The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-10-29
STRENUOUS RESISTANCE OFFER
ED TO GERMANS, AUSTRIANs
AND BULGARlANS IN SERBIA.
SWORD DRAWN ON BULGARS
italy and Russia Draw Sword Against
the Bugars-French and British
Soldiers Continue to Land at Sa-
Ionica to Aid the Serbs.
Latest War News From the Front.


the war, the Russian front furnishes
the most definite reports of many
hard-fOught engagements.
The actual situation in Serbia is
clouded in doubt, although all advices
agree that the defenders of that coun-
try are being gradually forced back
ward by the overwhelming armies Of
Austria-G Germany and Bulgaria and are
anxiously looking in the direction
whence the hoped-for British and
French assistance will come.
A late report from Athens says that
the French troops have crossed the
Vardar river and are threatening the
Bulgars south of Istip.
An important Russian success is re-
ported in the official statement from
Petrograd in the region Of Barano-
vichi, in the central portion of the
Russian line, north of the Pripet river,
where 1862 men and some guns were
captured.
For two weeks the Serbians have
been offering the most stubborn re-
sistance to the advance of the AustrO-
Germans in the north and for more
than a week they have been fighting
the Bulgarians as well along the east
ern frontier. The lines have been
broken at places and some Of their
towns have been captured, but from
all reports, official and otherwise, the
progress of tn , invaders has not been
great.
In the meantime French and British
forces are being landed in large num-
bers at Saloniki. Some of these have
been engaged with the Bulgarians, but
the greatest effort of France and En-
gland apparently is to concentrate suf-
fiCient troops at strategic points and
along the defense lines to make their
services count. The British govern
ment, according to reports, has prof
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a fertile island of the Mediterranean
sea, if Greece will take up arms on
the side of the allies. Greece may be
given the alternative of plainly defin.
ing her attitude in the world conflict.
An imperial manifesto issued at Pc,
trograd characterizes Bulgaria as the
"betrayer of the Slav cause" and an.
nounces that Russia draws the sword
against her.
Italy has declared war on Bulgaria,
following the example of Great Brit
ain and France, and an Italian squad
ron has left Brindisi for the near East,
presumably to participate in the block.
ade of the Bulgarian coast on the
Aegean sea extending from the Greek
border to the mouth of the Martha
river, a distance of about sixty miles.
These ships might be utilized also
in assisting the British and French in
covering the landing of more troops
at Enos and possibly in reducing the
Bulgarian port Of Dedeaghatch, the
terminus of the railway line leading
northeastward to Adrianople, Euro
pean Turkey.
Whether the allies who landed at
Enos are intended to enter the Serbian
campaign direct or will be thrown
northward to combat any attempts by
the Turks to move westward into the
new zone of fighting, or whether they
will be started eastward to menace
the head of the Gallipoli peninsula or
the road to Constantinople has not
been permitted to become known.
Major General Sir Ian Hamilton has
been relieved of the command of the
British forces in the DardanelIes and
called home to make report to the
war office on the Gallipoli campaign
He is to be succeeded by Major Gen.
eral Charles Carmichael Monro, an of.
ficer who has seen wide service.
The DaTdanelIes operations have
not been as fruitful of results as the
British war office and the people of
England would wish, and of late there
had been much criticism because of
the failure of the land and sea forces
to make progress that seemed ma
terial to the ultimate aim of the ex-
petition which was to reach Constan-
tlnople.
Another important incident on the
British side of the war is the resigna.
ton from the cabinet of Sir Edward
Carson, the Ulster leader, who was ap.
pointed attorney general last May on
the formation of the coalition minis
try. Disagreements are reported to
have arisen between Sir Edward and
other members of the cabinet and his
resignation, it was said, had been in
the hands Of Premier AsQuith for some
time.
Great Britain's declaration of war
on Bulgaria has been followed by a
declaration of blockade of the Bull.
garian ports on the Aegean sea, a
stretch of about eighty miles, extend
ing from Saritchahan, Greece, to Enos,
European Turkey The seaports af.
fected include Dedeaghatch, Porto
Tagos Maronia and Mecri NaItral