New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-02
Kraguyevatz Now In
Hands of Macken.
sens Forces.
MONTENEORINS
HOLD AUSTRIANS
Seek to Save Retreat Line
for SerbianS - Allies
Repulse Bulgarians.
CLEARING ORIENT LINE
CLEARING ORIENT LINE
Colonel Repington Sees Teutons
In Constantinople Inside
of Week.
fRy Cable 10 rhs rrihgna,


London, Nov. l.-Kraguyevatz,
the great arsenal ard historic cita-
del Of Serbia, near which the Aus
trian debacle last December took
place, to-day is in German hands,
while Bulgarian guns are reported
pounding at the outer forts of Nish
itself.
Serbian resistance is thus prac-
tioally at an end, and Colonel Rep
ington's prediction in "Thc Times
that within a week the Teutons
would be in Constantinople is in a
fair way of being realized.
While the report Of the approach
to Nish is not confirmed in to-night's
official statement from Sofia, the
fall of the Serbian capital already
has been discounted here, and the
question now is, not how long Won
Mackensen can be kept from taking
the Orient Express to aid the be-
leaguered Sultan, but how much of
Serbia's shattered forces can BE-
saved.
With the southern avenus Of re-
treat cut off by the Bulgar grip on
the Salonica railway between Velss
and Uskub, which the Allies have
been powerless to shake, the only
other route open is the krusevac-
Caeck road, at which the Austro-
Germans are now aiming their prin-
cipat attacks.
MontenegrIns Fight for Time.
From Visegrad an Austrian force
has struck toward Caeck, but for
more than week, despite vastly
superior numbers and artillery, it
has been held up on the Drina, be-
hind which the Montenegrins, by
desperate and sanguinary resist
ance, are seeking to gain time for
their Serb allies.
Further TO the north, however,
another column, under Won koevess,
also has aimed at the line, and,
marching overland from Valievo,
occupied Milanovac yesterday, pass
ine on to-day. Berlin announces, to
the heights south of the town.
Confidence that the Serbs will yet
escape the net and make good their
union with the Montenegrins is still
felt here, although each day lessons
the chances. Then, like the gallant
Belgians, taking their stand in the
last remaining corner Of their land,
remunitioned and equipped by italy
from across the Adriatic, the Serbs
will await the expulsion of the in
vaders.
Mystery continues TO shroud the
developments in Rumania, where
King Ferdinand at last is reported
10 have yielded 10 the will OF the
people, thus making Intervention on
the side of the AlIiee possibly mere
" matter of hours.
Russian Transports ct Sea.
A Russian feet Of transports, seeem-
panied by torpedo boats. have been
sighted on the Rumanian coast, says
a Bucharest dispatch, bat the report
lacks confirmation from any other
source. The Buigsrians have been se-
lively preparing for the defence Of
Varna, and have removed naval vessels
from the hsrbor and prepared to sink
all other shipping in case the Russians
succeed in landing
The Allies continue 10 strengthen
their lines sbout kriyolak and Robrovo.
where the French to-day repulsed sew
eral slight Bulgarian attacks. Tho
British force, according to an ofneisl
announcement, received their first bsp-
tism Of FIRE to-day near Doirsn.
A'V chotN s'Nbto ~ w hotS W ks~s'
on TO Veles. where the Serbs and Bul.
gsrs have been fighting desperately for
days with varying fortunes 10 dom
mate tho town. According 20 last -.
ports the Serbs are now in possession,
but the Bulgsrs hold the railway.
The first hint that the Allied force
landing at Salonics 10 being withdraw
from the Dardanelles 10 received IN >
dispatch from Berlin tonight, which
says that the French are using the
Chasseurs d'Afrique and the Foreign
Legion. formerly employed st Caiiipeli:
The British government has refused ~
word regarding the operations on the
peninsula.
DardaneIles Being AbsadsaedY
With German munitions nov pro-
ceeding to Turkey by way of the uas-
ube and the Bulgarian railvsys u
pointed out that the Allied task st the
bardaneliss 10 wsll-nigh hopeless. ana
that the real avenue TO Censtanu'