Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1915-11-10
ALLIES sill c: ling to Help" Serb a
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London, N v..7-The politica
crlsis in Greece, which has clouds,
the Balkans, has been fiji ally over
eoms. N. Skoutoudis having as
cepsed aud performed the task o.
organising a Cabinet which, beiu1
compoeed of all she members q
she Za'mls G.vsInmeAt with tn,
exception of the * Premier him
salt, will contlnue the Govern
msat's policy Of neutrality. The
new cabinet is at she mercy of the
Venizslos majority in the Cham.
Der. but ths impression is that nc
atsemps will bs made to turn l,
oai. thus avoiding dissolution Of
Parliament and u ,onsequens e!ec
zion, the result Of which could
not DO predicted while the army
remains moolllz.a. While the
Allies can now have little hope Of
Greek aid ii the defense of Sci bla
Ahs belief Is till held here that IT
40 not too late to turn the table.
Oh the invaders. The depa1tur.,
Tor the East OF Lord Kitchener ai
Ger conference in Par.s with Pre-.
miss Bfiand, General Gallieni,
the War Minister aud Genera
Joffre, she commander ID chief OF
the fsld forces, has given conf
dence that the campaign is to lie
carried Oh energetloally by the
man who knows the East better
than almost any one else.
Advices fir IN Saiouiki and 9th
or points today show that much
larger forces than were Thoughts
bs near the scene are being Landed
at Saloniki aud are proceeding s.
points whore it ls believed they
can do tas most good. Troop
trains Or ,,oontinually leaving Sal.
sniki but 50 much ssoretcy is bsing
maintained that it is impossible
70 compute the number of men.
Ono report says that an Anglo
Italian army has landed at Valona
(Avlona) on the Adriatic, with
the purpose of crossing Albania.
The Russians ara ssill concentrs-
ting III Bessarabia TO be prepared
10 make a decent on Bulgaria
from the East.
Meanwhile in northern and
eastern Serbia and on the Monte.
negr;n frontier, big battles are in
progress. The Aussro-a aermans
claim to- he advancing all along
ths line and to have reached the
Morava River which has been
crossed at some points. In their
advance they are picking up prls-
oners. guns and War material.
The Montenegrinz. like the +
Serbian Alice, are fighting stub.
bornly IN dsfenss Of their coun-
Try and report that they have re-
pulsed an attempt by the Austrl.
aus to cross their border from
Hsrzsgovlna and captured four
guns, q quantity Of supplies and a
few men. They also claim sue
cess over the Austrians in the
sapjak (Noviparar), whore they
captured four field guns and sew.
sral hundred men.
In the South the French are re-
ported to be over the Bulgarian
frontier, where they have taken
several villages.
It would appear, therefore, that
the Central Powers. who have Oh.
.aiued their initial objective, the
opening of the road to Sofa and
C,nstsntinople, have a lot CT
fighting ahead If Serbia is TO he
overwhelmed.
The weather. which has turned
wintry, has not lnterferred with
the Russian offensive along the
Eastern front. The Russians have
extended their attacks TO the dis
triot west of Riga and thence tc
ths south of Dvinsk. They are
keeping the Germans on the move
and the latter admit that IN the
region of Lake Sveuten the Rus
sians penetrated their lines.
The battles continue, although
neither side 10 making any mater
ial progress The Russians clam
TO have taken 5000 prisoners by 4
Ahrust across the Sbripa, while ths
Germans declare they have cap
aured 5000.
The Italians are pushing thell