The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-10
THE ARMIES OF MILLIONS IN EU-
ROPE. ARE, FIGHTING IN ALL
KINDS OF WEATHER.
SERBIANS IN BAD Way
Battles Staged in Montenegro, Where
Nations, Accustomed to Mountain
Life, Give Pursuing Enemies Hot
WeIcome-From Other Fronts.
Latest News From the War Fronts.


tons of. the British and French. Moth,
ing official has come through as to
whether the Bulgarians have yet
taken Monastir.
The Austro-Hungarian forces are
continuing their inroads into North
and Northeastern Montenegro, but the
..Montenegrins, aided by Serbians who
T., escaped the Teutonic net, are giving
them battle.
Vienna reports that during the
month of November the Austrian army
Of General KOevess captured 4O,8OO
Serbian troops and 26,6OO civilians fit
for military service.
The ultimate stand Of Greece and
Roumania toward the entent powers
Is question which again looms large.
Greece, SO far as can be ascertained,
has not yet complied with the de-
mands of the entente powers last
note, which it is understood en-
braced the concrete proposition that
their forces ihould be absolutely I'M
trammeled in Greek territory. In Lon
don the fear seems to prevail that
Greece will not acquiesce to the full in
these demands
Roumania, according to unofficial
reports, has declined to accede to z
proposal from Russia that Russian
warships be permitted to use the Dan
ube to move against Bulgaria and has
demanded that Russia respect her neu.
trality. In connection with the re.
cent reports that large masses OF
Russians had gathered in Bessarabia
for the Bulgarian campaign, a report
says the number of Russians had been
greatly exaggerated and that in adj
ditiOn they are nearly all recruits.
Earl Kitchener, the British war
minister, has returned to England
from the Near East and is expected
in a few days to lay before the Brit
ish war council the results of his OBJ.
serVations and also his conversations
with the king of Greece, the king of
Italy and the members OF the French
war council, whom be visited on his
trip home.
The nature of the fighting on the
Austro-Italian frontier is indicated by
the Austrian official communication
issued by the war office, which says:
ut becomes clearer and clearer that
the Italians will at all costs force a
victory near Gorilla if It is at all pos
sible to do So"
For the first time since the out
break Of the war Emperor William Of
Germany and Emperor Francis Joseph
Of Austria have met. The German
emperor went to Vienna and confer
red with the Austrian sovereign, the
Austrian foreign minister, Baron Bu-
rian, and the Hungarian premier,
Count Tisza.
The nature Of the conferences can
only be surmised, but they are be-
lleVed to have been concerned with
the situation in the Near East rather
than in any of the other war theaters.
In the face of the approach of Turk
ish reinforcements the British army
operating against Bagdad has been
compelled to withdraw from the vi
cinity of Ctesiphon to position low
or down the Tigris.
The British official report announc.
ing the backward movement says Cen
eral Townsend effected it successful
ly, even including the removal of his
wounded prisoners.
The British auxiliary cruiser Mace.
donla has captured off the South
American coast the steamer Presi.
dente Nitro flying the Argentine flag,
but belonging to the Hamburg,So
American Steamship Company.
A Turkish submarine stopped the
bFltlsn passenger ship Barulos in the
Mediterranean and after twenty-five
persons had been drowned, helped
rescue many Of the $50 passengers
who had gone overheard, according to
Eleanor Franklin Egan, an eyewitness
who arrived in New York Sunday on
the steamship New York.
EFT seemed that l had no sooner
struck the water than the submarine
appeared under the bow Of our shin.
On her deck saw number of men
with an officer whom took to be an
Austrian, The submersible had her
cdllRpsfbIe tifeboat out and the sub.
marine crew were pulling people out
Of the water onto her deck. The of.
fleet kasl hpldiag up his hand shouting
1.-THE people in the water to be calm,
heard Him say in perfect English.
"'For Gods sake go back to your
ship; we are not murdeFers."
Wilmington, Del2Thirty workmen
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