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Show II Allies Start Great Offensive Movement at Dardanelles; Violent Fighting in Progress ITEUTONS CAPTPIE 2,800 MORE SERBIANS MP MOT BIG GUNS Five Cannon, Four Machine Guns Taken in Field Novipizar Arsenal Captured Turkish Transport Sunk in Sea of Marmora With Loss of 500 Troops Serbians Win Important Victory Over Bulgarians Stop Headway of Invaders Italians Win Big Victory. Rome, Nov. 22, 10:40 a. m. Germany and Austria-Hungarjr Austria-Hungarjr are understood to be asking Rumania to preserve her neutrality and at the same time offering certain concessions to her if she will intervene in the war on the side of the central powers, according to information received here today from reliable sources. Rotterdam, Nov. 22, via London, 3:07 p. m. The Cologne Gazette reports that a great offensive movement has been initiated at the Dardanelles by the allies. Constantinople, Nov. 22, via London, 3:16 p. m. Vio- j ' Tent fighting in the vicinity of Seddul Bahr, on the tip of Gal- ij I lipoli peninsula, is reported by the war office today. The state- ment follows: "Artillery duels are in progress on the Darda- 1 nelles' front. .Violent fighting with bombs is taking place r near Seddul Bahr." 1 (5 j Londou. Nov. 22. 12:12 p, m. Slnlc- 3 of a Turkish transport which was y currying 500 soldiers across the sea !) of Marmora is reported in a message I from Zurich, forwarded from Amster-j Amster-j dam bv th Central News. The message mes-sage says the transport struck a mine and nearly all on board were drowned. Berlin, Nov 22 via London. The ; capture of more than 2.S00 Serbians I was announced by the Gorman war I'l office today Five cunnon and four I machine guns were taken in the field of operations, while, in the Novlpazar arsenal fifty large mortars and eight 1 cannon cf an old type were found. m. The tet of the official statement W on the Balkans is as follows w "Near Secanica in the Ibar valley, Serbian rear guards were repulsed. "An entrance to the Lab valley on both sides of P.adujev has been forced. ' "More than 2.800 prisoners were taken and also quantities of guns and munitions " I if Paris, Nov. 22, 2:40 p. m An offi- f ciaf communication issued by the Montenegrin army headquarters, was j given out here today by the Montene- grin consulate as follows: "Oijr Sanjak army was attacked on I November 20 along the entire front, v moro energetically on the Drina and i Lim rivers. Everywhere the enemy was repulsed. "On the other fronts there were r' artillery battles." I.;, : Paris, Nov. 22. 2:55 p. ra. The war ,' office this afternoon reports: "Nothing "Noth-ing of importance ocurred except grenade fighting in the Artois district dis-trict and patrol engagements in Lor-: Lor-: raine," Serbian Victory Confirmed. 1 Paris, Nov. 22. 12:45 p. m. The I report that the Serbians have w,on an Important victory over the Bulgarians near Leskovats, on the Nish-Saloniki railroad. 25 miles south of NIsh, is corroborated in a dispatch, received today from the Serbian minister at Athens. TJbe message says that after a battle of several days, in which the Bulgarians sustained enormous losses, the remnants of their army fled in disorder to the eastern bank of, the , Morava river. The victory Is regarded as a def-- def-- inite one, the message says, securing ' that part of the line from further at-, at-, tack from some time. Two Steamers Sunk. I Londo"n, Nov. 22, 12:35 p. m. Two ( more small British steamships, the ( Hallarashiro and Merganser, have k y been Bunk, but the crews were saved. ( !' New York, Nov. 22. The Italian . ' 6teamer Duca di Genova from New ' York November G for Naples and Genoa, has arrived safely at Genoa, I " the local agents said today. It be- longs to the company that owned the f Ancona. i - Liner Verona Safe. London, Nov. 22, 11:50 a, m. The I ' Italian liner Verona, from Italian ports 5 for New York, -which on Saturday re- t ported by wireless that she -was being pursued by a submarine and after-r after-r ' wards that she had eluded the under- IBea craft in a fog, is now safely out of I the Mediterranean. "Word was re's re-'s celved here that she passed through I i the Straits of Gibraltar today on her r "ft'eatern voyage. ; ( Turkish Transport Sunk. i t A Turkish transport struck a mine f lu the Bea of Marmora and sankwlth a t the Iosb of 500 troops on board, ac- I ' ' cording to news agency reports rc- , celved In London. 1 Important successes in their Btub- !0 ,born atruggle Tor Gorlzia Is an- ! nouned from Rome. Advances are also reported on the v Carso plateau. The reports that the Serbians have i i011 an -important victory over the i Bulgarians near Leskovats, is con-'irmed. con-'irmed. a Paris despatch states. The drive of the Teutonic allies in Serbia is nearing Mitrovitza, where the Serbian capital was removed after the Bulgarian invasion in the south Sained headway According to a Rome despatch, Germany Ger-many and Austria, while asking Rumania Ru-mania to maintain her neutrality are simultaneously offering certain concessions con-cessions if she enters the war on the side of the central powers. In the Dvlnsk region in Russia Field Marshal von Hindenburg's troops repulsed re-pulsed a Russian attack, apparently not made in strong force. Neither Berlin nor Paris report artillery activity on the Belgian-Franco Belgian-Franco front. Copenhagen hears that a large flotilla flo-tilla of British submarines from 10 to 25 of them recently passed into the Baltic. War at Standstill. Berlin, Nov. 22, via London. Little activity on either the Russian front or that in France and Belgium is reported re-ported by German army headquarters today. The official statement says: "In the western theater of war there have been no events of importance. The enemy artillery has shown a lively activity In the Champagne between be-tween the Meuse and the Moselle and also east of Luneville. "In the eastern war theater a weak Russian attack against the churchyard church-yard at Illoukst, northwest of Dvinsk, was repulsed Otherwise the situation Is unchanged." Review of War Situation. London, Nov. 22. 1:25 p. m. The rumors of last week that the entente allies had determined to compel Greece to repudiate all hints that she might interfere with the passage of allied al-lied troops across her territory have been substantiated by the Inauguration Inaugura-tion of a pacific blockade. This measure Is expected to elicit an immediate declaration from the Greek government clearly defining its intentions. Some dispatches from Athens go so far as to say this already has been attained as a result of Earl Kitchener's Kitchen-er's conference with King Constantino Constan-tino and that the earl received assurances as-surances of a satisfactory nature. The British government, however, has not Intimated that Greece has complied with the demands of the allies. Conflicting Emotions in Greece. Greece is described as a pre- of conflicting emotions fear of Germany, Ger-many, whose military successes have brought the Balkan war theatre near-ex, near-ex, and her natural sympathy for the cause of the allies dictating opposite paths out of her present difficult neutrality. neu-trality. Some Greek newspapers regard re-gard the blockade of Greece as a violation vio-lation of International law. For the time being, military operations opera-tions in Serbia have been almost suspended. sus-pended. This is regarded in England as an encouraging sign for the Serbians Ser-bians and their allies in view of the fact that a few days ago a Bulgarian advance from Prllcp to Monastir appeared ap-peared certain. |