The Ordway new era., 1914-12-11
Little Kingdom that Started
This Great War Cannot
Hold Out Further.
HEAVY FIGHTING IN RUSSIA
Austro- Germans at sattls-Llnss
Austro-osrmans Battle Lines
Ia Northern France arc
Comparatively ouiet.
(Summa,y Of Eveuks.)

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The end of Servia is in sight.
Reports from war headquarters
in southeastern Europe indicate
that the little mountain kingdom
which started the present conflict
is about to be wiped out. Servia
has fought Austria, her big north
ern neighbor, for centuries, try
ing to preserve her racial and ma
tional independence-but the end
is in sight.
Dispatches from London. Petrograd
and Vienna say that 100000 Of the
Servian army-one-third of her adult
male population-have been killed or
wounded since the war began. Be-
cause of the greater conflict else
where in Europe the campaign In the
southeast has gone along with scant
notice, but 1t has been q war of exter-
mipation. In the operations of Aus
tria against the Serbs In the last three
weeks, 10000 Serbs have been taken
prisoner. Ft
AustrianS Take Belgrade.
Belgrade. capital Of Servia until the
beginning Of the war, the city where
the first heavy fighting OF the war
occurred, has been occupied by the
Austrians. The Serbs held out four
months. then evacuated the place. r
Belgrade was frequently under bonn
bardment early in the war and but for
the general European conflict which
compelled Austria to send her troops
against Russia must have fallen an
easy prey to Servia's big neighbor. Ap-
parently Austria miscalculated the ma
tufe Of tho Servian opposition and only
after Bosnia was invaded did she send
. sufficient force against the Servians
to drive them back.
. Now they are being forced backward
and are eagerly looking for the ad-
vance OF the Russians into Hungary
to afford them re, lief. Russia has
been sending Cossack raiding parties
through the Carpathisns with the OBJ
ject Of diverting Austria's attention,
out the dual monarchy seemingly Is
determined to finish with Servia frst.
Warsaw 0sfe Again.
Russian Poland fs still the center
Of interest In the war situation 30 far
~ military operations are concerned.
Reports from the rival headquarters
indicate that any decisive result on
either side is still In the balance, al
though on the face Of the known facts
the conviction is growing that the
German general. Mackensen. has done
at Lodz what Bazaine in the Franco
Prussian war failed to do at Metz, he
has saved his army after 1t was en-
circled by the enemy.
Both Claim Success.
Official news from Poland continues
to be scanty, and. with both head
quarters claiming success. It is i'm
possible to say how the battle Is 60
ing. or its intensity. however. there
can be no doubt.
Germans Escape Trap.
A Berlin dispatch says that great
story of success for the German troops
has come to light in the fighting near
Lodz. The German forces were oper-
ating against the right flank and IN
the rear OF the Russians when they,
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SLAMS who pressed them hard, coming
from the east and south.
The German troops turned from the
Russians with whom they were en-.
gagged and fought very bitter three
day fight and broke through the Rus
sian ring -7s-
Z, Russians Capture Passes.
The Russian troops after fight
lasting ten days. captured. November
2s. the, Austrian positions which pro-
tected the passes In the Carpathians,
extending nifty versts (about thirty
three miles) from Koneozna. which is
situated north OF Bartfeld as far as
Schuzko, situated south Of Mezo La
borez. The Russians in this district
captured cannons. machine guns and
many prisoners.
Germans Renew the Attack.
The German artillery is still ham.
mering ut the allied line between
Ypres and Arras. Reports reaching
Paris say re-enforcements continued
to come up for the Germans in this sec
tion and the full quota or 100000 ad-
dittonal men is expected to be on the
firing line within the next few days.