BULK OF THE SERBIAN ARMY MAKING FOR THE COAST.

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2648, 20 December 1915, Page 5

BULK OF THE SERBIAN ARMY MAKING FOR THE COAST.

("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) London, December 17. The Serbian Legation points out that tho bulk of the Serbian Army is making its way to the Adriatic at an early date. Ihe army and-the nation have not lost confidence in Serbia. He behoves that 200,000 inen at Salonika, the Russians in- Bessarabia, and 300,000 Serbs and Montenegrins could drive tho enemy out of the Balkans. EIGHTY THOUSAND ITALIANS LANDED IN ALBANIA. (Rec. Decembor 19, 11.30 p.m.) Rome, December 19. Great satisfaction is expressed at' the landing of tho first Italian expedition of eighty thousand in Albania with tho loss of only a transport and a destroyer and a total of forty-three li^es. I SERBIAN.PARLIAMENT TO MEET IN ITALY. - (Rec. December 18, 8.40 p.m.) Rome, December 17. 'A' message from Salonika! states that the members of the Serbian Parliament who are partly in Scutari and partly in Salonika have been ordered to reassemble in Italy and resume legislative functions. AUSTRALIANS AND NEW ZEALANDERS THANKED SERBIANS NEED FURTHER GENEROUS 'AND PROMPT HELP* ' London, December 17. The Serbian Minister in London has sent a special message, thanking the Australians and New Zealanders for their generous help, including £3700 from Now Zealand. Nevertheless., the need is supreme. Those m charge of relief funds depict the horrible sufferings and pitiful scenes connected wit'h tlioso still in Serbia; of desperate mothers frozen with their children. Hundreds of thousands of refugees are in the Albanian desert and tlie rocky hollows of Montenegro, homeless and foodless. Their life is nothing but slow death. . , ~, ~ The Minister concludes: "Help is real only if it comes quickly." A British Commission to aid the Serbian refugees has arrived at Salonika. AMERICAN ASSISTANCE FOR FOODLESS WOMEN & CHILDREN. . Rome, December 17. A telegram from America instructed the 'Ambassador at Rome to charter all the steamers available and send assistance to the foodless women and children in Albania, and bring them to Italy at America's expense.