The Green Forest tribune., 1914-12-18
SERv|ANS RE.TAKE
 CITY IF BELGRADE NiSH REPORT DECLARES THAT INVADING AUSTRIANS HAVE
 BEEN DRIVEN OUT. MOSLEM CRUISER IS SUNK German Cruiser Dresden Seeks Ret, uge in Chilean Port-Vienna Re-
 ports Gains in West GaIicia.
MOSLEM CRUISER IS SUNK

London.-The Servians, after fierce battle, have reoccupied Bel grade, according to a Nish dispatch to Reuters Telegram Compny. The Austrians reoccupied Belgrade December 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 line south of Przemysl and Cracow, but nearer to the former, was announced by the Austrian General Staff in Vii enna 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 inf1ict upon the inhabitants bombardments similar to those suffered in Belgium and in northern France.
 More than 800 Polish towns have been ruined, according to correspond ents. Each army accuses the other of footing and cruelty. The flight of the civilians from Lodz was one of the most tragic episodes of the war, while one correspondent pictures the fate of Kalisz as repetition of Lou vain, with the slaughter of 400 civ ilians and the sacking of the city.
 The Turkish battleship Messudieh-- a 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. We are pursuing the enemy. All attacks along the rest of our battle front failed, as did the previous ones."
 We have brought our offensive in the Mlawa region in Northern Poland to a successful conclusion on the whole of the front" says a statement 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 downward stroke from Mlawa, on the East Prussian frontier, and which was reported in one dis pdICu HUH SIIOSIdu FIludy u Dc within 15 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 progress in the Argonne region and in Flanders. It is evident that the Germans, seeking t0 stop the ad- vance the allies are making in Elan ders, 2 ",pted an offensive in the vicinity Ypres and succeeded in taking oAe trench from the French. The latest French official communica- tion says the trench was recaptured. Elsewhere on the front there have been artillery duels with occasional infantry attacks by first one side and then the other.