St. John's Daily Star, 1915-11-01

              the st john's daily star newfoundland volume 1 monday november 1 1915 no 165 teutons capture fortress of pirot is key to nish serb capital enemy now endeavoring to capture knaguyevatz the serb arsenal and to surround flam serbian army sanguinary fighting between mon tenegrins and austrian*—allied fleets again bombard aegean ports attack and counter-attack in the west—marked activity in the east i ondon oct 31.—the serbian for tress of pirot described as the key to nish is in the hands of the bul ians while the austro-germans are advancing rom the north endeavour ing to force the ring around knaguy rvatz where the serbian arsenal is situated thus besides endangering both the serbian war capital and the town where the serbian munitions are manufactured the central powers with bulgaria are narrowing the gap through which the serbian army northeast must escape simultaneously the austrians are at tacking montenegro to remove if pos sible the danger of having an enemy army on their flank little has been said about the fighting between the austrians and montenegrins along the drina river but apparently it is of a most sanguinary character as it took the austrians with far superior equip ment more than a week to force the crossing of the river on one qoint alone that south of vishcgead establiship n themselves anglo-french jvo'ops are firmly es tablishing themselves along the south i end of the nish railway and crossing into bulgaria have occupied the hills surrounding strumitsa al together the capture of that town uhuh had been reported is not offic ially confirmed the allied fleets have again bom barded bulgarian towns on the aeg ean sea while these efforts take some strain off serbia there is no re liable information as to the move ments of the greater forces which it is hoped will save her russians get right of way reports continue to circulate chief ly irom german sources of a russian army which is to march across rou mania to the rescue but of british and french reinforcements no news teen received it is possible that in addition to direct assistance the will try indirect means whereby the austro-germans may be prevent ed horn sending reinforcements italy on her part has already un dertaken this by a general offensive there is also talk of another offen sive on the western front thei ger mans seemed to have anticipated this i saturday r«ight they launched a general attack in champagne over a front of five miles in the effort to recover the ground which the french recently took from them made few gains they succeeeded in recapturing butte dc tahurc but according to french accounts they were repulsed everywhere else suffering extremely heavy losses and to the north of lc mcsnil they actually lost one of their own trenches as usual the attack was preceded by artillery bombardment and the fiench reports speak of masses of in antry being decimated there also has been some fighting in artois despite the coming of winter there has been more activity on the rus sian front there has been a lull in the fighting at courtland where the germans have apparently failed to take riga or dvinsk or improve to any marked degree their positions it is believed they are preparing for another drive it must be made soon as snow is fall and the moveneni of heavy artillery is becoming more difficult along the styr the germans en gaged in a counter offensive have re covered some territory which genl ivanoff took from them further south in galicia the russians have returned to the offensive according to vienna they have made unsucces ful attempts to cross the strija the turks report increased activ ity of the allied artillery and war ships in the dardanelles more troops land at salonika port troops of the allies concentrating to relieve pressure on serbs i ondon oct 31 the salonika correspond zv of reuters sends the following concentration of troops of the allies at various points with the object o relieving the pressure on tnc serbians in proceeding more trans ports are expected soon since the recent torpedoing of the british transport marquette in ' the gulf of salonika precautions against submarines have been increased and shipping has been safeguarded in the port of salonika which presents an animated appearance the large number of refugees from serbia and the influx of strangers with many officers belonging to the allied armies and the red cross units have tended considerably to increase rents and food prices there is a shortage of several necessities espec ially flour mr c a jcrrctl of brigus who was in town on business returned icnne by saturday'evening's train canadians get some big orders for munitions orders placed figure out at so per head of population—canada's splendid outlook i qttawa nov i.—before leaving for england on saturday dr d a thomas lloyd george's personal representative in america stated that orders-already placed and further very large orders now being located in can ada for war supplies and munitions would amount in the aggregate to some thing like 300,000,000 over sixty dollars per head of the population of canada this with the enormous grain crop that has just been harvested in the west will mean industrial prosperity for canada for some time to come said mr thomas british nine-sweeper is lost hundred missing the auxiliary war vessel collided with another of his majesty's war vessels and was sunk—was a ship o 509 tons and carried a comple ment of 250 men london oct 31.