Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-10-16
BuLGARS and GERMANS
CLOSE IN ON SERBS
THE RAILWAY CONNECTING BEL
GRADE WITH CoNsTANTINoPLE
OBJECTIVE OF eULGARIANs.
PASSPORTS GIVEN MINISTER
Ersnch and British Claim to Be Vic
torious in the Fighting in France.
Greece Will Maintain An
Armed Neutrality.
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Latest War News From the Front.
Bulgaria has definitely thrown her
LOT with Germany, Austria and Turkey,
and her troops, having crossed the
Serbian frontier, are endeavoring to
capture and hold the railway connect
ing Belgrade with COnstantinOple and
rossiblv also the line running south
from Nish to Saloniki, over which
French and British troops who recent |
" landed at Salonih are moving |
north to the aid Of Serbia.
Coincidently with Bulgaria's attack, |
the British government sent Bdlsaria's |
minister at London his passports. !
While the Greek premier, on learning
officially of the adhesion of the Bull
CARS to the cause of the Teutons, is
| said TO have announced the intention
of Greece to remain in position OF
armed neutrality NJ. Venizelos, the
former premier, who favors the entry
of Greece into the war on the side OF
the entente allies and who holds the
majority in the Greek parliament, is
insistept that his policy shall not be
abridged by the new government
At the opening of parliament NJ
Venizelos, in an address, so informed
the government, and he added:
1.-THE national soul says it is to the
interest of Greece that Bulgaria should
be crushed"
The battle is In full swing along the
northern frontier of Serbia, where the
Austro- Germans are pounding at the
Serbian positions in an endeavor to cut
their way through the little kingdom
with the object of relieving their
Turkish ally.
Although the main Serbian forces
are declared to be waiting further
south for the crucial test, the leu
tons are not gaining ground unopposed
in the north. The war office at Nlsn
says that the losses on both sides are
enormous, particularly in officers, and
: that the Serbs are valiantly resisting
the inroads of the invaders and at nu
merous points have been victorious
over them.
Coming to the aid of their compa
r triots are the Serb troops from -Aiaa
8 mia and seven divisions whicht hh'
Il Leen on duty along the Bulgarian
front. while unofficial advices are u
s the effect that thousands of untraine'
E. men and many women in the Serbian
t. kingdom are preparing to contest tn
Is march of the Austro-Germans acros
lie their territory.
Is In addition to the capture of the oil
is capital of Belgrade, the heights sout
8, of the city have been taken; the Ge
p man army has completed its task
lg crossing the Danube and battles nav
developed to the west along the froI
Ia of the River Save.
"a, Berlin asserts that the German
he have captured thus far in the oper
lions fourteen officers and 1872 me
and seventeen guns. Near Obren
yatz, on the Save front, the Serbs 81
ur- the Germans are using asphyziatil
ma gas in abundance.
go Further progress for the ALI
in forces against the Germans In t
the Artois and Champagne regions
NJ. claimed by Paris, but elsewhere alo
ans | the line from betStum W thc NOin
'ec- frontier only artillery engagemer
ion have been fought. A gain in grou
the on the road between Souchez and 4
We gres. the capture Of e blockhouse
29 the Givenchy wood in Artois and
'iod taking of a German fortified We
five near Tahure, in Champagne, are ella
d ed by Paris.
In the western theater of war
Germans renewed their attacks on
allied trenches before Loos, Fran
the but, according to a French offiC
the statement, these assaults were che
,tur- ed and the Teutons were driven b
clos to their own trenches. Concern
An the fighting in this district Sir j
min French reports that northeast of L
1928 the British have pushed their trenc
rec steadily forward in spite of
oney enemys artillery fire and have G
ating ed ground var. ing from 500 to 1
Bob yards In depth.
when On the eastern front no strii
|, dur gains are recorded. The Germ
claim to have captured by storm
sian positions on a front of two
two-thirds miles near Dvinsk. So
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