NEW MOVE IN SERBIA

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2617, 12 November 1915, Page 5

NEW MOVE IN SERBIA

ALLIES TAKE THE OFFENSIVE REVERSE TO TIE' BULGARS GUN POSITIONS SEIZED ANOTHER LUSITANIA , CRIME THE SINKING OF THE ANCONA ■ AMERICANS ON BOARD NEW WAR COUNCIL Details of the sinking of the big Italian-American liner Ancona by a submarine in tho Mediterranean disclose a piratical outrage comparable in all its aspects with the Lusitania crime, with tlie added horror of the shelling of helpless people in the lifeboats. There wero Americans on board, and the news of the outrage has oreated a profound' sensation in the United States. Germany and Italy are not, officially speaking, at war, but tho fact that a semi-official explanatijn of the attack has.emanated from Berlin gives point to the suspicion that this is another case of Hun piracy. The submarine war in the Mediterranean has suddenly developed inta regular series of attacks oil shipping, but there is comforting news in the reported capture, of a German, submarine by a British destroyer, and of tho 1 sinking of two others by British cruisers in the Straits of Gibraltar. In the northern waters the sound of violent cannonading off the Is- . land of Aland, in-the Baltic, has given rise to a rumour that tho British submarines are engaged with a German squadron. Turning to the land campaigns: The Allies in the Balkans have taken the offensive on the Vardar-Maritza front, and the French have seized important gun positions which were held by the Bulgars. From the Russian front come reports of fresh successes, and of the piercing of the Austro-German line at oiie point. There is practically no news from the Western front beyond the daily routine statement of German attacks repulsed. Mr. Asquith has foreshadowed the establishment of an Anglo-French War Council of Ministers.