Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-11-20
INrIMArEs THAT TROOPS SEEK
ING REFUGE IN THAT COUNTRY
WILL BE DISARMEO.
FIGHTING ON ALL FRONTS
Churchill, Formerly Admiralty Lord
of British Navy. Refuses TO Accept
Responsibility for War
Blunders, Etc.
Latest News From the War Fronts.

e eminent that any allied troops seek
{ ing refuge in Greek territory will bt
disarmed has been the cause of con
@ siderable anxiety to the entente pow
t ers and consequently Field Marsha
Kitchener's Near East visit gains add
ed importance.
, Belated dispatches from Athens say
that Greece bases her decision on in
ternational law, while the entente
ministers contend that the right &C.
corded troops to enter the country
through Saloniki permits them to re-
tire by the same route, should it be-
come necessary for them to do so.
The ministers are demanding that
Greece unequivocally define the atti-
tude she will observe should such an
eventuality present itself.
Winston Spencer Churchill. who has
been the most severely criticised mem
Der of the English government and
who has been held personally respon-
sible for the loss of Rear Admiral Sir
Christopher Cradock's fleet in the Pa
cific, the destruction by submarines
OF the British cruisers Cressy, Hogue
and Aboukir, the Inflated Antwerp ex-
petition and the initiation of the naval
attack on the Dardanelles, delivered
speech in his own defense in the house
OF commons Monday, following the
resignation of his post in the cabinet.
won't have it said" was his dra-
matte assertion, referring to the Oar
danelles attack, that this was civil
ian plan foisted by political amateur
upon reluctant officers and experts"
And this sums up his reoy to all
his critics.
The Serbians are falling back from
mountain range to mountain range
before the advance of the Austro-Ger-
man forces, whose official reports
enumerate the capture of a thousand
or more prisoners daily. a few guns
and quantities of stores. The Ser
bians are fighting continuously, how.
ever, and are inflicting considerable i
losses on their pursuers.
Along the eastern front the Ser.
oians appear to be holding their own |
against the Bulgarians, and are max
Ing a stand on the western bank of |
the Morava river. So stubborn has |
been their resistance the Bulgarians
have had to call for assistance from
the Austro-German artillery in their
effort to drive the defenders out of
katchanik pass. Thus far they have
been unsuccessful.
The British and French troops.
which are receiving reinforcements.
are meeting with some success. and
besides repulsing the Bulgarian at
tacks, have undertaken small often
s1ve movements with good results.
The Austro-Germans and Bulgarians,
however, have made such progress
from the beginning of the campaign
that 1t will take serious work now to
check them.
The Austro-Hungarian admiralty this
week officially announced that the
Italian steamship Ancona attempted to
escape after a warning shot had been
fired across her bow and that the YES.
sci only stopped after being shelled
several times by an Austrian subma-
rine
So far as Thomas Nelson Page, the
American ambassador, has been able
10 ascertain from the official reports ,
received through the Italian govern !
ment and from the British consuls at
Bizerta and Tunis, the following /
American citizens were on the Anco- !
IA, which was sunk by an Austrian
submarine last week: I
DR.. Decile L. Greil, Alex Pataivo and
his wife and four children, Mrs. Fran c
,esco Mascolo Lamura, Pasquale Lau-
inc and Giuseppe Torrisi and his wife.
OF these only Mrs. Greil and Torrisi
ire among the survivors.
For the moment the political situa- {
ion is graver than the military. The :
central powers have again protested
o Greece against the landing of al
led troops at Saloniki. King Constan- ;
Inc is reported to have replied that
8 Saloniki is an open port there has
cen no infringement of Greek rights
q the landing, and that Greece will
emain neutral until one of the bel =
gerents has transgressed against ,,
hose rights. France and Italy, who "
as now Joined her allies by sending a y
'arship to Saloniki. are particularly !.
nxious as to the attitude of Greece. .
In the only fight reported from
northwestern Russia in the region of
iga the Germans were repulsed by
lie artillery fire of the Russians. This
Engagement took place in the Ikskul e.
Istrict. Farther south Berlin reports I
" the Germans another advance al
trough the Russian lines near 81
zartorysk and the repulse of Russian m
-tacks north Of Kovel-Sarny line by
lie Austro-Hungarians.