Abbeville progress., 1915-11-27
ENTENTE ALLIES DEMAND or
GREECE HER STAND IN THE
PRESENT CONFLICT.
BRITISH ARMY IS GROWING
The serbians Are Holding Out Oesper-
ately Against Great ODDS, Whlle IN
France and Russia Fighting HaS
Slowed Down Somewhat.
Latest News From the War Fronts

ish foreign office that there mas Deell
no blockade OF Greek ports instituted
and that no Greek ships in BfItiSh
pCrts are being seized and held
feeling of optimism peryades EnSiand
that Greece has conceded. or VIII con
cede. the entente allies demahds
made by Earl Kitchener. the BRUSH
war secretary and Denys Cochin OF
the French cabinet
A Paris news agency is authority tof
the statement that Earl Kitchener in
his representations to the Greek KING
and officials said Great Britain next
March will have 100000 soldiers un-
der arms and be able also to arm and
provision 5000. O00 Russians and that
il would be stupidity to think the waT
could end otherwise than in complete
defeat for Germany.
From Chiasso, near the Italian from
tier, it is said that Italian troops nave
begun landing in Albania.
4 late report from the Montenegrin
war office says that despite vigorous
attacks against the MonteneSrin
Sanjak army 1t is moving toward new
positions. while the Serbian legation
at Paris reports the defeat of the Bul
garians by the Serbs twenty-five miles
west of Nish.
No late news has been received con-
cerning the situation in the south, es-
pecially in the region OF Monastir.
Paris reports quiet in the vicinity ol
Strumitsa and on the left bank Of the
Cerna river, where the French forces
are operating.
To the recent presence OF Field Mar
shal Kitchener on the Gallipoli penin'
sula probably will be attributed the
resumption of activity in the Darda-
nelles operations. From German and
Turkish sources come reports of VIC
lent fighting on the tip OF the penin-
sula in the neighborhood of Seddul
Bahr. The Cologne Gazette character
ICES the new operations initiated by
the entente allies as "A great often
sive movement"
The armies of the central powers
are still pressing the defending forces
hard in Western Serbia, but the Serbs
and Montenegrins are offering the
strongest resistance. The Montene-
grins are giving battle to the invaders
along the Drina and Linn river and. at
+ several points are said 10 have re.
| pulsed them, while in the 1bar valley
Serbian rear guards assumed the of
fensive.
1t is reported that the Serbians al
Monastir are receiving reinforcements
and that the British also are sending
up men to the front. Additional
forces of men and guns are being land
ed daily by the allies at Galoniki.
Hard fighting is still in progress on
the Austro-Italian front with the biz
guns of the Italians working hard Oh
Gorilla and adjacent sectors. Accord
ing to Vienna, the Austrians have
I driven the Italians from all the posi-
tions they had captured around Osla
via and also elected the Italians VINO
entered the Austrian lines in the dis
trict of San Martino.
Little is going on either in Francs
or in Russia except artillery lombard
ments and sapping operations.
British and French troops have cap
tured the city of Tibati in the German
colony of Kamerun, West Africa
where the sultan and populace are said
to have welcomed them.
One of Germany's newest dread
noughts struck a mine Friday in the
Baltic sea and went to the bottom
All the members of the crew were
saved except thirty-three, who were
drowned.
The passage of a large flotilla oi
British submarines, variously esti
mated at from ten to twenty-five, into
the Baltic this week is given at Co
penhagen as an explanation of the
recent naval activity in the Cattegat
where both German and British de
stroyer flotillas have been sighted.
The entente allies have demanded
that Greece either join them and full
fill her treaty obligations to Serbia
or demobilize. and to impress King
Constantine that they mean what they
say, the allies have declared a com
mercial blockade of the Hellenic EN-
pire, according to dispatches from
Athens.
The Greek cabinet met to consider
the situation. The Greek government
again has affirmed it's friendliness tc
the allies, but has not vet taken the
steps required to prevent Greece from
being counted among the friends Of
the central powers.
Carrsnza and Ferguson Meet.