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MONASTIR EVACUATED,
BY ORDER AND NOT THROUGH PRESSURE,
LONDON, December 3rd.
6.35 0410 The Times' Athens correspondent states that Monastir has fallen..
SALONIKA, December 3rd.
19.30 p.m. Router's correspondent learns from & reliable source that the Austro-German forces have entered Monastir and hoisted the Austrian flag.
It is expected that the Bulgariang will not enter the town for at least a day.
SALONIKA, December 3rd.. The Serbiane evacunted Monastir on Thursday evening by order and not under pressure from the Bulgarians.
BULGARIANS ENTER FALLEN
CITY
LONDON, December 4th,
The Daily Mail correspondent at Atliens has telegraphed that the Bul- garian forces entered: Monastir on the afternoon of December 3nd.
GERMANS CLAIM CAPTURE OF PLEVLIE.
Amsterdam, December 3rd.
1.55 p.m. The Germans claim the capture of the town of Plevlie in Montenegro.
GERMANS DISAPPOINTED, COPPER MINES DISMANTLED.
LONDON, December 3rd.
1.55" p.m.
HAVAL ACTIVITIES.
(THROUGH BEUTES'R AGENCY.]
RUSSIAN WARSHIPS
WATCHFUL,
ZURICH, December 4th. According to a Bukharest telegram, Russian warships aro oruising constantly off the Bessarabian const, and the shores of the Danube,
BRITISH WARSHIP
CONSTRUCTION.
A SIGNIFICANT REPORT.
LONDON, Docember 3rd. It is reported that the Admiralty has intimated to a number of shipbuilding. companies that they may complete the ordinary mercantile tonnage which has been left unfinished,
This is regarded as an indication that the programme of now warship construe tion has reached an advanced stage,
BRITISH STEAMER SUNK.
LONDON, December 4th. The British steamer Langtonhall · has been sunk. Part of the crew has been landed.
FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT
TTHROUGH. REUTER'N AGENCY.]
GENERAL JOFFRE'S
APPOINTMENT.
COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE NATIONAL ARMIES OF FRANCE,
PARIS, December 3rd. General Joffre has been appointed Com mander-in-Chief of the National Armies of France. This includes the Balkans, and, indeed, all French forces except. those under the Colonial Office,
AERIAL TORPEDOES. ⠀
1.35 1,
[TEHOUGH REUTER'S AGIMOR]]||
LINER REFLOATED,
December 3rd.
The Wilson liner Marengo, which wont ushore on the Goodwing, has been floated.
THE SUBMARINED COLENSO.
CREW ARRIVE AT MALTA,
Losdon, December 4th. The British steamer Colento, which was sunk on the morning of November 30th, was sunk apparently by the same sabmarine which torpedoed the Malinche and Tanis Ten minutes were given to abandon ship. The crew, numbering 22, reached Malta in nine boats on Thure day.
* KITANO MARU” ASHORE.
LONDOR, December 4th. The Japanese steamer Kitano Maru, from Yokohama to London, is ashore near Margate,
The Kitano Moru, owned by the Nippon Yasen Kaisha, sailed from Hongkong on October 31st.]
GENERAL SMITH-DORRIEN
SEES THE KING.
LONDON, December 3rd. General Sir H. Smith-Dorrien has had an audience with His Majesty the King,
SIR
PERTAB SINGH.
LEAVES FOR INDIA.
LONDON, December 3rd. Sir Portab Singh, who has been en active service at the Front, has left for India.
THE SILVER MARKET, NO SERIOUS SET BACK LIKELY
THE SERBIAN SOLDIER.
AN IDEAL FIGHTING MAN
WAB NEWS,
KAISER AND THE BAD DAYS.
It has been no uncommon thing in
The German Emperor, in thanking the Serbia this year, where Austrian pri- saners have boon employed as hospital Prussian Ministry of State for their con- orderlies or otherwise in company with gratulations in connection with the 500th Serbian soldiers, for the Austrians to anniversary of the Hohenzollern dynasty, come to the authorities with complaints express the hope that God will carry about the food." But," the authorities the German people through the sad days reply, “you get exactly the same as our of heavy trial to the bright sunlight of own soldiers. We know that,' Bay
pence." Central News, the Austrians, but the Serbians are used to it; they do not need to eat as much as we. From their point of view the Austrians had some reason for their romarkablo complaints; for one of the things about the Sorbian soldier is his capacity to live and fight gaily with practically nothing to eat.
