The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-11-26
ALLIES TO FORCE
ISSUE WITH GREECE
SCOTS TAKE TRENCHES FROM
TURKS IN OARDANELLES AS
KITCHENER LOOKS ON.
SERBIANS STILL RETOEATING
The Austro-German-BuIgarian Armies
Gradually Overcoming Serbia, While
Yin France and Russia the Austro-
Germans Are on Defensive.
Latest News From the War Fronts.

l Ae dLIiJuue OF the entente allies to
ward Greece, from which country they
are endeayoring to get a definite
guarantee for the safety of the
French, British and Serbian troops,
and the whole military policy in the
Near East, including the Dardanelles.
will, it is expected, be made clear
in few days.
As to Greece, it is reported from
'R0me that immediate action will be
taken and no delay will be tolerated
1t is said that Italy will take an i'm
portant part in the forthcoming de-
Yelopments. The action will natural
Iy depend upon the attitude which
King Constantine and his ministers
assume toward the entente powers.
The council at Paris, in which Brit
1Sh, and French cabinet ministers took
part came to important decisions and
dGari Kitchener, looking over the
ground, both in Gallipoli and the Bal
kaRs, is to report on the best means
OF dealing with the situation arising
out of the AustroGerman and Bull
garian successes in Serbia and
Greece's leanings toward the central
pOYers.
The arrival Of Lord Kitchener. the
British secretary of war, in the Near
East has apparently aroused the Brit,
ishtrOODs on the Gallipoli peninsula to |
renewed activity, and Scottish troops.
aided by two British monitors and a
cruiser, have captured Turkish
trenches and consolidated them, suf->A
fering in tie attainment of their VIC
tory relatively slight casualties-lessI
than fifty men killed or wounded.
The Turks lost at least seventy men
Killed in the fighting and thirty others
bdEled in trenches blown up in SAP
ping operation.
IN the Serbian theater the situation
Is the same as for days past, The
Austro-Germans and Bulgarians in the
north and west are still making prog
ress against the Serbs and Montene.
grfns and driving them nearer and
nearer the Montenegrin frontier. In
the south all the French positions
have been maintained.
There is some uncertainty as to the
Serblans' line of retreat. Some dis.
patches say they are falling back on
hOnastir, where there are British re.
Inducements; others that they are re.
treating onAOchrida, on the southern
Albanian frontier.
The French have inflicted serious
defeat on the Bugarians on the Var.
Oar river and it is unofficially report.
ed that the British have had a sue.
cess on the Valandoyo front,
Artillery engagements and mining
operations are going on in France
ana Paris reports the destruction of
several German positions. Gorilla is
stan under the artillery fire of the
Italians, who, according to reports, are p
preparing for formidable attack ON d
lhis' the gateway to Triest, with a u
half million men. IL
A dispatch to the Exchange Tele- q
graph Company from Copenhagen d
lated Wednesday, gives a report that II
Ilotllia of twenty-five German tor 1T
1edo boats and big cruiser passed "
delSingborg, on the southwest coast &C
u Sweden, at o'clock in the morn II
hg' proceeding at a high speed north. 70
ward. - - al
HeIsingborg is at the northern en-
rance to the sound which separates
'weden and Denmark. Vessels pass =,
ng Helsingborg and proceeding north ~ ~
you'd enter the Cattegat, which leads III
" way of the skagerrak into the ~,
forth sea. '' tn
me hospital ship Anglia, with about III
w wounded men on board. in addi- 81
ION to the crew, nurses and attend. al
GUS bound from France for Dover 81
FucK mine in midchannel Wednes. ~
ay and sank in very short time Oh
early 100 men, most of them serious
wounded and therefore In their cots
'st their lives. u.s.
The intimation of the Creek GOV dot
'hment that any allied troops seek. fes
g refuge in Greek territory will ba nm
sarmed has been the cause Of CON Wiyo
leFaoie anxiety to the entente pow the
and consequently Field Marshal !pri
Itenener's Near East visit gains add bal
Importance. -, '' 49, 49,
Belated dispatches from Athens saw rip
at Greece bases her decision on m, the
national law, while the entente ma ma
nisters contend that the right ac. ia
'ded troops to enter the country not
'ough Saloniki permits them to re- bra
oy the same route, should it he. nor
ne necessary for them to do IL abs
Spencer Churchill, who has
q the most severely criticised mem.
of the English government and A
has been held personally respon. ere;
g Tor the loss Of Rear Admiral Sir 80
istopher Cradock's fleet in the Pa. viii
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