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THE HONG KONG TELEGRAPH.

DIPLOMACY AND BATTLE IN THE BALKANS.

WITH AN ACCOUNT OF ITALY'S CAMPAIGN,

[By Frank H. Simonds in- the Amrican Review of R views]

Continued from last weeks)

Bazar

EXTRA

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1916

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“It seemed tha: I had no sooner

To prevent such a retreat the be driven out of Serbia. Thus by Austrisa defenses. There was home. There is much bitterness Balgars early occupied Uskab they were seeking to me Salanica little chance to blast away in London and Paris over all this struck the watze than the sub- and pushed up into the Kachanik as a possible part of embarkation, through this barrier there was There is a lurking muspicion that mazine appeared under the bows pass, where they were halted, and as the British had used. Caruana none to force it. Slow, steady Italy may yet desert her friends as of our ship. On her deck I wer attempted to reach Monserr both century before, when Marshal pressure, the capture of a summit she deserted her allies of the antea number of men, with an officer, by the Vales and Tetovo roads. Soalt's army had driven Sir John here, a trench there difficult bellum days, if she gete a proper whom I took to be an Austrian. On the former they were halted Moors to the sea and slain the and tedious effat, bot to break price. But there is small reason. The submersible had her collap

through, but on this front merely to attach importance to this be sible lifeboat out, and the sub- about Tetovo, in the latter at Ba- gallant commander,

To bring Constantine to reason, to dig in so firmly that if the cause neither Germsar por Au+marine crew were pulling people bugs, north of Prilip. Bat by

curving the city of Uskab and Kitchener was reported to bare Germans should join the darts can afford to give Italy all she out of the water on to her dedk the Vardar Valley from Veles gone to the Near East, carrying trians in a drive into Italy, the desires, or enough to satisfy her. The officer was bolding up his I have not attempted to analyse hands, shouting to the people in north to Kumanovo, above Uzkub, an ultimatum which amounted to Italian position would hold. This they closed the roads from nor the threat to remove the Hellenic was and is the Italian campaign the military operations of the the water to be calm. I be thera Serbia and blocked the King from his throne if he refus Remember that this frontier was Italians in detail, because they him say in perfect English: For allel passes there was route way of the Allies. Unless this ed to consent to permit Allied and traced by Austrian military en- show little of interest, despite God's sake, go back to your ship. through the old Sanjak of Novi- wedge was removed, there could Serb troope to retire through gineers intent on keeping for some spectacular fighting in the We are not, murderers.

be no fanction in Sorbis tween Greek territory, if necessary, and Austria every military vantage mountains. All reports agree VL The Serbian Campaign.

Up to the moment when this is the Serb and the Anglo-Franch declined to renounce his reported point, and the taak is appreciated that in the past month the Italians Saved When Near Exhaustion

project to intern these troops Batween the Adriatic and the have made" beroic attacks along Turning now to the actual written the Serbians have succeed-foroes

Isonzo, the Isongs, the greatest stort în **By this time I had worked my operations in the Balkans, it ised in evading the pot, but the Bul-

The problem for the Anglo- The presence of German officer mountains, along the

diatrics of re- their war so far, but for the ordin-way some distance from the ship, necessary first to fix in mind the game, ustrians, and Gernans, French forces was twofold. They in Athens, the decision of the River, there is a main geographical feature of the have joined bands. The Orient were constrained to push north as King to prorogue Parliament latively level character perhaps y observer the real Italian pro and seeing one of the lifeboat asar, I held up my hand and call- campaign, which has two separate Railway line is open. The first soon sa possible to remove the decision acted upon after Verize thirty miles broad. This is the gress an only be apparent when phases, one supplied by the Ger- purpose of the Germans is aahier wedge at Uskab, to check the ad- los had upset the Zsimis Ministry. Gorizia frouk Here the Elians Gazisia has fallen and the Italianed for help. The people in the man advance in the north, the ed. Recall the Belgian campaign vance from Vales upon Monastir,added to Allied anxieties. To could undertake precisely the anon are playing spoo the forts bost responded, and, after a se other by the Allied advance in the and it will be seen that precisely but they had als to deal with the demands Greece is now re-operation the Franch have rice of Trieste, and that time is still, it cond attempt, ancceeded in throw

