The Penn's Grove record., 1915-12-03
GERMANY PROCLAIMS SERBIA WON
DIVERTS TROOPS TO WATCH RUMANIA
ANNOUNCE ROAD TO TURKEY OPEN
Allies Admit That Serbs Will Have to Give Up MonaStir
and Evacuation is Under Way--ltaIy Prepares
to Send Army to Balkans
GERMAN KAISER VISITS THE AUSTRIAN EMPEROR

London.-Rapid preparations by the
Austro-Germans to meet a drive by
the Russians, and perhaps by Rum
ania. are the late chief developments
of the war news.
The Central Powers, following Ber-
Inns announcement that the ser
bian campaign had been
after the escape of King Peters main
army into Albania, began a change OF
front toward the allies at Strumltsa
and toward the Danube.
Leaving merely a screen OF troops
against the Serbians in Albania, n
Austro-Germans began massing their
forces to counterfeit a possible sur
prise by the Cars troops n the
Rumanians.
The Russians are reported to have
at the Rumanian border more than
$50. 900 troops, well supplied with
heavy artillery, ready for the word
to cross Rumanian territory and in
wade Bulgaria.
For more thar two weeks the Rus
slams have been saying, unoffieially
that Rumania would swing to their
side in the final test.
The Italians, still preparing to send
an army into the Balkans, continue
their b~ombardment of Gorilla, whose
Suburbs are reported in flames and
whose civilian population is fleeing
the city with all possible haste. The
evacuation is proceeding methodically
but constantly day and night.
STILL LANDING AT SALoNlKl.
Saloniki dispatch to The London
Daily Chronicle) = Greater activity
than ever prevails here, chiefly on
the part of the British. The landing
of men is continuous. At a late hour
at night a large detachment of Scot
fish troops came ashore and Salonlkl
heard the Scottish bagpipes for the
first time. A large crowd watched the
men march through the streets.
The British are taking over a por-
ton of the present French front.
French aviators carried out their
first raid from the French right to
Strumitza town. They dropped near
Iy fifty bombs on the town and en-
the troops encamped neal by.
The Bulgars are still making no
impression on the Serb line before
Monastir.
It is reported on reliable authority
that the Serbian army, recently stat
ed to be descending toward Uskab,
has changed it's line Of retreat, n
now is proceeding in the direction of
Prilen, via Kachanik. A junction of
the Serbs with the allied armies is
said to be expected near Prilep.
The Serbs have been forced to
abandon some guns in this march,
but the Allies are providing cannon
ito take the place of those lost. This
movement should sensibly improve
the Serbian position generally.
British Airman's Daring Feat.
London.-A daring night flight by
a British naval airman is announced
in the London Gazette. Flying fifty
miles inland from the Dedeaghatch
shore, Flight Commander Smyth-
Pigott reached Kuleli-Burgas, in the
Bulgarian territory recently coded to
Turkey, and in the moonlight drop
ped bombs on the great bridge of the
Orient Trunk Line crossing the Ma
ritsa River into Turkey on the way
TO Constantinople, the only railway
connecting the Turkish capital with
Dedeaghatch, Adrianople, Sofia, and
the whole system of central European
railways.
In recognition of this Commander
Smyth-Pigott has been appointed a
Companion Of the Distinguished Ser
vice Order. He was able to locate
the bridge by the moonlight shining
on the river, and descended within
300 feet of it before releasing his
bombs. He was heavily fired on, and
in spite of trouble with the engine OF
his machine returned safely to the
base after a fight lasting four hours.
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