Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-10-09
HEAVY LOSSES !.
REPORTE Ed N
SERBIAN DRIVE
Allied Forces Landed at Salonih
fastening to Assist Balkan
Ally.
FLEETS ARE ACTIVE
OFF BULGARIA
London Globe Terms English d.
plomacy as Ghastly 4.
Failure. .,

London, Oct. S.-Disaster to the Aus.
troJGermans have attended their in.
vasiOn Of Serbia, which was under
taken in an effort to reach the near
eastern seas and join hands with their
Turkish allies. '..n
The Serbians are engaged in hand
to hand combat with the invading
AustroGerman force and, according
to a Serbian official statement receiv-
ed here, have won at least tempor-
airy victory over tine advance guard
Of the TeutOnic force, which invaded
Serbian territory in an effort to reach
the near eastern seas and Join hancs
with thei Turkish allies.
AN official statement issued at
Nish and forwarded to the Serbian
legation here says the reutonic troops
which crossed the Danube after Bel
grade had been partly destroyed and
partly captured, and those wro enter
ed Serbian territory across the Save
have met with enormous losses.
Allies Head Northward.
Meanwhile the Anglo-French force
which WAS landed at SalCniki is MAX
AA3 I'D "dy uOl ClI"ul u, " dS0loL InO
Serbians and to protect Macedonia
from threatened Bulgarian invasion.
The landing of British and French
troors is proceeding, despite the
change in the Greek government. The
ministers of the Entente Powers at
Athens have asked Greece to define
her policy with regard to the Balkan
situation, but the new premier has
answered that he will be unable to do
this until a meeting of the cabinet
is held. Thele is, however, evidence
that Greece will maintain a policy Of
benevolent neutrality toward the al.
lies . ..t
Fleets Are Active.
Allied fleets are reported off .Bulga-
rian ports in the Aegean and Blach
seas, and in view Of tae possibility
of a Russian landing on the Black
seacoast of bulgaria, it is stated that
a Turkish army is being sent there SO
that the B'ulgars will not be called
upon to fight their OLD friends and
protectors. 49,
The German press suggests that
the Allies, despite the landing of
troops in iSaloniki are preparing fer
more energetic operations against
Turkey, in the nope Of smashing her
before Germanic assistance arrives,
and that Italy may take part in these
operations. ..g
Good Weather Ahead. ...
There still are three months of good
weather ahead for any new move
against the Dardanelles or operations
in other parts of the Aegean dis
trict.
la renewed offensive by tine Allies
on the western front has not yet ma
teriahzed and a. somewhat similar sit
uation seemingly has arisen on the
eastern front. With Pulands mud
again clogging the wheels of the ar
my, it is doubtful whether either side
of these will be able to make an i'm.
portant move for some weeks. For
winter, WITH partly frozen ground,
is expected to bring renewal OF the
offensive by one side or the other.
The Bulgarian minister to France
has been given his passports.
A GhastIy Failure.
Describing Great Britain's 'diplo-
matte failure" in the Balkans as
"ghastly," the Globe declares that
foreign relations of the country can
not safely be left in the hands of the
foreign Office as it is at present consti.
tuted.
''Its record" says the newspaper,
''has been a dismal, abject weakness.
NJ Sc n ,,,ic forfl1no that Sir. E1War ri
Grey speaks no language but his own.
1t is a greater misfortune tlat he has
been incapacitated through illjhealth..
Ut is the greatest of all tIlat his per.
manent under secretary, upon whom
he must depend, is from a German
mother and married to German wo-
man.
"If the failure is to ctllminate in dis.
aster the iNl-omen partnership must be
pndod "