St. John's Daily Star, 1915-11-04

              the st john's daily star newfoundland volume 1 thursday november 4 1915 t no 168 large allied force lands at salonika to help the serbs also land men at kavala transports arriving daily at the two greek ports on the aegean and the troop are being rushed north to reinforce the serbians whose main army is executing'a successful re treat-roumania regarded as fav oring russians who are gaining important successes - russ-victory onthestripa iondon nov 3—the vigorous sup vort which asquith and briand have promised to is semmingly about to be realized jfßesides the anglo 1 rench british cav alry who already are in southern rbia british andjt french transports arrive daily at salonika the troops i them are being sent up country liateiy to attempt to check the mi march from'veles toward rtastir other transports have landed troops at kavala on the aegean sea near bulgarian border at the same time diplomats their effores to xv ol greece and rou or serbis who fought with them in their las balkan war grows more critical as time passes serbia's position storws more critical the austro-gei drive from is proceed wly but sfpely while two bul armies ail approaching nish a'hich place the serbian gov rrtent has moved to mistrovitza montenegrian frontier the are hghtinr stern defensive bat ' '. . v n cerman accounts it is appar ' their armies are mak od their rjjtreat leaving as the russians did in fealicia and poland v little 1 here is ho farther news of the r . in expedition several days ago ted off varna the opinion is the entente allies countries iimania where there is con agitation o favour of inter on their side will allow the ol emperbr nicholas to move oss her territc.y influence i this decision*is reached it is ieved it willi be influenced by the \ of the russian army in gal wiiere according to russian of reports genl tvanoff has won i another victory over the i eutons on i the stripa river further north in volhienia also is heavy fighting the russians claim to have checked an austro-german offensive whxh had for its object the capture of czar torysk in fact all along the eastern front the russians according to the german official report are making a series of attacks from the gulf of riga to roumania it is admitted that the germans were compeled to withdraw their lines in the lake district but other russian attacks were claimed to have been re pulsed in the west unfavourable weather is interfering with operations both british and french submarines are now in the sea of ' marmora where the french submarine turquoise was recently sunk by the turks big new vote for the war is presaged london nov 3.-—another vote of credit will be introduced into the commons next week announcing this fact today the premier d!d not mention the amount it is expected to be 250,000,000 or 1,250,000,000 german paper sees prospect of big famine fears that germany is facing a short age of the necessary food supplies geneva nov 3.—owing to the high price of food in germany neu trals are leaving the country for switzerland under the heading can we hold out the neuve zeitung says hardly had we 1 crossed the treshold of the second year of war when the question became another an xiety then faced us namely the dear ness of first necessities in the matter of food will our enemies succeed in defeating germany by famine m a «** t ** *'\ bound to thjs port easington is missing london nov 3.—the british steam er easington sydney n s sept 24 for st john's is posted at lloyds as missing ***** zaimis defeated in greek house and wil l resign paris nov 4—the zaimis govern ment was defeated in a discussion of foreign policies in parliament today and is expected to resign says a havas despatch from athens a discussion of proposed mili tary laws one correspondent says raised a question between the mm mister of war and the majority party of former premier venize los on this issue premier zaimis decided to ask a vote of confidence the discussion then turned to the foreign policy of the government m venizelos declared it was im possible for his party longer to sus tain a government whose policy he considered harmful to the in terests of the country all party leaders engaged in the discussion the final vote was 147 against the government to 114 french victory in the kameruns paris nov 3.—additional victories for the french in kamerun are an nounced a french column in kam erun captured on october 25th ci post on the sonde-durda-yaunde railway the enemy loss was heavy the french loss air.ong liuropeans was light twenty six nat ve were killed and seventy nine wounded con tinuing their march the french took eseka on oct 30 the railway which had been partial ly destroyed by the enemy ha completely repaired read the daily star canadians get lost colt gun back from air machine gun lost at ypres conies down in one of the german aeroplanes > london nov 3.—ln one of the bat tles around ypres the 13th battalion of canadians lost a cold machine gun recently a german aeroplane was brought down within the british lines fionl having a pilot and observer both dead and tjie lost machine gun on on board the aero fell only twenty yards from the trenches then occupied by the 13th battalion yon hindenburg withdraws lines berlin nov 3.—the war office an nounced to-day that marchal yon hindenburg has been forced to withdraw his lines between seventen and islem lakes on the north end of the russian frontier french force hastens to join the serb army latter are resisting the bulgars des perately in the voles region french hold strongly entrenched position—british expedition effects a junction with the french daris nov 4 the first british con tingent arrived on friday at guev gueli in the serbian theatre according to despatches filed on saturday at sal onika but delayed the british force will act as a separate unit but in co llaboration with the french troops guevgueli is just across the greek border 40 miles northwest of salon ika general sarrail commander of the allies expeditionary forces in serbia returned friday from a hasty inspect ion of the front from guevgueli to krivolak he was favorably impressed with the french positions which are strongly held on the heights of bab rovo gradek domir and kapou the french forces advancing north west from the greek frontier have not yet effected a junction with the hard pressed serbian army in the vicinity of veles the fighting in this district has been desperate and the serbs once recaptured veles after it had fallen to the bulgars only to lose it again on october 31 swede helps huns who want to see peace count erensward lends support to a movement to secure cessation of hostilities rome nov 3.—the messagero as serts that count ebrensward swedish minister to switzerland it taking a principal part on behalf of these germans who favor peace negotiat ions in an effort to bring them about the mesagero says the count some time ago organized a league of neu tral states for defence and that these interests are now using their influence in favour of peace counting on the support of switzerland tiber river overflows and rome faces floods rome nov 3.