THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 October 1915, Page 3

THE WAR

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THE SIiIUJIA.N SITUATION.

London, October -0'

Lord Lausdywne, in a, statement u uhe House of Lords, said it was highly improbable that Ike Serbian army would bo able to withstand un Austro-Uornmn-Bulgarian attack for any length oi time. Ho had shown, the public that tho situation in the Balkans is most sexious. Tliere are faw details oi the lighting, but all the cablegrams indicate that a. crisis has been reached. Ihe Austro-Uornuin-Bulgaa-iau ring hat> beou drawn closer and it is even ruinourod tlia-t tlio BuLgars have occupied Tiizrend, the former capitafof Servia. and the Austio-uormains now ai-e at l'osorevate, forty milob south-east 01 Belgrade ;iud their cavalry have entered Valieyo.

A BULGARIAN CLAIM

The Bulbars claim to have captured JNegotin, making junction with the Austro-Gernians imminent and enabling them to forward big guns and munitions to Turkey without traversing

lion mania.

BULGARIAN-GERMAN JUNCTION

IMMINENT.

Bucharest, October 2t. The junction of the Bulgarians ami Germans is imminent.

SERBIA'S CALL I'OR AID

London, "October I'i

M. I'asitch has oauieu begging the friends of Serbia to hasten Avith troops u> save the country from oieaeter. -tie adds: ".For twenty days the enomy nae tried to annihilate us, and we cannot hope to maintain resistance indefiuite-

HJiMOVJfiD I'OR

London, October 27

The .National treasures in Wostniinm i- Abbey and St. Margaret's, \Nctstmiustor, are being reniuvetl to greater safety. THE EASTERN' l-KONT. Petrograd, October *t. German prisoners state that i«heii' comrades at the cityr are- suffering severely from lack ol warm clothing aoid the Hooded trenches caused disorder in the rankii which resulted in the shooing ol lil'toeu men. The German units at Chartorysk have been greatly thinned owing to the transfers to iserbiu and the western trout. There was a snow tall lor threw dayb and the »oads are frozen and do not allord a foothold l'or horses. MXOIIMOUS TEUTON LOSSES. A comuniqiie says:—The enoiny losses at Koinarovo were enorinouft. vlur prisoners include many Germans. BERLIN'S tfEHmiS. Berlin, October 20. A communique state* that the Germaii* east oil Visegrado liavo reached the heights of Suhagorapanos. Von Kosevic's and von Gallewitz's armies are progressing. We captured the northern slopes of Rama. Valley 'wTiicTi is south of Planka and also captured Markovavitk further east. Wo took prisonor 1)00 Serbians in three days. Amsterdam, Oct. 27. A German communique- states: \\u repulsed attacks north-oast ol Souohez, a irl recovered 250 metres of ground m the Champagne -which ive temporarily lost. The French occupy a small part i.i the German trenches north-east ot Mrsnil. Hindenburg made slight gains in dllirtsk sector and clseTrne-ro Hie Rn-sian attacks were repulsed.