The Serbians are pagnat people, strangers to luxury, and the Sorbian Army is a posant Army At the best of times the Serbian peasant's food is of the simplest, consisting of bread, some potatoes, earded milk and rarely-very rarely on occasional feast days and boli. days a little meat. Bread is the staff of life in Serbia in a very real sonse. For four years now Serbia has been al most continuously at war; and it has been difficult for the women folk-the men all being in the ranks-to keep up the ordinary agricultural operations. Serbia has become poor to a degree which the most congested districts of Ireland in years of bad crops hardly under stands; and the diet of the whole people, of the masses of countryfolk especially, has been more meagre than ever. Moro than ever a meal has been merely a chunk of bread, and course war bread, difficult for a foreigner to eat. There are thos who believe that it has been the broad which has caused most of the intestinal troubles from which British doctors and nurses have suffered in Serbia so severely this year; but the Serbian thrives on .
a country
SCHOOLED IN HARDSHIP. The Serbian soldier, then, has become inured to a life of extreme privation; and in the ighting of last winter it was his toughness and ability to stand hard- ship which more than anything else gave him advantage over the Austrians, LONDON, December 4th.
Again and again I have heard from Ser Messrs. Montagu's weekly report on bian officers the same story of how the silver market states that the prosent their mon having had nothing to eat reaction is mainly due to profit-making for, perhaps, two days, in PARIS, December 3rd.
by the Indian bazaars and also to a lull stripped of all eatables and mostly knee in the Continental demand.
Sudeep in mud, pushed on utterly careless There seems little rosson to anticipate of whether there was any commissariat or much of a set-back, for supplies are not, and imply hunted the Austrians day yet a seller of consequence. likely to be restricted, as Mexico is not and night without giving them a mo- ment's rest. Only mon of iron, to whom The approach of the Chinese New. semi-starvation had become almost the Year is usually s stiffening factor, while normal condition of their existenes, the Continental coinage demand is bound could have done what the Serbians did water fete dental then, to revive at any moment.
Apparently there is still a consider. It is not easy to convey to English able shortage of British silver.
readors the extent of the privations and the sadness of the loss of life, by war and by disease, to which Serbia has been subjected during these last years.
A communiqué states that the artillery dael has incresaed in intensity, while The Gormans have found the great The Germans shelled Arrae, and there
aerial torpedoes have been used in Artois, Serbian copper mines at Bor valueless, has been mine-fighting south of the Bom- They were furious when they observed me and at Eparges. that all the machinery, furnaces, und workshops had been blown up, and the mines completely flooded by the Serbians, who had carried off all the copper and movable machinery.
SERBIANS' STUBBORN
RESISTANCE.
PLUCKY STAND AGAINST OVER WHELMING, ODDS AT PRILEP.
PARIS, December 3rd.
165 pm.
A Salonika telegram gays that wounded Serbian officers from Monastir state that on November 25th and 26th, in the direc tion of Prilep and Dalenci, the Bul- garians and the Serbians fought for forty hours with unparalleled fierceness. Despite their numerical superiority, the Bulgarions were forced to retreat in the direction of Friley, but the next day they resumed the offensive and drove back the Serbians to Korassom, Four thou- sand Serbians hold up 26,000 Bulgarians, and three thousand others opposed ten thousand of the enemy to the south of Monestir.
AUSTBO-GERMAN TROOPS REACH BULGARIA.
ZURICH, December 4th. According to a telegram from Buk harest, sir thousand Austro-German troops are assembled at Rustchuk (a town on the Danube in north Bulgaria), where, also a Zeppelin has arrived.
PARIS, December 4th.
A telegram from Balonika states that the Eastern General Staff has received nows that Austro-German troops are moving towards Bulgaria,
ALLIES PRESSURE UPON GREEK COMMERCE.
FRENCH SILENCE GERMAN BATTERIES.
LONDON, December 4th. A Paris communique Bays:-Artillery actions continued. A small post which the Germans had surprised south of Lom- baertzyde was recaptured.
There has been mine and grenade fight ing over almost the entire front,
The French silenced the German bat- teries bombarding Thann
GENERAL.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGEHOT.]
RECALL OF GERMAN ATTACHES REQUESTED.
THE HAMBURG-AMERICAN LINE CONSPIRACY.
PORTUGAL'S POLICY. ASSISTANCE FOR ALLIES WHEN NECESSARY.
STRIKING
AT THE OF GERMANY.
HEART
AMERICAN SPECULATION ON ALLIES' GREAT PLAN.
A writer in the New York Times, dis cussing the possibility of invading Ger
many," says:--
Undoubtedly the Allies man to pre pare, and when prepared to hit, and to hit hard on the western coast of Ger- Many
Nor will any one who was in Serbia last spring and summer ever forget the pathos of the countryside, with its neglected roads (for there was no labour for road-wending) and untilled fields the women and little children and old men, who have been the only workers or the farms, and, above all, the dreadful black flags, warnings that someone had died there from typhus, which have seemed to hang at almost every cottage door and at every other house in towna and villages
AN IRISH TEMPERAMENT.
MORE GERMAN BRUTALITIES.
