The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-12-19
.sERV|ANS RE.TAKE
CITY OF BELGRADE
Man REPORT DECLARES THAT
INVADING AUSTRIANS HAVE
BEEN DRIVEN OUT.
nosLEM CRUISER IS SUNK
German Cruiser Dresden Seeks Ref
uoe In Chilean Port-vienna Re-
ports Gains in West Galicia.

London.-The Servians, after
6erce battle, have reoccupied Bel
grade, according to a Nish dispatch
I to Reuters Telegram Compny.
The Austrians reoccupied Belgrade
December 2 after besieging it since
July 29, bombarding from batteries
near Zemlin and from monitors on
the Danube. A large portion of the
city is said to have been destroyed by
the fire of the Austrians.
The reoccupation by the Austrians
Of Dukla, an important point to the
north of the Carpathians on a line
south of Przemysl and Cracow, but
nearer to the former, was announced
b. the Austrian General Staff in vi
emma. The Austrians claim to have
captured 5000 Russians.
Poland is fast becoming another
Belgium in point of suffering while the
opposing armies drive each other
back and forth, occupy and reoccupy
cities and villages and infiict upon
the inhabitants bombardments similar
to those suffered in Belgium and in
northern France.
More than 500 Polish towns have
been ruined, according to correspond
ents. Each army accuses the other
Of looting and cruelty. The flight of
he civilians from Lodz was one of
: the most tragic episodes of the war,
while one correspondent pictures the
tate Of Kalisz as a repetition of Lou
vain, with the slaughter of 400 CIV
ilians and the sacking of the city.
s The Turkish battleship Messudieh-
vessel of 10000 tons-has been tor
pedoed by British submarine in the
Dardanelles. The British Admiralty
report issued Monday declares that
when last seen, the Messudieh was
sinking by the stern. She carried 600
men.
American Consul Latham at Punta
Arenas cabled the State Department
that the German cruiser had reached
that port safely and uninjured.
The south wing of the Russian
army in West Galicia was defeated at
Linarova yesterday and compelled to
retreat" an official communication is
sued Sunday at Vienna says. I'VE are
pursuing the enemy. All attacks
along the rest of our battle front
failed, as did the previous ones"
I'VE have brought our offensive in
the Mlawa region in Northern Poland
to q successful conclusion on the
whole of the 'front.'" says a statemen.
from the Russian General Staff, issued
In Petrograd Sunday.
Italy has reiterated her urgent de-
mand for satisfaction to the Sublime
Porte for the forcible removal of G.
A. Richardson, the British consul at
Hodeida, Arabia, from the Italian con-
sulate, where he had taken refuge and
for his immediate liberation.
OF the FIVE allied Austro-German
columns which for some days ap-
peared to be making steady progress
In their invasion of Poland, three have
suffered checks, according to Fridays
official report from Russian head
quarters. The column which was
|making a downward stroke from
dlawa, on the East Prussian frontier,
and which was reported in one dis
patch from Petrograd Friday to be
within Is miles of Warsaw, was re-
pulsed after an energetic offensive,
and under counter attacks from the
Russians was compelled to retire
In the west Both the French and
the Germans claim they have made
eSs<Zashe Argonne region and
" 1t is evident that the
B, seeking to stop the ad-
the allies are making in Flan-
5, at+"mpted an offensive in the
nifty Ypres and succeeded in
ng one trench from the French.
e-~.est French official communica-
~ trench was recaptured.
n the front there have
m3ry duels with occasional
EMacks by first one side and