Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-12-04
ATTITUDE OF GREECE
and ROUMANIA IN WAR
GREECE HAS NOT VET COMPILED
WITH DEMANDS OF ENTENTE
POWERS LAST NOTE.
The SITUATION IN SERBIA
Reports Say Rotmanta Has Declined
to Accede 10 Demands OF Russia 10
Permit Warships to Ply Danube
on other War Fronts.
Iatcst News From the War Fronts.

The ultimate stand Of Greece and
Roumania toward the cutont powers
is a question which aaain looms large.
Greece. $50 TAR ass can bc asc"riain'd'
has NOT YET complied with the "'
mauds of the cntcut" powers 'a7'
note. which il is understood EN-
braccd the concrete proposition that
their forces .hould be- absolutely uh-
trammcicd .u Grcck territory. IN Lon
don the fear seems to prevail lha'
Greece will not acquIesc" TO the Iuh III
these demands.
Roumauia. according to uuolilcial
reports. has declined to acc'dc To
proposal from Russia that RUSSIAN
warships be- permitted to use the i'ah-
ND, 10 move against Bulgaria and has
demanded that Russia respect her neu-
trality. In connection with me re-
cent reports that large masses OF
Russians had gathered IN Bcssarabla
for the bulgarian campaign. a report
saws the number OF Russians had been
greatly exaggerated and that IN adj
dition they are nearly all recruits.
Earl Kitchener. the British war
minister. has returned To England
from the Near East and is expected
in few days to lay before the Brit
ish war council the results OF his OBJ
servations and also his conversations
with the king OF Greece, the king of
Italy and the members of the French
war council, whom he visited on his
trip home.
The nature of the fighting on the
Austro-Italian frontier is indicated by
the Austrian official communication
issued by the war office, which says;
1T becomes clearer and clearer that
the Italians will at all costs force a
victory near Gorilla If it is at all pos
sibe TO do So
For the first time since the out
break of the war Emperor William Of
Germany and Emperor Francis Joseph
OF Austria have met The German
emperor went to Vienna and confer
red with the Austrian sovereign, the
Austrian foreign minister. Baron b.
rian. and the Hungarian premier.
Count Tisza.
The nature OF the conferences can
only be surmised. but they are be-
lleved to have been concerned with
the situation in the Near East rather
than in any OF the other war theaters.
Coincident with Emperor Williams
visit, however. comes a report from
the semiofficial German news agency
that several members of the Austrian
cabinet are about to resign.
In the face OF the approach of Turk
ish achievements the British army
operating against Bagdad has been
compelled to withdraw from the vi
cinity of Ctesiphon to position low
er down the Tigris.
The British official report announc-
ing the backward movement says Cen
eral Townsend effected il successful
ly. even including the removal of his
wounded prisoners.
The British auxiliary cruiser Mace
donia has captured off the South
American coast the steamer Presi-
dente Mitre, flying the Argentine flag,
but belonging to the Hamburg-S South
American Steamship Company. 1t is
announced that the Argentine govern
ment will ask for the release of the
steamer.
The armies of the Teutonic allies
have drifted almost all the Serbs from
Serbian territory into Montenegro
and Northern Albania, leaving in their
control only a portion of the south
western and southern sections of the
kingdom. which, with the aid of the
British and French forces. they are
holding against the Bulgarians.
with the flight of the scanty re
mains of the Serbian army into the Al
bantam mountains" says the latest of
fetal German communication, our op
erations against this army are brought
to a close, our object of effecting com
munications with Bulgaria and the
Turkish empire having been accom-
Tlished.'
In making this announcement, Der
line reports the capture of Rudnik
southwest of Mitrovitsa, and the TAX
ing of 200 prisoners and much wal
material. The statement says, more
over, that more than 100000 Serbians
almost half the entire fighting
forces-have been made prisoners
while the German losses were ex
tremely moderate"
French aeroplanes have bombardeC
German aircraft hangers at Habsheim
east of Muelhausen, and French anC
German avia.ors have had thrilling
fights in the air, in which four Ger
man machines were brought down