Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-11-27
RUMAN|A GETS
|NTOL|MEL|GHT
IN THE BALKANS
Country May Permit Troops
of the Czar to Gross
Toward Bulgaria
MAY EVEN ENTER
WAR WITH ALLIES
Russians Collecting Great
Number Of Men for Big
Drive Against Foes

Petroarad, Nov. 26.-According
to information from excellent
sources received here, Italy has
begun landing troops at Avlona,
Albania.
Paris, Nov. 26.-A victory for
the French forces in Serbia, in an
offensive movement undertaken
on Tuesday last, is reported in
dispatch from SaIoniki filed yes
terday, to the Havas agency. The
French are said to have captured
the town Of Brousnik, west OF
krivoIak.
Field Marshal Won Maekensen's
armies are pressing the pursuit
OF the retreating serbians. The
Serbian rear guards have been
offering resistance but were
thrown back in the Metrovitza
region and southwest of Slenica,
near the Montenegrin frontier,
Berlin announces.
Russian offensive movements at
several points along the Dvina
river front from Riga to Dvinsk
are mentioned in today's state
ments by the German war office.
All the attacks were repuIsed,
Berlin declares.
British casualties in officers, as
shown by the lists issued for the
fortnight ended November 8, had
- ~ .
702, of which number $3.50 officers
had been killed, 12,561 wounded
and LISP listed as missing.
London. Nov. 26.-Greek affairs hav
ng emerged from the uncertainty
which for some time has been potent
menace to the allied campaign in the
Balkans, Rumania's problem now
the chief attention in
Europe. Although Rumania is bese
With difficulties somewhat similar tt
hose which caused Greece to hesi
ate, she is not involved in the same
political turmoil and her situation il
expected to mature more rapidly.
Whatever German efforts have beer
made in Rumania. it is believed here
hey have been largely Offset by the
presence of large Russian forces close
% the frontier and the now rapidly
developing Russian preparations, with
Odessa as base, from which no 9th
,r inference is possible than her i'm
Mediate entrance into the Balkan con
1ict.
Russian Army Ready.
Emperor Nicholas Is said to have
promised the appearance Of Russian
;roops in Bulgaria within a week
There are increasing indications that
his campaign will be launched by
way of Rumania and it is reported
hat conferences are now being held
between representatives of Russia
md Rumania to obtain the latter's
consent to this move. This consent
IS intinated clearly by Rumaniar
has depended on whether
he allies gain a preponderance Of
orces in the Balkans. Rumania
gives evidence Of being impressed
strongly by the concentration Of
'50 900 Russian troops at 1smail and
2eni, near the border.
,---.a,~ Serbs Not Beaten.
No important achievement has been
.eported on either side since the Ger
nan announcement of the fall Of Pris
ina and Mitrovitza. With only a
small strip of territory left to defend
serbia's leaders declare she is un
beaten and can still harass the in
7aders. General Boyadjieff, the Bull
,arian commander, says, on the other
land that King Peters troops will be
out out Of action in few days.
italians Near Success.
No official report had reached Lon
lon today of the capture of Gorilla
~ the Italians, although the fall Of
he city was regarded as imminent
This important system of fortifica
ions. commanding the railway lines
the upper and lower Ison
%, and called the key to the Austrian
lefenses to the north, has been the
objective for which the italian army
las been struggling for several
months.
SUSPICIOUS OF GREEKS.
The Pail Mall Gazette, recalling the
assurances given by Eleutherois Ven
zeIos, the Grecian ex-premier, and
he way they were nullif1ed by King
actions, regards the
present Greek assurances with skep
.icism and declares that the promises
IF Premier Skouloudis and his col
eagues, whatever shape they may as
.uu,o ORC not IN he taken fo0 SeriN1ls