers but the Bulgarian general Boyad-jioff, Boyad-jioff, asserts that they are practically qut of action. The main German and Austrian forces are being hurriedly transported to the south to attack the French and British, it is believed. The French have won a victory of some proportions propor-tions west of Krivolak, a Saloniki message mes-sage states, capturing the town of Brousnik. The occupation of this place protects Krivolak from artillery fire. Events are expected to develop rapidly rap-idly in Roumania. The presence of the great Russian armies near the frontier, it is believed, will offset the representations of Germany at Bucharest. Bucha-rest. Conferences are now going on, it is reported, between members of the Russian and Roumanian governments, looking to Roumania's consent to the passage of Russian troops across her territory. Reports that Czar Nicholas has promised aid to Serbia within a week persist, and the great activity at Odessa, the base for the Russian armies drawn up along Roumania's frontier, lends color to those reports The only other explanation is that Russia fears a Roumanian attack with German aid on Bessarabia and her southeastern provinces. |