ing a line to me, when I was all south. For the first phase the main as the Germans there undertook Bulgarian attacks coming was: ported to have bored, an I close attempted in Champagne. By would spem, far off

bat exhausted. geographical details are simple. to open a road through Belgium, over the mountains and striking this review; but at the same time concentrating heavy artillery here

Boughly speaking the first Ser- to France, they have been under at the Vardar Vallar line from Venizelos, declaring that there is they might hope to blast a way ..

for constitutional into Aus ria. In the mouth of bian field of operations may be taking in Serbia to open a road to the Greek frontier to Vale At no chance represented by the figure of four Bulgaria and thence to Constan- Stramaitea, not far from the government, has advised his fol- November they made the greatest A SUBMARINE INCIDENT city blocks out by a north sad-tinople. As in Belgian they Greek line, Balgar teritory was lowers to abstain from taking part of their many attempta, driven by wath avenue, and an ess-and- have succeeded in opening the but a dozen miles from the rail in the new election, fired for Allied urgings, to exset a pos December 19, and the laat real sure that would prevent the Apa west street. The north-and-south road, but the Serbians have so far ad. avenue is the valley of the Morava eluded them, as did the Belgisma.

hope of Greek participation on trians from detaching troopa to leading from the Danube wouth What remains now to be settled

the Allied side seems to have help the Germans in Serbia.

But despite the repeated attae'cs, towards Salonica and the Aegean.is whether the Serbians, like the

vanished, and with its disappear- Something less than a third of the Belgians, will escape and join

ance London and Paris, particular--and the Austrians conce le that distance between thees two points, their allies, having lost most of

ly the latter, display new appre both infantry and artillery have this north-and-south avenue is their country, or whether they

hension and fresh fear of royal played a desperate part,-Gorizia

is not been taken, the Austrian Turkish sabmarine stopped the crossed by the east-and-west will be gathered in the net.

treachery and Hellenic betrayal.

line has bold, the Italians have. British passenger ship Brulas in street, leading along the valley of

been checked with lossss estimat the Mediterranean and, after the western branch of the Morava, from the Bosnian frontier to the vicinity of Nish, and then continu-

west of Sofia.

by the Orient Railway, leading from Austria to Crastantinople, the railroad by which Germany means to manition her Tarkish ally and send the offisera and

equipment needed to easble & Turkish army to begin operatione against Egypt.

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Before farming to the second phase, it is necessary to record the fact that Serbian resistance has #gain supplied one of the

Up to November 17 the Anglo- French forces had covered about half the distance to Uskab, sisad- ily driving in the Balgar raiders The Serbs were still holding the heights above Veles and the French patrols were about the town, which was still in Balgar hands. The Allied adrance was

VII. What of Italy?

the

Mrs. Martin Bgan an Fye- Witness

New York, Novembre 23.--

Shot from Submarine.

Sailor

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The first of the panic over, ws rewed back to the Barnlos and. were taken aboard. · Women and children, many in a half-drowned. state, were crowding the deck, af the submarine, which remained. slongside. When all the rescind were returned to the Baralos, s toll showed that twenty-five were mising fourteen children, seven women and four men. Two of the men wäre British sailors from the Sailor Prince, who lost their ves diving overboard, with their mates reaming children, -

*In addition to the twenty-five

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Heartreading Scenes.

*** Don't mind ms. I belong to

20 one and have no one to care for me. Halp some one else.”

