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Show DU TURK TROOPS GO TO TIRACE Bulgarian Government Calls All Exempts of 1895 to 1904 Classes to Colors. Paris, Nov. 1, 4:25 a. m A Havas dispatch from Athens, filed yesterday, yester-day, says: "It is reported from Constantinople that the first division of Turkish reservists re-servists wliich has been engaged on tho Gallipoli peninsula has loft for Bulgarian Thrace. "The Bulgarian government has called to the colors all exempts of the classes from 1895 to 1304. "Operations in Serbia are developing develop-ing as expected. The present plan of the Germans and Bulgarians is to cut off towards the south tho Hue of retreat of the main Serbian army of tho north. The object of Serblnn headquarters is to conduct tho retreat re-treat in good order to the army's new lino of defenses It is believed In Greek military circles that while the position of the Serbian army is difficult, diffi-cult, it Is not desperate." Serb Situation Desperate. Rome, OcL 31, via Paris, Nov 1, 4:15 a. m, Colonel C. Acourt Reping-ton, Reping-ton, military correspondent of tho Loudon Times, declared in an interview inter-view given the Glornalc d'ltalia that the situation of Serbia is desperate. With her army completely isolated he said, its only chance of safety Is to retire to the Adriatic coast, outside out-side of its own territory. Once there Italy could supply either military help or provide provisions and munitions. The expedition of tho allies from Saloniki cannot arrive in Uino to save Serbia. Colonel Replngton assorted, assort-ed, while the Austro-Germans can be In Constantinople within a week. He believes, howevor, that whatever happens hap-pens in the Orient tho eventual exhaustion ex-haustion of Germany and Austria will enable the allies to win. no |