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DESPERATE CONFLICTS
ARE WAGED IN EUROPE
POWERFUL ARMIES OF GERMANS.
AUSTRIaNs AND BULGARIANS
OVERCOMING THE SERBS.
ROYALTY ON BaTTLEFIELDS
Italians Are Gradually Weakening
Austrian Positions, While French
Are Desperately Fighting In
France-Russians Progress.
Latest War News From the Front.

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without portfolio in the British cabi-
net, in a statement m the house OF
lords has stated the belief Of the |
British government that the position |
of the Serbian armies is critical In |
his opinion, Serbia can not hold out |
for any great length of time against |
| the pressure of the Austro-Germans |
and the Bulgarians.
Lord Lansdowne placed the number
of British soldiers landed at saloniki
for the Serbian campaign at approx
mately $4,000. But he added that a
much stronger force is under orders.
and intimated that the government
would not be led into precipitate &C
ton because of some hurried impulse
or some vague sentiment to achieve
its object.
Notwithstanding the overwhelming
forces which have been attacking
them at many points. the Serbians are
displaying great gallantry, and against
their desperate resistance both Aus
tro-Germans and Bulgarians have
found 1t difficult to make Roadway.
At some points the Serbs, far from
giving up, have assumed the offensive
and have recaptured the towns OF
Velos, on the Nish-Salonik railway,
a short distance northwest of Krivo-
lok, which their French allies hold.
The Germans are claiming further
successes for their troops in North
west Russia and in the central sector
around Czartorysk, but Petrograd says
that in the northwest the German at
tacks were repulsed.
A big battle is still in progress in
the region of La Courtain, where the
: French and Germans are fighting for
possession of the German salient,
portion of which was captured by the
French and some parts of which we're
recaptured later by the Germans.
Rome reports further progress for
the Italian troops against the Aus
trians on various parts of the Austria
: Italian front, where the Italians are
: establishing themselves in newly gain
ed positions. The offensive here has
for its objective the capture of the
: Austrian fortress of Gorilla.
Two transports have met disaster in
Near Eastern waters-the British
transport Marquette and the Turkish
transport Carmen. The Marquette
was torpedoed in the Aegean sea and
ninety-nine of her crew are missing.
A British submarine sank the Carmen,
b which was laden with munitions, in
I the Sea of Marmora.
- King George and the prince OF
!, Wales and President Poincare OF
: France and Minister of War Millerand
have met on the western battle front
+: Uskup, a junction point of great
|. strategic value on the SalonikiNish
and Saloniki Milrovitza railroad, and
Kumanovo and Veles, have all been
> taken by the Bulgarians, while up In
D. the north the Germans and Austrians
d along the entire front are sending
:, their men forward against the Serbs
g who continue to make the invasion
" costly by their vigorous resistance
is Another crossing of the Danube has
been made by the Germans at Orsova
in Northeastern Serbia, near the Iron
w Gates of the Danube, where the river
o leaves Austrian soil.
:, The French in the vicinity OF the
a. Greek border have captured with small
. losses and are holding the village o.
40 Rabrovo, nine miles south OF Stru
mitsa.
The understanding at Salonih, &C
:, cording to news agency dlspatche'
:, from Athens, is that the lombard
,aent of the Bulgarian coast on TN
Ae,-ean sea is in connection with
~ nIan of the allies to make landing a
Port Lagos to the west of Deseagatcn
For almost the first time since tn
great Austro-German offensive move
ment began last May, Russia militar'
US officers now describe the situation
NC along the whole 675-mile front as sal
refractory to them. They assert tina
tho German drive at the Baltic por
- of Riga, possession of which would
of great strategic value to the lnVac
:. orc has been allied and the Russian
arc gaining ground along the norther
o. end of the line.
-, An important Russian success is r.
IN norted in the official statement fror
po,roorad in the region of Barant
,;ohi in the central portion of tn
las p,,.sian line. north of the Pripet rive
, ", where 1862 men and some guns "er
captured -,
The fact that Russian vessel pa
. ticipated in the bombardment OF tn
me me Bulgarian coast is attested by a nri
nti isb official statement and is weicome
sht in England as an incident which wi
OF d:spel the idea supposed to be held
Ina many Bulgars that they are nshu l
be- Serbia only and not their former all
Russian participation, however, na
given a stronger color to the recent r