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Show I UNCEASING STREAM OF ALLIED I TROOPS ARRIVING AT SALONIKI Wtfk K Resource of Port and Railroad Taxed to Utmost Military 18 Operations to Be Pushed to Finish Bulgarians Report- H ed to Have Again Occupied Tetovo, 25 Miles West iML f ' Uskup French Hold Crest Dominating ffif Strumitsa Sector Large Bulgarian pf Forces Again Threaten Perlepe ml Russians Advancing in the North. W J Iff Berlin, Nov. 1 5, by wireless to Sayville. Announcement K was made today by the war office of the capture of 8,500 K$ Serbians with 1 2 cannon. .Of these 7,000 prisoners and seven Ijl cannon were taken by the Bulgarians. Pursuit of the Serbians m is being continued all along the front. H ParlB, Nor. 15. 2.35 p. m. The wi French, war office this afternoon gave 4 out a report on the progress of hostlli- 'i : ties in the east which reads: ;;' "During- the day of November 12 li we made progress to the north of tJlabrovo In the direction of Kosturino. Bulgarian troops delivered a violent H attack along tho entire front of "the left bank of the river Corna. They I -were driven hack with heavy losses." Infantry Firing Proceeds. Paris, Nov. 15, 2:35 p. m. Infantry firing has been going on without in f tcrruption In "the labyrinth," accord- ing to announcement made this after-it after-it noon by the French war office. Pre-' Pre-' vious reports that the losses of the Germans on November 14. were very f high have been confirmed. l The text of the communication fol- lows: j "In the Artois district at 'the laby-$ laby-$ rinth' the fighting between infantry j forces together with the hrowing of hand grenades continued without in terruption last night. It has been con- firmed that the losses of the enemy during the action of November 14 ij were very bavy. Grenade Attacks in Champagne. "In the Champagne district the Germans hare attacked with hand grenades the barriers erected in front 1 of our listening posts at Butte de Ta-W Ta-W hure. They were repulsed, it "In the Woevre. to the north of W Cirey, the explosion of one of our m mine's together with the very sustain-W sustain-W ed fire of our trench guns, overwhelm-fi overwhelm-fi ed the enemy and demolished his sap-Ill sap-Ill Ping works." Pj Antwerp Relief Kitchener's Plan. M$ London, Nov. 15. 3:40 p. m. Wlns-i Wlns-i ton Spencer Churchill who resigned K last week as chancellor of the Duchy Kf of Lancaster, said lu the house of kT commons today that tho project for Bf sending an armv to the relief of AnL-If AnL-If werp originated with Field Marshal H Kitchener and the French govern- monL Mr. Churchill made this state-Pi state-Pi ment In outlining the reasons for his Kf resignation from the cabinet and ex- Kf plaining his administration ui lug ..u- W& miralty. of which ho formerly was H first lord. Bf Germans Re-open Schools. IJl Berlin. Nov. 15, by wireless to Say-h Say-h ville. In consequence of the decision 11 of the German authorities at War-Is War-Is saw to permit re-opening of all Iff schools, Warsaw university has re-mm re-mm sumed its work. Iff New Zealand Restricts Men. Wil Wellington, New Zealarfd, Nov. 15, Wj via London, 11:57 a. m. A decree has Wl been Issued by the government prc- K viding that no males between the K ages of 18 and 45" will be permitted K heroafter to leave the country for K& destinations over seas without mlli- K tary permit. Hk Review of War Situation. H London, Nov. 15. Diplomatic repre- Kf sentatives of the allies at Athens un- H questionably are greatly alarmed at ML hints that If, the Franco-British troops K7 In Serbia attempt to fall back toward Mfi Salonikl the Greek authorities may Mi seek to disarm them. Intimations of K this nature have come from the pre- m" mler and minister of finance and the K assurances from Greek official m. sources of war that friendship and m benovolent neutrality do not carry complete conviction. Greek Critics' Forecast. Greek military critics express their i' belief that when tho railroad from t Belgrado to Sofia is in operation ? without danger of attack, the Austri- t ans and Germans will leave tho Mace- ', rionian campaign to the Bulgarians. :' They fall to explain, however, how ' the numerically inferior