Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-10-12
EXPECT ATTACK ON RAILWAY
JOINING NISH AND SAIONIEI

LONDON. October 11.-while the
Teutonic armies continue to advance
into Serbia, there is nothing to indi-
cate an actual military move by Bull
garia against Serbia, except a report
that an assault is momentarily cx-
pected on the railroad connecting Nish
and Saloniki.
Roumania is showing increasing
alarm on account of the threatened
military movement by Bulgaria and the
central powers in close proximity to
her frontiers. but neither Athens nor
Bucharest is exhibiting any readiness
to depart from n policy of benevolent
neutrality toward the triple entente
powers.
The only significant point in any of
the official reports of the fighting along
the major fronts to-day was the state
ment from Berlin that Field Marshal
Won Hindenburg has rcpulscd Russian
attacks on the Dvinsk front which
seemingly would indicate that for the
first time since the German drive
through Poland began the Austro-
Germans are making no big offensive
At any point along the whole eastern
front.
OF the lighting in the west the
French official communication says the
Germans left between 1000 and 5000
dead before the positions which they
tried in vain TO capture at Loos re-
Gently.
IMPORTANT MEETING
OF BRITISH PARLIAMENT
The meeting of the British Parlia-
ment tomorrow promises to be of un-
usual Importance. The Anglo French
loan Of $500, 200 obtained in the
United States will be discussed and
ratified.
The country will await with far
greater inter-at, however. for what
ever light Sir Edward Grey may throw
upon the Balkan developments, and
whether he or Premier Asquith will
reveal the Cabinets policy on the vital
alternative which confronts it, That
alternative Is whether Great Britain
and France will throw all the forces
they can command into the Balkan
Peninsula for the protection OF Serbia
and Greece against Teutonic- Bulgarian
aggression, or will let events there
take their course The military and
newspaper critics are agreed that one
or the other paths must be followed.
The influential Westminster Gazette
seconds the protest of the Times's mill
tary expert against submitting to Ger
man dictation in the initiative, saying:
"1f there is to be an expedition, it
must be on = sufficient scale, and we
must not weaken the west. The gov
ernment, in other words must have
clear idea of how to get new men in
addition to those on whom il had pre-
viously counted"
The attack on the Foreign ONCE and
Sir Edward Grey, the Foreign Minister,
promises to carry the country with it
as little as did the attack on Earl
Kitchener. Sir Edward Grey is tile
most popular civilian in the country.
The weakness of the British diplo-
matte service is no new discovery The
diplomatic staff is largely composed OF
the old school aristocracy. who are un-
able to deal with the shifting and com
plicated problems and elusive politi-
clans such as they encountered in the
Balkans The general disposition is
TO credit Sir Edward Grey with doing
as we'll as possible with the element,
at his disposal
Nevertheless, the diplomatic failure
in the balkans has given great impetus
to the movement to throw overheard
secret diplomacy and rebuild the staff
OF the diplomatic corps on ore
democratic basis. which will uu-
doubtedly be one OF the soremos, de-
mandS of the Liberal masses after the
war.