Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-11-13
NEARLY THREE HUNDRED SUR
VIvORs WERE LANDED; THERE
WERE 582 ABOARD SHIP.
DANGER TO SERBS INCREASE
The Austro- Germans and 8ulgarians
Continue TO Advance, With Heavy
Artillery Engagements on Other
War Fronts, Etc.
Latest War News From the Front.

the Austrian colors. She carried 4z1
passengers and 100 In the crew. Two
hundred and seventy survivors. some
of them wounded have been landed at
Bizerta, on the North African coast.
The Ancona sailed from New York
for Naples on October II. She had on
board 1,245 Italian reservists and
general cargo She arrived at Naples
October % and was due 10 sail from
Naples for New York November 3.
The Ancona was built at Belfast IN
1908. She had a gross tonnage OF
S.21O. was 4S2 feet in length and fifty
eight feet beam. For several months
before Italy's entrance into the war
the Ancona was engaged in carrying
home Italian reservists from the Unit
ed States and supplies for the Italian
government.
Every day adds to the peril of the
Serbian armies. fighting desperately
to hold back the AustroGermans
pressing them from the north and
the Bulgarians invading their country
from the east. until the assistance
their allies are sending can reach
them.
Dispatches from Athens are to the
effect that parliament will be dis
solved NJ Skouloudis, the new Greek
premier, has formally notified France
that Greece will remain neutral and
that she will continue her friendly at
titude toward the landing of entente
troops at Salonih.
On the other hand, it is asserted
that the Bulgarian premier has mott
fled Greece that Bulgaria regards ia
cilities for landing forces at SalOniki
as incompatible with neutrality. The
British government has issued a reg
ulation requiring males of Is years
and over who are DESTROYS of emigrat-
ing to procure passports. The step
was taken TO prevent the emigration
OF able-bOdied men who desire to
evade military service.
During the course of a long debate
in the house of lords in London Tues
day the marquis of Lansdowne, de-
Tending the governments Balkan pol
Icy, said ii was founded on the hope
that the Balkan states would be ready
to enter into what might be called a
give-and-take arrangement between
themselves. II was impossible to find
troops, he explained, when the rela-
tons between Bulgaria and Serbia
first became strained, and for a time
IT was impossible to say what would
be the most effectual way for aiding
Serbia. taken in conjunction with
other operations.
The London Evening News publish
ed dispatch from The Hague saying
that the Berlin Vorwaerts has been
suppressed temporarily. The Vor-
waerts is the organ of the social dem
ocratic party. Twice previously dur
ing the war it was suppressed tempo
rarily.
Germany, in a note which reached
the state department at Washington
Tuesday. denies testimony alleged to
have been given in English courts that
German officers prepared false Amer
lean passports and handed them to
agents" and expresses doubt that such
testimony ever actually was given.
A repulse of the Italians on the Do
berdo plateau and the capture by the
Italians of the summit of the Col di
Lana, from which, however, they later
were driven out, are recorded by
Vienna
There again has been a considerable
submarine activity. A British subma-
rine has sunk the German cruiser I'm
dine off the coast of Sweden. while
the German submarines have sunk the
armed merchantmen Tara in the East
ern Mediterranean. In addition, the
British steamers Buresk, Glenmore
and Woolwich and the steamer Bright
which was either of Swedish or Nor
wegian nationality. have been sunk by
German submarines. The crews of all
the steamers were saved.
In the south Paris reports that
French troops in the vicinity of Rabro-
vo have consolidated the positions
they have taken and that near Krivo-
lax violent attacks by the Bulgarians
have been repulsed.
The Montenegrin official report
records the repulse OF Teutonic in
vaders near Grahovo with heavy
losses, but Vienna asserts that all
Montenegrin attacks have failed
In the fighting in France in the re-
gion of the Somme and Disc rivers
the French have captured German
posts near Andrechy and repulsed
German attacks near Beuvraignes.
There have been engagements in
Champagne, in the Argonne forest and
in the "osges.
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