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Show SERBIANS ' MAY MAKE ' STAND IT KDSSOVO i It Was Upon This Historic His-toric Plain, East of the ' Montenegrin Frontier, Where They Lost Their i Independence More j Than 500 Years Ago. ! GREECE'S ANSWER STILL AWAITED j Charge Is Made From Berlin That Many Indian In-dian Soldiers Have ' Been Executed Be-, i cause They Refused to ; March Against Bagdad, j ' i ; LONDON, Nov. 19, 10 p. m. The po- i sition of the Serbian army and the at- i titude of Greece toward the entente j powers are still the outstanding quea- j Uods of interest in Europe. R-eliable ! information on both situations is so ! -meager that the public is unable to; ! ', judge what changes, if aJiy, have taken 1 place. ; It "is thought possible that the Ser-! bians will make a stand on the historic!; I plain of Kossovo, east of the Montene-' j i grin frontier, where more than 50Q 1 i ' : years ago they lost their independence! i ; ! to Turkey. They must either do thisj ! ! or retire into the mountains of Montene- , ' ! , I gro or. northern Albania, where, al- i though they, would be nearer help from : j ' the Adriatic, it would be difficult to, ' ; : keep , them supplied, owing to the ab-1 ; , sence of roads. 1 : ; 1 m The Austro-Gerinans on the north are !i ! ! now within thirty miles of the Mitro I': ! vitza-Pristina line of the Serbians. '. 1 I while the Bulgarians in the south art said already to have passed Monastir. i As to the position of Greece, there j have .been no developments, although s: i more hopeful feeling prevails in Parie and London since Denys Cochin 'b visit i to King CoDstantine and the Greek min- isters. ' 1 There have been lively artillery enp j' gagemeuts in Alsace and at some othej !' points on the west. In the east the j ' Germans report there is no change ir 1 the situation, while Petrograd claimec i repulses of the Germans on the Dvins 1 and Styr rivers. The Italians are still hammering awaj ; at the Austrian positions on the Isonzo j: but while they are gaining a little frorr. ! .day to day, they have not yet suo,; ceeded in the capture of Gorizia, which has agaiu been under heavy shell fir; I" for several days. 1 1 INDIAN TROOPS jt REFUSE TO MARCH ' ' AGAINST BAGDAL !' BERLIN, Nov. 19, by wireless to Say-ville. Say-ville. The British advance against Bag- '. dad has been checked south of Kut, li !; , ; Mesopotamia, by a mutiny of Lndiai !, j troops, who refused to march f uxthei ' . ! ! against Bagdad, because of the presenc i In that city of objects sacred to their re-, 1 llgion, according to a Frankfurter Zelt-!j ung dispatch from Constantinople, thJ Overseas News agency says. j "The British executed every tenth Indian In-dian soldier of several battalions," th quoted dispatch says, "but the Indian: openly refused to march against Sulmaii; i Fak and Bugdad, where several holi : ' images are buried. "The general situation In Mesopota mia is decidedly less advantageous to th' British than recently, as their advanci i against Bagdad has been stopped soutl i of Kut, which Is 105 miles southeast o 1 , 1 Bagdad. ' ; ' "The Shiite clergy continue their agl I tation for a holy war in southern Per sia and Schat-ei-Arab, and importau events are said to be impending." i Reprisals Are Threatened. 'j WASHINGTON, Nov. IP, by wireless tij: Tuckerton. Advices from Vienna to th--: , Cologne Gazette, says the Overseas New!; agency, report that the Austro-Hungarl ( an government threatens to take reprls-' ; a!s asninst the Serbians because of th. ( horrible. trout mont being accorded t't 1 Austro-Hungnrlan prisoners. ? j 1 "Wounded and sick officers and sol - tCoutinueu on Page Two.), 1 ' SERBIANS il STAND IT KDSSOVO (Continued from Page OneO iJiers are be Ins: transporter through the .