Show ALLIES SS HELP ELP TO SEMIS HAINS AND ROUGH ROADS IM THE MOVEMENT OF TROOPS AND GUNS germans have taken offensive south of riga capturing large number of prisoners while cleere Is a lull in fighting in the west although there Is very heavy fighting at some points along the eastern front as aa well as in the west the aus tro german and bulgarian invasions of serbia and the efforts of the british and french generals to bring help to their little ally before it Is too late continue to occupy the chief attention of the people of the belligerent countries the serbians Serb Ser ians blans are being helped by the weather which Is cold and the rains have set in and are impeding the movement of troops and guns which at the best must be slow over what answer for roads in the balkan states tho the germans however claim to have taken the heights south of belgrade while along the danube the army of general yon von gallwitz is pushing the serbians Serb Ser ians blans back the bulgarians Bulga rians also lay claim to a rapid advance into macedonia although the french are already reported to be in contact with them at alev gell while both the frenchi and british continue to land troops at Sal neither russian nor italian assistance has yet developed but the italians have begun a more vigorous offensive along their frontier and have captured an important advanced point of the fortified riva group on lake garda this will be of indirect aid to serbia preventing as it does the movement ot of any more austrians Aust lans rians troops from that frontier the germans have chave taken the offensive south of riga and forced the russians out of their positions capturing a large number of prisoners and some guns on tle the rest of the eastern front the offensive remains in the hands of the russians who are attacking west of dysnak in the center and to the south of the pripet river on the whole it appears to observers says a london dispatch as if the germans were satisfied merely to hold their present line except in the north where they have made repeated at to take evinsk this would mean the fall of riga and would compel the russians to withdraw behind the ey dalna river this ambition has alread already y cost the germans many thousands of men but they keep on trying first in the north then in tife the south and then on the evinsk front at present their attacks are developing tile the greatest force in the north |