** With these words she passed the rope to another women 208, with her babe in her arms, sank- from sight,

thus slow but sure tad Allied For several months now one ofed by the Austrians at 150,000, twenty-five persons had bewa

steadily the most familias questions in the Already the fary of the attack is drowned, assisted in rearning | drowned, many were wounded in - numbers were very ing along the valley of the Balmost splendid pages in the his mounting Within the next few❘rsage of war interrogation has dying out. Italy has gained many of the 239 passengers who the panic. Several of the most gadian Morays to the Bulgarian | tory of the Great War. À strug" || ¿sya-the fate of the Balgar wedge been, "Has Italy done anything?" treochas, as France did în Cham- had gone overboard in a panic serious were taken into the sub- frontier east of Pirot and north-gle to extermination has been mart be decided. If the Germans All over the world the impression pague, although she has taken no The story is sold by Mrs. Eleanor marine and treated by our ship such bag of guns and prisoners; Franklin Egan (wife of Mr. Ma doctor, who went aboard at the fought. Not slone man, but we can get troops south from Nish to has gained ground that

tin Egan, formerly editor of the invitation of the submarine.com- The Austro-German operation men and children, have shared in Jakub before the French and Italian campaign has not merely bat the Isoras line has held.

If Taly could get Gonzia and Manila Times) an eyewitness, mandec was, undertaken to open that the contest. A struggle of the British get up, then the Allies been a failure, but something of the Gara hills south of it the who arrived to-day on the steam- portion of the svenne between the old-fashioned sort has been waged will fail in their effort to form a farce. Danube and Nish and that portion everywhere save in the broad junction with the Serba to the Failure it has been, but hardly would be in possession of the key ship New York

The Barulos, according to Mrs. of the street between Nishand Bul-valleys, where German heavy aortheast and open a way for them a farce. Even the failure his to Trieste which could not long

Montfacode, Egan, who is a waiter returning

"Mrs. Egan said she witnemeki garia. This is the routs followed artillery overpowered the defen- to retire into lower Serbia. Bat coms for reasons that are wholly hole out From

ders. The cost to the Germans if the Anglo-French forces arrive explicable. When the Great War which the Italians hold, Trieste from a six monthe trip through in lirea bas been tremendous. first, then the Balgar forces began, the treach conflict was is but twenty miles distant, in Southern Europe, left Piraeus for many heartrending scenes. Serbia has been fighting a na-stretched our like an a between andreamed of, and for the first plain sight of the Italian soldiers. Alexandria on October 20. Al-Ona woman,” she said, “ who Bat at this point Italy has only though the ship few the British had lost her three children by sonal Thermopyl-such a fight the closing jaws of Secb and Al-six weeks the lines swayed back- as she fougat and lost against the lied troops will be removed and ward and forward as of old, only s bare foothold on the Cars flag her crew was Greek, the throwing them overboard, weat the Tark fire ontories and a half the Bulgarian troops to the west in size was the campaign differ platean, behind Trieste, and passengers, a majority third class, stark mad. In the steerage was ago, at. Kossaro, hard by the about Kachanik and Tetovo will eat Bat in mid-September the across this plates she has been being chiefly Greeks sad Orient a troop of Japanses acrobats. my!sis. When about five hours One of them, a woman with an present fighting front.

themselves be cut off and destroy- German took to the trenches in unable to advanos The German plan was: South

od.

Champagne, and, having taken manths. In a word, we have south of Crete the ship picked up infant child was seen simont exs along the brosé Moravs valley VIL The Allied Advance A close-drawn race seems into the trenches, they have stayed on another deadlock, wholly three boats containing the crew of hansted trying to sling to the sides of the ship. She wIS SUZ- from Belgrade and Samendris tõs

Anosher figure serves to illas evitable, with the chances about there ever since and practically similar to that in France, says the British sex-nship

was thrown into ber hands, but main army under MacksasGH WE

trate the second phase in the Sorerea, but, if anything, favouring on the lines they originally laid that the country is more difficult Prince, which had been saak by rounded by many others. A zope looking up the exclaimed in sent East along the Serbian bian campaign supplied by the the Bulgars, who hare been in down in the Battle of the Aisne and, the Austrians, unlike the a submarine a few hours before.

