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Show PROGRESS OF THE WAR. Once more Teutonic arms have achieved an important victory, this time by proxy. The Bulgarians have captured Xish, the second city of Serbia Ser-bia and the capital of the country from ago. Where the capital is at present is obscured in "rjrjubt. At first Monastir was mentioned and then cities of inconsiderable in-considerable size were reported to have been selected as the seat of government. It is probable that Moaastir, in the extreme ex-treme southwestern corner of Serbia, has been made at least temporarily tho capital. This city was saved from capture cap-ture by a narrow margin. The Bulgarians, Bul-garians, advancing from Veles, wheeled to the southwest through Izvor and proceeded down the mountain pass lead- ing into the valley near Monastir. j North of Perlepe, in the Babuna gorge, the Serbians, assisted by the French and English, made a desperate stand and after a battle lasting three da8 succeeded suc-ceeded in checking the enemy and throwing him back upon Veles. This victory for the allies would have had an excellent . effect in Greece had not the news of the fall of N'ish followed fol-lowed close on its heels. The capture of that stronghold by the Bulgarians may be of decisive importance or may3 be comparatively unimportant, according accord-ing to the circumr-tances. It means, of course, that within a short time the Serbians will have been swept off the Oriental railroad and that Germany and AUSUm T 111 U3 1" (luoniuu l-J plies freely to Constantinople- But it does not necessarily mean the destruction destruc-tion or capture of the Serbian army. A wide line of retreat is still open into Montenegro and the Serbians should be able, if they have supplies, to continue the fight for several weeks in the mountains moun-tains west of Nish. If the victory of the allies at Perlepe is as represented by them the efforts of the Bulgarians to close an iron ring around the Serbian army have failed and a large part, perhaps moat of K in Peter's forces, can retreat to Monahtir and its environs. This would place them on the left wing of the Kronen and English and thus the combined forces would present a uniform front a little north of tho Greek border. On the other oth-er hand, there are indications that tho Serbians are conducting a retreat toward to-ward the Montenegrin frontier with a great part of their army. It is higinticant that the rupture of N'isb has not yet compelled t he Ser-bians Ser-bians to give up the territory between Xish and the Austro-Gcrman force. They still hold this section of forty miles in the Morava valley, but must givfl it up shortly and retreat to the Bouthwestward, where the rugged mountain moun-tain parses will afford them ample opportunity op-portunity for further defense. This de fen-e, however, will not interfere with the finnan programme of opening com-rnu com-rnu ni'-at ions with ' ni.-tanti;tode and j supplying the Turkish army of 7U0,0ofi men. With the Oriental railroad at thuir ' command the Teutons will be able to add immensely to their military strength. Tho Hulgars and the Turks will reinforce the Germanic armies with 1,000,000 trained men. If, should not be difficult for Germany and Austria, to mipplv that number, lor tln-ir own vast losses leave them with equipment fur a bigger army than they have in the field. It has been said that the Austro-German Austro-German forces advancing into Be-rbia do not exceed 1 ."50,000 men, although they have enough artillery for an army of a million. To just what extent, the allien were unprepared is hemming more obvious every day. Although more than a month has passed sin eft the invasion of; Serbia began, the allies have not been able to placfl more than lOO.nOO men in Serbia, and these have been chiefly occupied oc-cupied with building def oiiHes and bringing up guns and supplies, although they have engaged in some battle and in conjunction with the Horbian have achieved, if reports from Athens bo true, a valuable victory at Perlepe. It, is announced that, Jvord Kitchener, who has not been at the war office for -everal flays, has gone on an important in if 41 on to the ne;i r caw I . As K itr honor iti Tint a diplomat, it is reasonable to as oirno that, his object, is to invesl igato the llalkan and Dardanelles situations and decide whether it will pay the allien to weaken their forc.es In France to fight decisi ve y on those