—rome is again threatened with floods following the experience of last'winter when tke tiber overflowed its banks with un precedented frequency thus far no loss of life is reported bulgarians still make strenuous attempts to surround serbs gradually closing up the avenue by which the serbians must withdraw their troops—threat of attack from the rear throws people of monastir inio a panic—heavy fight ing continues london nov 4.—the gradual en veloping movement whereby the austro-germans and bulgarian's hope to surround the retreating serbian army and cut off its line of retreat in to m.ontenegro is brought into clearer view by despatches printed in the morning papers if berlin telegrams received by way of amsterdam are correct the bul garians now are threatening pristin which proves an opening into monten egro probably less than seventy miles wide for serbian retreat at the other end of their long crescent-shaped front the bulgarians are within sight if nish from the top of the water shed between the svrljig and nishave river 12 miles from nish on the plesh mountain they are within gun shot of the nish electric works at svetapetka in the valley below heavy fighting is reported near bela planks a little further east in centre of crescent the threatened bulgarian advance from veles towards monastir has been arrested by the timely arrival of the allied reinforcements but the news of a bulgarian column creeping around by way of kalkandelen and krusheve to take monastir in the rear has thrown the inhabitants of that city into a fresh panic the most important feature of the austro-german advance is considered to be 1 the strengthening of their hold on the western morava by the capture of usice on the railroad which is the chief trans-serbian line usice and prisbna may be regarded as the northern and southern points of the pincers which the enemy are en deavoring to close en the serbian army u s representative is leaving belgium washington nov i—brand whit lock american minister to belgium has cabled the state department that he was preparing to return to the for a vacation on account of ill health is i y hun steamer souz torpedoed by british london nov 3.—a despatch to the exchange telegraph company from copenhagen says the german steamer souz was sunk by a british submarine yesterday off karlskrona sweden in the baltic the crew landed in sweden today one man was wounded by a shell splinter huge german submarine had but a brief career latest type of u-boat 250 feet long and very well armed was captur ed by the british a few hours after leaving her base says the daily post liverpool nov 3.—the daily post published the report of the capture of one of germany's latest super-submar ines 250 feet long carrying in addi tion to torpedo tubes four guns of fairly large calibre the submarine was launched at stettin a fortnight ago the post states that within a few hours after leaving the base she was caught in one of those traps that we have so skilfully laid for these craft somewhere in the german ocean the crew are said to have been made prisoners british steamer sunk london nov 4 the british steam er friargate 264 tons gross has been sunk five survicors have been landed dj stan martin | weds in u s a his bride a former nurse at the st anthony hospital i special to the st john's daily star jjoulton me nov 4.—miss mar garet rogers daughter of l a rogers of topsham me was married to dr stanley h martin of st john's nfld here last night dr martin has been associated with dr grenfell medical missionary to labrador for the past few years * the bride has been connected with a mission at st anthony nfld for nearly two years after studying in hospital in new york and boston dr and mrs martin sail november 30th for korea to enter missionary work dr martin's intimate association with the famous medical missionary has made him prominent in new york greece determined to remain neutral not anxious fight huns will only take up arms against bul garia if the latter threatens her in any way—germans fails persu ade greeks to withdraw the facili ties granted the allies—anglo french forces designed to prevent the successful march of huns to constantinople daris nov 4.—an athens despatch to the havas agency says king constantine and the greek government considering the situation from a strict ly military viewpoint are firmly resolv ed not to launch out on an adventure che result of which is far from clear they are determined to avoid a con flict with the central powers in other words greec*e will take up arms against bulgaria only if she finds herself in any way threatened by the latter but greece if she fights intends to do so on her own account but not on that of either of the european groups the german efforts to induce greece not to give facilities to the entente powers so far have failed greek popular sentiment favors the allies in general and france in parti cular but the people have no desire to plunge their country into the hor rors of war the last struggle in the balkans is still present in their mem ory they regard bulgaria as their hereditary enemy but have implicit con fidence in the king to do the right thing at the right time the situation in macedonia certain ly causes anxiety but that anxiety is diminished by the presence of the alli ed troops which are considered a guar antee against bulgarian invasion the point of view in official circles is that the landing of the allies in macedonia was not effected with the object of serving greek efforts but of stopping the german advance on con stantinople a vital question for the allies kitchener was asked to enlist nov 3.—field marshal kitchener early this week received one pi lord derby's invitations which are b£ing largely circulated among men of ntilitary age to join the army ithis amazing blunder was disclosed by lord derby himself who while ad dj£ssmg a meeting of middle aged re cruits said that nobody should be sur pl'sed if they received invitations as w had been actually sent to the of war use of kavala by the allies good strategy terminus of three important high i ways and will necessitate new bulgar moves jjndon nov 3.—reports of the of allied troops at kavala aiie hailed here the operation is con sidered to be an excellent piece of of fensive strategy .. vkavala not only is z great tobac port for turkey but it the termin of three important highways by or|e of which the greek in 1913 out fla iked the bulgarians and forced them to retire out of mecedonia and visually the war the occupation of kavala by the entente allied troops will necessitate it is believed hero several new dis tinct defensive concentrations by the bulgarians sir f e smith succeeds carson london nov 3.—george cave unionist member of parliament has appointed solicitor general succeeding sir frederick 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