The Poperinghe Belgische Standard" learne from Antwerp that thirty German. soldiers who refused to go to the Cham pagne front have been exconted.
Before the execution of the architeob Brackolmans, his sister, a nus, asked for s last interview with him. She was made to wait ten minutes; then she was led before- the corpse of her brother, who had just been shot.
GERMAN FREACHERY IN BELGIUM.
According to the Echo Belye, some 4,000- Belgian ex-soldiers who, in terms of the order of the German authorities, reported themselves for registration at Brussels, wore arrested and sent to the military school pending their escort to Germany. The population of Brussels is greatly excited at this interpretation of the regis tration order.
THE PRINCE'S DILEMMA.
An amusing incident in connection. with the Prince of Wales' recent journey to England occurred at Boulogne.
Before embarking the Prince went into the post office to send several telegrams. He discovered, however, that he had for gotten his papers of identification which must be produced before a telegram accepted.
The clerk was firm, and insisted on the regulations being observed. The Prince tried to explain, but without avail, and: it was only when a member of his suite arrived and satisfied the clerk's doubts
telegrams, that His Highness was able to file kis
THE KING AND A V.C.
A BEDSIDE CEREMONY, In the hospital train in France King. George, though lying holpless in bed, pluckily determined personally to invest is soldier with the V.C. The soldier was Lance-Sergeant Oliver Brooks, of the Coldstream Guards, who won his deepra- on October 8.
The new .C. was conducted to the hospital train at →→→, and was taken to the side of the bed on which the King. was lying. He knelt on the floor of the saloon and bent over his Majesty. Even so, the King found that he had overrated his strength and could not manage to get the pin through the thick khaki, Assist
ce had to be given before the ceremony could be completed.
HOW
NEWSPAPERS” ARE MADE
IN PRUSSIA:
"Centra!
The Vorwurta publishes, with scathing. Yet the Serbian's laughter-loving dis- comment, a secret communication sent out "The writer knows that elaborate position has remained unspoiled. The on April 19th last by the Prussian Minis plans for such an attack have been sub- one discovery which every Briton wheter of the Interior to the local administra mitted to the Admiralty Departments of goce to Serbia soon makes for himself is tive officials all over Prussia. It contains Great Britain and France, and that that the Forbian is absurdly hike the full details of a careful scheme for the WASHINGTON, December 3rd. high naval experts have expressed their Irishman. The two master-words in the better control of the Press in the interests
10.25 p.m.
conviction that a successful assault could Serbian tongua to-day are "nema, which of the Government. The Prussian officials It is understood that Mr. Lansing has be delivered, and an army put asherė. means No thoro isn't any and are informed that they must increase their informed Count Rarnstoff that Captain It is clear that an assault on the "dobra," which meas
"good.
"Nema" | efforts to control the Press, and especially Boyed, the German Naval Attaché, is Emden-Wilhelmshaven Peninsula would is the result of the last four years of the small local newspapers, "the attitude persuna non grata as a result of his strike almost at the very heart of Ger- privation.. There isn't any it of which has a very great influence upon connection with the conspirators on the many. It would be more than a flanking true of alust everything. The visitor the feeling in the country and upon the Hamburg-American Line, four of whose operation; it would attack the Germans grows accustomed to going down a street results of future elections." They are tol officials have just been convicted of sin the rear. Such a move would have to of shops and asking everywhere for some that the methods hitherto employed by the conspiracy to violate American neutrality be met, for an advanos along the Em simple article, and everywhere meeting Government do not assure the exercise of Valley would messes the Krupp work with the same reply, "Nema." At the
Ita laws by supplying German warships.
BLATER. at Essen, and to meet the move Germany smallest excuse 36 Dobra "follows. Every permanent political influence. Department has requested the recall of forces from their present theatres of wounded or ill, awaiting his turn to be ment will control, through
It is officially announced that the State would have to divert a portion of her thing is good." You ask the soldier, announced that henceforward the Gavera- the German Attaches Boyed and von action.
admitted to the hospital, how he is, and Bureau for the German Press," a number Papen because of their objectionable "As to the outcome of an notual assault before you ask know that the answer will of nowo agencies, and will supply a greatly motivities in connection with military on the German coast, those who object be Dobra," and that it will be accom-improved and very cheap service. point to the lesson of the Dardanelles, panied by a smile. You tell the un- There is to be a daily news" service sup and naval matters."
The Dardanelles, taught no lesson. It is wounded man that the Germans are piled for 10. a month! The Press is also no part of the plan of the Allied Ad coming, outnumbering the Serbian to be offered, almost free of cost, ready- iralties to build a lot of Queen Eliza armies by three to one, to wipe Serbia | made newspapers, to which they have beths, Barhams, Malayas, and Warspites, and the Serbiang off the map, and he only to add the title and any local news and send them over to be sunk off Heligo- laughs a carefree laugh, and his eyes or advertisements with which they can fill
twinkle as he tells you Dobra."
the front pages. The text of these produc SPECIAL INSTRUMENTS.
