Show ALLIES NG HELP TO SERBIANS RAINS AND ROUGH ROADS IM THE MOVEMENT OF TROOPS AND GUNS german germans have taken Offen offensive sivi south of riga capturing largi large number of prisoners sonere while there la Is a lull in fighting in the wet west although there Is very heavy fighting at some points along the eastern front ae as well as lu in the west the austro german and bulgarian invasion invasions of serbia and the effort 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 01 tha the people of tue tae belligerent coun trite the serbian serbians a are being helped by the weather which ie to cold and the rain have set la in and aro ro impeding the movement of troops and gune guns at 1 the beat best must be slow low over what answer for roads in the balkan states the germans however claim to have taken the heights south of del grade while along the danube ft lil e 0 army of general ion on gallwits Is to pushing the Serb lani tans back the bulgarian bulgarians also lay claim to ft a rapid advance into al though the french are alre uly itly report ed to be lo 10 contact with term at alev gall call while both the frenca and brit ish continue to land troop troops at ilki neither russian nor italian assistance baa has yet developed but the iti it I lans fans have begun a more vigo vigorous roua of alone tasir frontier and ban havo captured an ad danced point of the fortified illya group on lake garda abl ill be of indirect aid to serbia preventing Ls it does the mo movement ement of any more Aust austrians rians troops from enat frontier the german germans have taken the offen often alve ave south of riga and forced the bus stana out of their positions capturing a large dumber number ot of prisoners and some S gi the rest of et the eastern front the offensive remains in the hands of the russians who are attacking west of Drina Drin sic tc in the center and to the south of the pripet river on the whole it appears lo 10 era says a london dispatch as if it the germans were satisfied merely to hold their cresent line except in the north where they have made repented at to take dansk this would mean the fall of ilga and would tim pel the Rus to withdraw behind the daina river thi this ambition has already cost the germans many thou sands of men but they keep on iry try ing fl st in the north then thea iv lit the south and then ol 01 a tho the delask front at present their attacks arc are develop ins inc the greatest force in the north |