Bulgarian ? force is to make headway against tho ' Serbians and their FYanco-Brltish al- i lies. ' . The Bulgarians are imported again :' to have occupied Tetovo, which situ-f situ-f ated 25 miles west of Uskup. forms the extreme point of the wedge driven between the Serbian armies. This is r the only definite bit of news from II' the Near Eastern front, but it Ib 11 known tho French continue to ho d m the crest dominating the Kosturnio region -in the Strumitsa sector. ' Monastlh. in southwestern Serbia. K is showing renewed uneaslnoss on ac- count of the large Bulgarian forces m, which aro threatening Perlepc from wt the Babuna pass region. H Unceasing Stream of Troops Arriving. E Troops of the entente allies arrlv-hV arrlv-hV ing in an unceasing stream at Salon-IB Salon-IB lki tax tho resources of the port and B the railroad to the utmost. This Is m. accepted as an indication of the ln-M ln-M tention to push military operations H without regard to the diplomatic po-H&' po-H&' sitlon of Greece. Tho visit to Riga of Emperor Nich- K olas io taken here to mean things at K this end of the long Hussion battle K line are going very well for the era- K Peror's troops. They aro advancing WF ttothe west of Kemmcrn, which roll I' ' into their hands during tho recent push. Pctrograd military experts declare de-clare that the capture of Kemmern places tho German line from Libau to MItau in jeopardy and also brings a section of the Tukum-Mitau railroad within artillery range. Germans Near Mitau. The German lines are said to bo only ten miles in advance of Mitau, which city the Russians believe will soon be within the range of their artillery. Along the Italian front the fighting for Gorizia dominates tho situation. The Austrlans are said to bo feeling some anxiety for the fate of the city, the fall of which might be expected to have a decided effect on the Serbian Ser-bian campaign. In a statement in the house of commons com-mons outlining his reasons for retiring retir-ing from the British cabinet, Winston Spencer Churchill today aeclared that the project for sending a British force to the relief of Antwerp in October, 1914, originated with Earl Kitchener and the French government. Several thousand British in this expedition escaped across the border and were interned in Holland when the city fell. On the front in northern France the Germans announco the capture of a projecting French trench 300 yards long northeast of Ecurle. the new position posi-tion being consolidated with the German Ger-man lino at that point The Venizelos party in Greece, which favors the allied cause, may not take part in the coming elections, according accord-ing to a dispatch from Athens to Paris, as former Premier Venizelos thinks that even should the liberals win, they would be unable to carry through their program in the chamber. cham-ber. Definite decision is expected to be reached in a few days. 8,500 Serbians Captured. Capture or 8,500 Serbians is reported report-ed bv German headquarters in today's official statement. The Bulgarian forces operating In Serbia took 7 000 of these, together with seven cannon. The Serbians continue to be driven back all along the line, it is an nounced. Berlin claims a somewhat decided success for Gorman arms along the Styr river. General von Linslngen's troops have cleared the entire western bank of the river of Russians, it is declared. Russians Open New Offensive. Tho Russians appear to have begun an offensive movement In a new region, re-gion, the German war office reporting Russian attacks near Smorgon, east of Vilna, which were repulsed. In the latest official report by the Italian general staff progress for the Italians in tho fighting on the Isonzo front is claimed. German Submarines at Varna. Saloniki hears that German submarines subma-rines are using the Bulgarian harbor of Varna on tho Black sea as a base of operations. Varna has been mentioned men-tioned as one of the harbors where Russia would be likely to land troops for an Invasion of Bulgaria. Latest reports frpm Rome indicate that 208 persons were lost in tho sinking sink-ing of tho Italian liner Ancona by a submarine, 299 being saved out of a total of 507 on board. oo |
