Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1915-10-20
All'!s Capture Strong Positions

All'!S capture Strong Positions
6sIman iavaders Meeting With Greater
Resistance In Serbia Than was Expected.
Oct. 1S.-Maj. Gen. Sir Ian
Hamilton has been relieved Of the
command of the British forces in
the Dardanelles and called home
to make report to the wa1 Office
on the dallipoli campaign. He il
to be succeeded by Maj. Gen.
Charles Carmichael Monro, who
has seen wide service.
The Dardanellss operations
iave not been as successful a. thu
British war Office and people
would wish, and of late there has
been much criticism because of
the failure of the land and sea
orces to make progress that seem.
I'd material to the ultimate aim
Of the expedition, which was to
each Constantinople.
Another important incident on
be British side of the war il the
eslgnation from the cabinet of
SIT Edward Carson, the Ulster
9ader, who was appointed Attor.
ICY General last May on the for.
n.'tion of the coalition ministry,
)lsAgreements are reported to
iave arisen between Sir Edward
and other members of the Cabinet.
While the Serbians and Monte.
1rins in northern and western
serbia are strenuously oontssting
,he march of the Teutons and on
5hs east the Serbians are fighting
aard against Bulgarian attacks,
he Anglo-Frenoh forces to the
south are declared in unofficial
reports to be making progress in
their efforts to bring relief to their
,lsrassed allies.
Report has it that Anglo.Frenoh
troops already have occupied the
Important stragetio town of
otrumista In the extreme SOUTH
western part of Bulgaria and that
landing has been made by them
IN Turkey, at Enos at the mouth
Ut the Martha river, a short dis.
lance southeast of the Bulgarian
port of Dedesghatoh.
While Enos is q shallow water
port at it's environs are unhealthy
wing to the marshy country the
AariSzA river 10 navigabls at this
season OF the year by barges as
far as Ardlsnople. A short dis.
sauce westward an invading force
would be in close pre- cximity to the
Bulgarian railroad line running
north through the territory re-
Gently acquired by Bulgaria from
turkey to Adrianople, the juno
zion point Of the road running
from Belgrade to Constantinople
which she Teutonic allies are try.
ing to secure control of in order
to aid the Turks.
Both Berlin and Vienna claim
their troops aud those Of Bulgaria
are making progress in Serbia,
but this progress Is slow. Vienna
claims that several additional
vantage points have been taken
oy the Teutons aud that the Bull
sarians in the north have gained
ground in the mountainous coun.
try and farther south have advanc.
d over Egri Aalanka in their at.
tempt to gain the Uskup-Nish
Railway. the cutting of which
probably would delay the progress
of the F.ench aud British troops
from Saloniki.
Artillery commandments and
fighting by means of hand gre
hades have been the sole methods
Of warfare along the French line;
while on the Russian front the
sttempt of Field Marshal Won
Hindenburg to push through to
Dvinsk has brought out the hard.
est fighting. Berlin asserts that
good progress has been made by
Won Hindepburg to the south of
Riga and that near Illoukst Rus.
sian positions extending over q
front Of nearly two miles have
bsen captured.
Stubborn fighting continues in
the Austro.Italian zone, with the
Italians on the offensive. On the
plateau of Doberdo the Italians in
an attack reached the Austrian
entanglements at some places but
Vienna says were finally driven
off.
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