Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-02
British and French Trans
ports Appear OFF Kav-
ala, Sofia Reports.
LAND FROM GALLIP0ll
Move From War on PENN
sula Is Seen by Ber-
lin Officials.

Amsterdam, Nov "A new Anglo
French expedition to the Balkans is
announced by the Berlin Tageblatt.
This newspaper publishes telegram
from Sofia, stating that British and
French transports. with troops have
arrived Off Kavaia. Greece,
kayala is on the north coast of the
Aegean Sea in Greece about twenty
miles west of the Bulgarian border. II
is so miles northeast of the Greek port
OF Saionih, where the first detaeh-
ments of British and French troops
were landed for the Serbian campaign.
kavala is the nearest Greek port to
the Gallipoli peninsula. and might be
selected as the landing place in case
French and British troops were with
drawn from the peninsula for service
against Bulgaria A Berlin dispatch
yesterday said troops now on the Serb
ian front, brought in by way of Sa-
loniki, had been sent from the penin-
sula.
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Paris. Nov. 1.-The following state
ment from the Montenegrin war Office,
under today's date, was received here
/ this afternoon
I "0n Oct. 81 lighting continued south
of Vishegrad. Bosnia. An energetic at
! tack of the enemy was couutered sue
( cessfully
! "On the remainder of the front we
have kept up constant fire on the
eHemys positions At Hagora We cap
tured 100 men, Of whom one was an Of
/ fcer four guns and one rapid frer.
The Austrians left about four hundred
( dead or wounded on the ground. as
we'll as artillery ammunition"
Paris Nov 2-Repulse of the Aus
Itro-German forces in the center of the
northern line with great losses is re-
ported in an official Serbian communi-
cation received here today 1t follows:
ON Oct. %. on the northwestern
front. the enemy attacked in force on
the river hank of the Penitza and with
/ less strength on the right bank of the
Morava
/ In the center the enemy was thrown
back with great losses after having
approached within 500 metres of the
Serbian positions On the remainder
of the front there we're severe engage
ments.
"On the eastern bulgarian front
there was no important change south
of Moroya Toward Prot fighting is
continuous, as is also the case to the
west Of Zaiecar.'
Germans Gain in Riga.
Berlin. Nov. 2.-The German advance
on Riga from the west has made fur
Their progress. the war office announced
today
In the Dvinsk region fierce fighting
is under way The Russians. under
taking a strong offensive movement.
were repulsed with heavy losses.
The announcement follows:
Army Of Field Marshal Won Hinder
burg South OF the Tukum and Riga
railway our attack made further pro-
gress on both sides of the river.
Before Dvinsk fierce fighting con-
tinued yesterday Strong Russian at
lacks were repulsed with severe losses.
The battles between Swenton and Ilsen
Lakes are still proceeding. Five hun
dred prisoners fell into our hands.
Russians Driven Back.
Army group of Prince Leopold; The
Russians attempted 10 halt our adj
vance west OF Czartorysk by counter
attack Oh wide front with dense
masses of troops. They were driven
back with heavy losses. Our attack
continues.
AT Sienikowce the Russians succeed
ed in temporarily penetrating posi-
tons held by the troops OF General won
Bothmer. We recaptured our trenches
/ by q counter attack and took more than.
six hundred prisoners The village OF
Sienikowce itself was for the greater
/ part recaptured by storm early this
morning after bitter fighting during
the night and 1000 more prisoners
were taken"
4 The announcement concerning the
western front follows
Apart from strong artillery surprise
! attacks on Butte de Tahure and lively
artillery battles on the front between
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