| Show ALLIES N HELP TO SERBIANS RAINS AND ROUGH ROADS IMPEDING THE MOVEMENT OF TROOPS AND GUNS germans have taken offensive south of riga capturing largi number of prisoners while there Is a lull in fighting in the wet west although there Is very heavy fighting at some points along the eastern front as well as in the west the aus tro german and bulgarian lava invasions of serbia and the elicits ot of the british and french generals to bring help to their little ally before it la Is too late continue to occupy the chief attention of the people of the belligerent countries the Ser serbians Serb 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 alow bilow over what hat answer tor for roads inthe balkan states the germans however claim to have taken the heights south of belgrade while along tle danube the army of general 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 geli while both the frenca and british continue to land troops at neither russian nor italian assistance has yet developed but the italians ians 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 0 indirect aid to serbia preventing as it does the movement of at any more austrians Aust lans rians troops from that frontier the germans have taken the offensive south of riga and forced the russians out ot of their positions capturing a large number of prisoners and some guns on the rest of the eastern front the offensive remains in the hands of the russians who are arc attacking west of dolnak in the center and to the south of the pripet river on the whole it appears to observers says a london dispatch as it 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 tall fall of 0 riga and would compel the russians to withdraw behind the avina river this ambition has allond ly cost thib the ger gense mazz u masy 7 thou hou sands of men but they keep on trying first in the north then in the south and then on the evinsk front at present their attacks are developing the greatest force in the north there Is somewhat of a lull in flanders and champagne on the western front probably the calm before another storm of shells activity tor for the moment has been transferred to lorraine where the french report the capture of 0 a trench north af leillon reillon Re illon lilon and to the where the germans have again withdrawn from hart manns which has changed hands many times |