—during the night of oct 28-29 h.m.s hythe an aux iliary mine-sweeper lieut commander arthur bird was sunk after being in collision with another of his majesty's ships off gallipoli peninsula at the time of the collision she had on board about 250 men in addition to the crew one hundred are re ported missing the hythe was a merchant vessel taken over by the admiralty for naval use she was a steamer of 509 tons gross and built in 1905 fa fa ft fa fa ft bulgars occupy part of veles but lost 25,000 men in overcoming gallant serbian resistance paris nov i.—an athens despatch to the havas news agency dated sunday says the bulgarians have suc ceeded in occupying part of veles situated on the right bank of the vard ar notwithstanding the heroic resist encc of the serbians according to salonika advices the other part of the town remains in the hands of the serbians the losses are placed at 24,000 men there have been no important en gagements on the french front gen eral sarail commander-in-chief in spected the anglo-french lines from gieveli to krivolak including demir kapu which are strongly fortified . the allies continue to land forces at salonika constantine favors allies realises that the tide is turning against the teutons athens oct 30 despatches indi cate that k'ng constantine realizes that the tide is turning towards the allies and again it would be no sur prise if despite the threats of ' the kaiser when roumania marches greece will be found fighting on the side of the allies joffre's visit to london cements the two allies the times says it resulted in a more complete accord on matters of pol icy between britain and france and led to agreement as to balkan sit uation i ondon nov 1 the times asserts that joffre's visit to london was primarily concerned with the problems connected with the balkan situation and that in that respect he did valuable work a complete and definite under standing both as to broad outlines of military policy and details says the times was reached the precise charact er of which of course remains secret it may be said however the paper continues that the british and french governments are working in full accord and are now agreed upon the main principles of their joint policy in the balkans and the necessity of giving rapid help to the serbian army which will be kept constantly in the forefront the times expresses the hope that gen joffre will pay further visits to england as the recent one had result ed in strengthing the sense of touch between the two armies and had given promise of closer co-ordination mmmmmm british troops engaged in the fighting in serbia london nov i . the british expe ditionary force in serbia received its baptism o fire on the gievgelidorian front where according to a times de spatch from athens it took part in the recent fighting first nfld regiment some of ours in camp in great britain hears j o'neil farrell sing till the boys come home fflnklfer will send money but not troops japan outlines manner in which she can aid the allies paris nov i.—while japan will be unable to send troops tp the european theatres of war she will gladly assist the entente allies as far as she can fi nancially and lend them the support of her arsenals according to count ocuma premier who was interviewed at tokio by the matin's correspond ents mmmmmm miss f.mblen who has concluded her engagement at the brilish thea tre last wcf4 left by last evening's rxprcss for boston viscount milner scores faults and blunders says there has been too much con cealment of these shortcomings avid that britain can never hope to win unless she gives them that publicity which will ensure their correction ondon nov i.—speaking at can terbury last night viscount milner who recently raised a stir in the house of lords by suggesting the withdrawal of troops from gallipoli denounced the policy of secrecy which he declar ed had characterized the conduct of the war up to the present if he said such grave faults and blunders as the delay in providing shells and the barefaced attempt to conceal blunders in the dardanelles and the failure of our policy in the balkans—if things like these were al lowed to be glosccd over we must not expect we should not deserve to see our affairs more wisely conducted in the future i cannot understand how anybody can contemplate our failure to ade quately support serbia after what we promised to our belated attempt to buy help from greece by offering her pari of our possessions without a,sense of deep humiliation in order to win the war we have to be prepared for an effort far greater and sterner than we foresaw when the war began . to to v to vi f more bulgarians called to colors exempts must now take up arms serb position not desperate one daris nov i . a despatch from athens reports from constanti nople that the first division of turkish reservists which had been engaged on gallipoli peninsula has left for bul garia the bulgarian government has call ed to the colors all exempts of the class es from 1895 to 1904 operations in serbia are developing as expected the present plan of the germans and bulgarians is to cut off towards the south the line of retreat of the main serbian army of the north the object of the serbian headquart ers is to conduct that retreat in good order to the army's new line of de fences it is believed in greek military cir cles that while the position of the ser bian army is difficult it is not desperate sir charles tupper dies in england at age of 94 great canadian statesman hears last call—body to be brought to halifax for burial—succeeded in baronetcy by a grandson who is proceeding to the front attawa nov i.