Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1915-11-04

LONDON, Nov. 3.-(9:5O D. ny
The vigorous support which Herbert
n. Asquith. the British premier. and
Aristide BRAND, the new French pre-
mier. have promised Serbia seemingly
is about to be realized Besides the
Anglo-French troops. including Brit
lsh cavalry, who already are in South
ern Serbia, British and French troops
are arriving daily at Saloniki and
troops from them are being sent up
the country Immediately to attempt
to check the Bulgarian march from
Veles toward Monastir. Other trans
ports, according to a Sofia dispatch
have landed at a Greek port on the
Aegean Sea near the Bulgarian Dor
der. At the same time the diplomats
continue their efforts to obtain the
support of Greece and Rumana for
Serbia. who fought with them in the
last Balkan war
AS time passes, however, Serbias
position grows more critical The
AustrO-German drive from the north
is proceeding slowly but surely, while
two Bulgarian armies are approach
ing Nish, from which place the Ser
bian government has moved to Mis-,
trovitza, over near the Montenegrin
frontier. The Serbians, nevertheless
are fighting stern defensive battles
and from the German accounts it is
apparent that their main armies are
making good their retreat, and leav-
ing, as the Russians did in Galicia and
Poland, very little except what cannot
be moved-such as copper mines-for
the invaders.
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Russian expedition which several
days ago was reported off Farna
Bulgaria's chief seaport. The opinion
is held in the entente allied countries
that Rumania, where there is contin
ued agitation in favor of intervention
on their side. will allow the forces o;
Emperor Nicholas to move across her
territory.
General Ivanoff has won another
victory over the Teutons on the
Stripa river. Farther north in Volhy.
MIA there is heavy fighting and the
Russians claim to have checked an
AuStro.Ger offensive which had as
its objective the capture of Car
torysk
In fact, all along the eastern front
the Russians, according to the Ger
man official report. are making Sc
ries of attacks from the Gulf of Riga
to Rumania. 1t is admitted that tbs
Germans were compelled to withdraw
their lines in the lake district, but the
other Russian attempts are claimed
to have been repulSed.
In the west unfavorable weather is
interfering with the operations.
Both French and British subma-
rines are now in the sea of Marmora,
where the French submarine Tur-
quoise was recently wrecked by the
Turks.
CANNOT RESIST MUCH LONGER.
ROME, Nov. 3.-(Via Paris. 1l:05
p. m.)-The war correspondent of the
Messagero, in an undated dispatch
from KraguyevatZ, Serbia, says:
ut is feared the forces along the
frontier cannot resist much longer,
The Germans, before beginning their
offensive, organized splendid aerial
service with rapid and well-armed
aerOplanes of new model.
"All information indicates that with
out the aid of the Bulgarians. the
Austro-German undertakings would
have been impossible. as they did not
have sufficient reserves to crush the
Serbians.'
The correspondent saw among the
prisoners men from Brest-Litovsk and
wilma, from the French front and the
garrisons of Hamburg Bremen, Berlin
and Frankfort, from Hungary, Dal-
malta and Bosnia, and they even in
cluded men from the Eighth Austrian
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