Evening star., 1915-11-20
ITALY TO DECLARE
WAR ON GERMANY
AT ONCE, IS CLAIM
Serbian Military Situation Is
Reported to Be Going From
Bad to Worse.
GERMAN INVADERS
BATTLING IN SHOWS
Bulgars Said to Have Taken Mon
astir and Also to Have Been Re-
pulsed at This Point.
FRENCH THREATEN VELES
King Peters Men Retreat in Good
Order-Germans Land Forces
on Rumanian Island of
Hurawai.
GERMAN INVADERS
BATTLING IN SHOWS
FRENCH THREATEN vELEs

LONDON, November go. 3:37
pm. The correspondent at
Bern, Switzerland, of the Cen
trail News telegraphs:
Diplomats understand that an
Italian declaration of war on Ger
many is only matter of hours. -
The Serbian military situation
is going from bad to worse. In
the north the main Serbian armies
are giving way slowly before the
battering Austro-Gerrnan forces
which probably would move more
rapidly if weather conditions were
better. 1t is established that the
Bulgarians are in Prilep, and at
least have made Monastir unten-
able. The Angio-French armies
based on Saloniki seem to do no
better than hold their positions.
Announcement was made bv
the Berlin war Office today of the
capture of 2,8oo more Serbians.
The. occupation of Novavaros
and Sienica, in western Serbia
near the MontenegTin border, is
reported. Toward the center OF
the Teutonic advance the town
of Raska, about twelve miles
northeast of Novipazar, has been
reached.
Doubt as to Monastir.
A dispatch from Rome to the Ex-
change Telegraph Company says a tele-
gram to the Tribuna from Athens
states that the Bulgarians have oc-
cupied Menastir and that the Serbians
are in full retreat.
An Athens dispatch to the Exchange
Telegraph Company filed Friday says
Serbian troops at Monastir succeeded
the day previous .fn advancing to a
>d:stance OF seven kilometers tasout
four and two-thirds miles," The tele-
gram adds that the intentions toward
Monastir of the Bulgarians who have
occupied Prilep are unknown.
The reference to the Serb advance at
Nonastir is rather cryptic. Unofficial
adyices yesterday were that the. town
nad been occupied by the BuIgars. The
advance" may have been made before
the town finally was abandoned or it
may mean that Monastir still is in the
possession of the Serbians and that the
Bulgars have been repulsed
French Strive to Take Veles.
The newspaper Hestia of Athens saws
II believes that there are $1,000 Bulgari-
ans in Priiep and surrounding district,
where there are only small Serbian forces
The paper says that the French having
repuised Bulgarian attacks for three days.
are redoubling their efforts to occupy
EeIes.
Reuter- dispatch from Athens filed
yesterday says:
Arrivals from the front saw the
seroiaps are retreating in perfect or
der and have lost no prisoners The guns
captured by the Bulgarians are old pieces
OF little value. and thousand pieces of
artillery remain in the possession Of the
serns, whose morale is still good The
ultimate issue depends upon Ibe timely
arrival OF the allies forces"
Winter Hinders Germans.
Advance of the Austro-German troous
through Serbia is being hampered not
only by the desperate resistance of the
serbs, but by severe winter weather
according to dispatches from the front
received at Vienna and Budapest The
invaders are struggling through deem
snow in the mountains northeast al
the ssnjak, where their hardships are
increased by low temperatures
serb positions are taken only after
bitter hghting Some of the fercest
engagements hsi.5,s snnt have have been fought on
where the troops on both sides are en-
eamped In deep snow. Difficulty is ex-
perienced, also. in maintaining com
'h'edt'ohs ana bringing up supplies
Germans on Rumanian Soil.
BUCHAREST. Run.ania. Noyembe- 10
ia Copenhagen and London, Noyernher
zo.-The newspaper Epoca asserts tba,
Austrian and German troops have landed
on the Rumanian island of Hurawai In
the Danube river. and that they are plac-
ing mines in the river and watching the
movements OF the Runa nian troops The
Epoca asks why the Rumanian govern
ment takes no action in the matter.
Grecian Situation.
BERLIN, November 20.-"Accordine tc
advices from Constantlnople to the Frank
furter Zeitung,' says the Overseas News
Agency, serious measures are being con-
sidered In Athens in connection with the
existing situation. II is declared that the
British and French are behaving at Sa
lontki as IL that port were their property y
and that insinuations have been made re-
gardins the overthrow of the dynasty !;
is noted that a corps Of gendarmes sta
toned in New Greece a body formed
principally of Cretans, has been openl,
agitating in favor OF former Premier Ven
izelos
ut IL pointed out tina: a state of siege
can be proclaimed in all Greece withou,
the action of parliament, II a sufficient
emergency arises