—sir charles tup per is dead a cable from sir george h perley london to sir robert borden an nounced the death this morning of sir charles tupper the body will be buri ed at halifax beside that of his wife charles steward tupper ot winni peg son of the late wimes stewart tupper and grandson of the late sir charles tupper succeeds to the baro netcy he is a son-in-law of dr chas morse registrar of the exchequer court ottawa and is about to leave for the front having obtained a commis sion in the cameron highlanders sir charles tupper's death occurred at boxley heath england at the age of 94 fi fa fa fa fa fa von tirpitz loses favor of kaiser amsterdam oct 31.—the rotter dam newspaper maasbodo says that admiral yon tirpitz the german minister of marine has fallen into disgrace with emperor william russians and rumanians in accord say reports agrees to cession of rumania of | certain parts of bessarabia and the rumanians are ready to permit army of half million russians to march thru to serbia kew york oct 30.—the london i correspondent of the herald cables under date of saturday : £ joffre came saw and conquered ejjigjand yesterday for after a long war council in which asquith kitch egcr lloyd george balfour and several distinguished english and french generals took part i am in formed a complete understanding was arrived at i am in a position to state that serbia will not be abandoned though she may suffer temporarily ay a result of the treachery of bul garia and the inactive policy of the k|ng of hellenes in the end the allies wll rescue her in this connection i am told there h#s been an effective yapproachment between russia and roumania and that the czar having agreed to con sent to the realization of roumania's national aspirations including the ces sion of certain portions of bessarab russian troops will march through roumanian territory to succor serbia ajjd that within a short time king ferdinand's fine army will support the quadruple entente cavell statue is decided on will be erected in close proxmnity to trafalgar square london nov 1.—twe government has given its consent to the erection of a statue of miss edith cavell on a site offered by the westminster city coun cil between the national portrait gall ery and st martin's church adjoining trafalgar square sir george j frampton the sculptor will execute the statue cavell execution horrifies france paris oct 31.—the senate on sat urday unanimously passed a resolut ion expressing its profound horror at the assassination of edith cavell the british nurse two inebriates created a disturb ance near hutching's st saturday night and for a time things looked lively the appearance of the police dispersed the combatants and the peo ple who had gathered as w'tnesses authorities devise a plan for labelling every briton armlets issued by the war office will show men who have volunteered and have been accepted as fit for the army who have been invalid ed out or who are physically unfit to serve i ondon nov i.—the unique and picturesque plan of labelling by means of khaki brassards bearing the royal crown those fit or unfit for mili tary service has been announced by the war office i he armlets which are being prepar be distributed soon as follows first to men who enlist and are placed m groups waiting the call to join the coiprs second to men who offer them selves for enlistment but are found physically unfit third to those who invalided out of the service as un likely for medical reasons to become efficient again the armlets for each class have a dis tinctive mark the kyle arrived at basque at 7.50 yesterday morning with he following passengers:—r walsh d steele c h.fkinch lieut d n westoff com mfr h bcckleshoff r a isn r miss yialatthcws miss e mcdonald rev j fend mrs nurse geo bell t m connolly and geo pike neutral freighters brought to halifax a dutch and a danish vessel seized by british warships halifax nov i.—two freighters the hamborn and hocking dutch arid danish vessels arrived today with prize crews from british warships in charge it is said both ships were stopped out side new york and ordered to halifax the dutch vessel has a full general cargo and the other ship is empty and had only two tons of coal in his bunker when reaching this port mmmmmm says french occupied the town op strumitza london oct 31.—the salonika correspondent of the weekly des patch under date october 28th says the french yesterday occupied the town of strumitza ? the battle began at five o'clock the previous evening and lasted till about 9 o'clock this evening the french drove the bulgarians six miles beyond strumitza it seems they are now more than twelve miles from the railway els3f » ■ f==lf==ll^s if ready-made ] * suits ] for men and boys » j in navy serge j und fancy tweeds v smart 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