-ountrv in rat lie vars. the dispatches nty. In one town many r-rifonrs who could ha"e been savpd died pimply because the phvsiclans did not take fare of thpm. Snine prisoners were forced to work in the ammunition factories. Others were ,robl"d of their uniform p. "The retreating Serbian army is now said to be leaving behind it mutilated prisoner?. Horrible scenes are described i by liberated foldiers." BULGARIANS ARE DEFEATED WITH HEAVY LOSSES PARIS. Nov. 13. 10:15 p. m. The war office communication issued tonight sava: '"There is nothing to add to the previous pre-vious rom muni cat) on. "Armv of the Orient: Quiet prevails on our front, except in the rion of Strumitza. where the Bulgarians attacked at-tacked us. They were repuL-ir-d. after having sustained serious Ioimf-s." The communication of the Belgian war offb-e says: "Tiiere h-as been a sliplit bombardment nf our advanced posts a Tid of tiie Pervyse region. Our- artillery replied to the German Ger-man batteries and brought about the dispersal dis-persal of the enemy workers. "A t several point s before our fronts durins the two previous niKhts our aviators avi-ators have srifdlf the German encampment? encamp-ment? at lessen (south of iJixmude;." OBJECTION MADE TO ACTIONS OF ALLIED FORCES BERLIN. Nov. lft, by wireless to Tni'lt-erton, Tni'lt-erton, N. J. --"According to advices fro:n Constantinople to the Frankfurter r-it-nnz," says i he Overseas Ntwa agency, "serious 'measures aro bpin '-onsidei-wj in Athens in connection with the existing situation. It is declared that the British Brit-ish and French are behaving at Salonlki as If that port were 1 heir property and that insinuations have been made regm-d-inK the overthrow of tbe dyrasty. "It is noted that a corp of gendarmrs staliorir-d In New Greece, a IkH y lornu-d pri n' i pally of rela ns, has bfren openly asitai ing in favor of former Premier Venizrdos. "It is polnrd out that a state of slr.gr; can be proclaimed in all Greece, without the a'tlon of parliament, if a sufficient emergenry ares." GERMANS FOILED IN ATTEMPT TO CROSS THE DVINA I PKTF'.OGrO ("', Nov. If', via ly.ndnri. 10:S6 p. m. The foliowing off!"ial state-merit state-merit whs issued toni-'l'it: "On 'he western f ku.sslfi n fiord, northwest north-west of FriedrlriiHtadt, German ai tempts to erofcs tf. our td of I lie I vina river failer. The eneniy every where was compelled com-pelled to re'ire by our fire. "On The left bf) nk of t be St yr rl'- r. i.er the station of fzartorynk, the enemy atternpfr-r, uTiKUcenjfully, to teeh ttie rivr. Near tiie village of f'v.n. ri or ysk our troops retired to 'be right hank of the Htyr, well covered by our artillery flrn, which pre ven t ed the enemy from ma king an attack. Further up on the Htyr. near t he '.ilia sre, of Novoe Ik I, tbe enemy several times opened fire on the bank of the river held by us." VENICE IS AGAIN BOMBARDED BY THE AUSTRIANS ! VIKNNA, Nov. If via. London. II ft. m. Venire has again Kern bombarded by Austrian aeroplane. " iff tela I annouri'-e-fnetit was made- bero today Dial an aetlal ; nq i in droit a 1 1 rij'ked mHit ar y ta i.l i di- ! men's of that ety w-sterday afletnoon. ! Tlif u nrif.u r ' -c f tier 1 1 Ttiifw: ",V;p w bead.j i in r I ers an tiou fici-h thai on the a 1 1 erno'.ri ( XhmmhIkt IK one of our peapbiie s-juad rntis dropned IminhH on the fort-i nl Han Nl'-'jla and Alberonl and the a r Fie n a 1 aviation station, ga h works, ra d -way station aui several b;irra'lH al Venbe. " Not vi t hst and i ng' t j ie Jiea vy fl re of a nt I -;i 1 t'-ra ft guns a nd the :i 1 1 a 'i( n of three hostile aeroi'la ne. our H'uadifn returned . vHli eompleN- Hfely." |