fronts. If tho allies al-lies determine to abandon the cam prugim in tho PiMkans and on the Gab lipoli peninsula they will gain Hornft nd-va nd-va htn geq and mm ft'er some consider n hie di -advantagen. I " j r f. "f all they mud give up hope f opTiin the );irdanoll"i and get, ting supplied to b'm'.Hia, but thin dtr.nd varitai'e is not, fatal, inaernuch an Russia is Icing supplied from Vladivostok and Archangel. In tho nocood place tho allies must surrender Serbia and Montenegro Mon-tenegro to the Teutons. Moreover, they must expect the Turks and tho Teutons to send bigger armies against the Russians Rus-sians in trans-Caucasia, against the English at the Suez canal and in Mesopotamia. Meso-potamia. Tho chief advantage for the allies would .be that they could conduct a concentrated con-centrated offensive against tho Germans in France and would not be under the necessity of supplying perhaps a million men in the near east over a long line uf communication through the Mediterranean. Mediter-ranean. At fhe same time they would be ablo completely to dominate the Mediterranean and Aegean seas with their warships. Nor is it unreasonable to suppose that the allies might then be able to invade Germany by an expedition ex-pedition sent into the Baltic. The German Ger-man fleet is still in tho way, but the French and English navies, with the aid of the Russian navy, might bo able to take complete control of the Baltic and still have enough Bhips to dominate the North sea. Already the English are creating havoc in the Baltic with their submarines. A Baltic expedition, however, how-ever, is unlikely, as it presents tremendous tremen-dous difficulties with which the allies seem unprepared to cope. On the other fronts it cannot be said that the Teutons have fared well. Io Prune, thev f eca nt n red the hill uf Ta- hure. which tho French took from them ten days or two weeks ago, but the French still hold the city of Tahure. A number of German attacks have broken down before the French artillery fire, but it is equally true that several French attempts to advance have failed. In Italy the publicity bureau which has been bo efficient since the outbreak of the war, has been very thrilling in its descriptions of the wonderful offensive of-fensive of the Roman legions. As usual, the Italiam are about wheft they started. start-ed. And yet such a statement of their movements minimize what they have accomplished since the beginning of their attacks last May. As a matter of fact, the Italians have made more prog res than any of their allies, but like their allies they have failed to gain a decisive advantage at anv point. The Anstrians have conducted a strictly defensive de-fensive campaign and have (succeeded in preventing their fou from capturing any fortified point of crucial importance. impor-tance. The Italians continue to be fertile fer-tile in predictions, however, and every dav or two we r ad that the fall of Goritza or Trint is imminent. In Russia the loupes on both sides continue to b heavy. The German have been fighting desperately to at- take them into Riffi, but the Rus-iBn strategy has been excellent and when the Germans gumed at one point they loht at another and the see-paw has pre vented them from a'omplihing the object of their campaign in tho Balkan provinces. In trujeg:on south of the Pripet marshes Und iu tialicia the sce-ia.w sce-ia.w has boon of the fame character. The net result is that neither side has obtained ob-tained a strategic adantaue, u'nilc both aides ha e lot thousands of et fectivos. The German navy has sent more sub marines into the Mediterranean, be Having that results thre will he more fruitful than in the North eta.. Already Al-ready the.-e under sea warriors ha e punk an Italian and two Eren h ship?. They are making their way toward tue Aegean sea, where they hope to do much damage among the ships employed by the allies in landiisK at .abmii.i and in supplying the (ialhpoli pei.iu.iulu. Two German siibmanncs ha e in-M with disaster in t h lu-t week. A new one, launched only a few weeks ayo, hs been captured by the I.ngli.-h, and the V, 8, in distress, has been towed into a j Dutch port. The French submarine Tur- qnoe and fLXi English submarine have I been Bunii in the Dardanelles. Knt'lifh and French submarines are said to be Operating together in the Sea of .Mar-1 mora, but no infer mat ion us to what thev have accomplished recenMy has been t ort hcomi uu- |