There is also a third muster-word in tions" will be carefully watched and am LISBON, December 3rd. The new Government have met Parlia What is believed to be the case is that the language, which is
and phatically influenced by the officials in How," that the Ministry of the Interior; and it is care PARIS, December 4th."
ment and announced their intention of the Admiraltits are constructing instru- that, alas! upon abstaining from party politics, and folments fit to grapple with the most power. beautiful indefinite time when everything
is going to be done that ought to be done will be able to save from 60 to 70 per cent. lowing a purely national policy, always ful const defences,
A high naval authority gives it as to-day. That also is very Irish. But in of the cost of production, and will also be giving any assistance that may be neces sary for the victory of the Allies. his considered opinion that there is no the Serbian case it is chiefly the result
inherent and essential reason why the of 400 years of Turkish rule; for con almost entirely relieved of the need for The Forwarts points out that the Prus HORSE-BREEDER'S GIFT TO attack from sex should not be more taries during which procrastination and employing editorial staffs,
powerful than the land defences, pro- indirection have been the guiding prin vided only that the resources of the ciples of all policies and all adminissian Government is thas carefully prepar ing to control future elections during attacking party are preponderantly trative acts,
a period in which the Press is defenceless, greater than those of the defenders. Any EVERYBODY A SOLDIER, gun, howitzer, er rife, that can be It is impossible to think of the Ser because it is not allowed to discuss con- mounted can be foated, and when floated bian man except as a soldier; and that troversial political subjects of any kind.
LONDON, December 4th
The Government has accepted the offer has the advantage of superior mobility is the chief weakness of Serbia's military of Colonel Hall Walker to present his If a Gruson battery is to be attacked, position to-day. She has no News has reached London that Ad-famous racing stud, including the well the plan is to bring up the nearest ap. Her entire fighting strength, almost her Bairal Troubridge, who commanded the known stallions White Eagle and Royal proach to a Gruson battery to attack it manhood strength, is already in the ranks. British gunners at Belgrade, has reached Realm, free to the nation, on condition Instead of eight 15-in. gang mounted at Only in Vish, in connection with the that the Government purchases the siten height of thirty or forty feet on a Government offices does one se any num- at the Government's valuation. $15,000,000 or 820,000,000 battleshi with ber of males of military age who are not The stud is estimated to be worth sheer sides that cannot be missed, and in uniform, grey or khaki, with the little TURKISH WORKS SEVERELY £200,000 at ante-war prices, but Captain manned by more than 1,000 men, the plan Serbian service cap, like a khaki glor Greer, the Senior Steward of the Jockey is that gans of the largest calibre, of garry without the tails, set jauntily Club, values it at £90,000 in the present direct and indirect fire, he mounted and on the head, and the queer heelless mo slump conditions,
floated singly on a structure affording chesin-like laced footgear, which looks full armoured, protection, with no sheer first austar, but which is excellently sides, and appearing only a couple of adapted to the rough hills and muddy feet above the water line
valleys which make the Serbian soldiers battlefieldTimes
It is understood that the Allies have re-established the restrictions Greek commerce in view of the "tergiver sation of the Greek Cabinet."
THE NEAR EAST.
(THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY, ]
ADMIRAL TROUBRIDGE REACHES SCU CARI,
Seutari.
DAMAGED.
PARIS, December 3rd,
* 1:56 nm. Considerable artillery duels aro ro ported from the Dardanelles, where the weather is milder. Turkish works were severely damaged.
PERSIAN AFFAIRS.
TURKISH AND GERMAN MINIS TERS AT LOGGERHEADS.
PETROGRAD, December 3rd.
NATION.
A FAMOUS RACING STUD,
LONDON, December 3rd.
The acceptance of the offer means that the Government will initiate State horse breeding, as conducted for many years in France, Russia, Germany and Austria." The stud would otherwise have been sold to-day.
SOUTH AFRICAN CONTINGENT
INSPECTION BY QUEEN MARY LONDON, December 3rd. Her Majesty the Queen, on behalf of It is reported from Teheran that the King, has inspected at Borden Camp differences have occurred between the the South African contingent which pocs Turkish and German Ministers, the to the front next week. Her Majesty former complaining of being made the was greatly pleased with the ɓre appear
auce of the men, tool of Germany.
Segregation, not aggregation, is the idea. There would be no costly engines, for speed would not be an essential. Fifty auch structures would cost less than a bat leship. It must be remembered that they are in no way intended to supersede any other form of warship; they are designed solely ne instrumente of attack
The new taxation which the Germans are imposing on Belgium amounts to 40,000,000 francs, payable in monthly in stalments. The first instalment must be paid before December 10th.
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