Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-11-02

SERBS LOSE ARSENAL
French Gunncrs From Gallipoli
Have Reinforced Serbian Army in
the South

London, Nov. PA Bucharest dis
patch says it is reported in Official
naval quarters that the Russian:
have forced landing at Varna, or
the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria.
This dispatch followed an an
nouncement from Berlin that the
Germans had occupied Kraguyevatz
the arsenal town Serbia, while their
Bulgarian allies were pushing thell
way through the mountains to Nisf
Serbia's war capital.
From all sides the Germans, Aus
trians and Bulgarians are slowly clos
ing in on Serbian armies, the po-
sition of which grows graver daily.
They are fighting fierce!y, however
to save their country and have in
ficted such losses on Field Marshal
von Mackensen's force that ne has
been compelled to send for reinforce
ents and leave the more serious work
Of invading the eastern and south
ern part of the country to the Bull.
garians. who have had more expert
ence in mountain warfare, such as
the Serbian are waging.
From the junction of the Danube
and Timok rivers, in the northeast:
to Uskup. in the south, the Bulgarians
are moving westward, driving the
Serbians out of the towns into the
mountains. but from Uskup south
ward they have been checked, as the
Serbians in that territory nave bee:
reinforced by the French and British
with modern guns and with gunnerS
who gained valuable experience in
France and Galipol.
Bevond the forces landed at Salo-
niki. which German estimates place
at 10000 men, there is no news OF
further assistance being sent by the
Allies to Serbia.
There is evidence in dispatches
from Bucharest that the people OF
Roumania at least desire intervention
and that pressure is being brought
on the King and Cabinet to induce
them to join the Allies and permit
Russian force to pass through
Roumanian territory to attack Bull
garia from the East. Greece con-
tinues her friendly neutrality.
The Germans, having failed in two
months of almost incessant attacks
to reach Riga and Dvinsk by various
routes, are now trying along the rail.
way which skirts the shores Of the
Gulf of Riga from Tukum, and have
according to their reports, reached
a point west Of Schlok. This is a
very slight advance, and much low
ground. over which it is difficult tc
move, lies between them and t'eh
objective.
In the Dvinsk sector, both to the
west and southwest of that city, the
Russians have begun an offensive, ap.
parently in anticipation Of renewed
attacks by the Germans, and they are
also OF the move in the lake district
east of the Dvinsk-Vilna railway ant
in Volhynia and Galicia. The result
of these various battles has not yet
been disclosed. if indeed, they arc
concluded. Those at the southern enc
of the line are doubtless designed tc
prevent the Germans and Austrians
from sending reinforcements to Ser
bia.
In France the battle for the Butte
de Tahure, which the Germans re
captured from the French is still ir
progress without changing the posi-
tions of the two armies. These ha
been some fighting at other point,
in the west.
What the attacks on this front hav,
cost. is shown by a report issued h,
Field Marshal Sir John French. H,
says that the published lists of tn
German casualties disclosed tha
seven German battalions which tool
part in the Loos fghting-presuma
bly, a German counter attack-los
; so per cent, of their strength.