English: Morava, following the roste we Allies. On the map Serbia sag skab for two wooks and have and the succeeding phases which Germana, are close to their base.

The extent of frost on which have called a street, an Austrian goste in appearance the outline of had plenty of time so entrench. extended to Flaniere. army was seat, moving at right an hourglass. A little more than On the other hand they are in- In the Italian campaign the war troops can manoeuvre is very re

The Baraloa, Mr. Egan said, angles to Mackensen sad designed two-thirds of the distance between farior in artillery to the French started in the trenches. Auaris, tricted and the advantage of name to join hands with him. Weat

the Hangarisa and Greek froad can only get ammmition over long aware of the menace of bars, which lies heavily with the carried only four lifebats, each along the other end of this street ters the country contracts to 3 mountain roada. So far the Italian preparation, began early to Italians, is small value, for the with a capacity for thirty personE. from Bulgaria came a Bulgar width of less than a hundred Anglo French force has been uni- construct trenches along her whole relatively small force employed by The picking up of the crew of the army aiming at Nish. Finally miles. Actually the whole doan-formly successful against the western frontier, from Switzerland the Austrians is sufficient to hold Sailor Prines orested a feeling of excitement which was at fever below Nish the southern half ofury is narrowed to a single g*P Balgars, inflicting very hears to the Adriatic. For months the their short lines

The Italian failure, therefore, in hest when suddenly a submarine he avenue was occupied by a between the eastern and western losses. But the real crisis of the work went on. Toas when Italy

Balgar army coming over mountains. At this

*P campaign has only just been at last struck, she ran her head neither surprising nor unexpected came to the surface shout two tains and thus closing center all the roads coming reashed and the Anglo-French instantly against long lizes of A socies would have been miles distant and fired a shot line of retreat down from the south and the north. forces are still forsy miles south prepared position, such as those marvelonafest and there has been over the Barulce, evidently se

major succes. Italy has igual for ber to stop. and similarly Here, too, is U-kab, the capital of the town shey must reach and in France and Belgium had be no

*Instantly a wild panic brake, cutting off Bay Allied of the ancinut Sorbian Empire. hold if the Serbian retreat is to be come. Bha was halted. She has served the Allied cause by exerte advance to Serbian aid up this -If Uskuh wete în hostile hands sasured. The Baigerians are made no real progress since, but ing premore on a new front and loose," said Mrs. Egan.

it would be impossible for the again reported in fetovo, and in a period twice as long her occuping some hundreds of thon- four lifebate of the Baralos were

-“I did not learn her name or The Serbe, taking their stand northern half of the country to their captures of Babuas Pass British and French allies have ands of Austrian troops, which resting in their chocks, while south of the Danube, wars faced communicate with the southern, and Prilep are newly rumored. made no progress against far less might otherwise have been used swinging alongside were the two with Mackensen'a sitack coming for the only roads all converge ai One consequence of the opening naturally strong works in Fear in Rusais or Bezbis; she has oon boats in which the men from the designating number, but she was dne south on their front. Their this point. Two of these roads phases of the campaign has been In the very first days of the tributed materially to the work Sailor Prince had made their one of the largest bosts of her Find I have ever seen. The cap- left and rear were exposed to Bal- from the north and three from that once more the Intle Balkan war the Italians swarmed over the of attrition, bus har part, so far, cape.

Led by the crew and the firstain of the Sailor Prinos told me gar attacks coming from Bufis, the south are of importanos. The peoples had been made the vic frontier north of Verons and west has probably been materially

room force, the passengers rushed that he recognised ber their right and rear were al first northern route is the exten- tims of the great powers. While of Gorizia; they took Cortina, Ala, smaller than that of Serbia menced by the Austrian army sion of our aveans, of the pre- the Germans have been crashing Gradiaca, and a few other towns. It is necessary to record a grow for the boats, Women, un ble same one that had sunk his discontent - among Italy's to get to the boats, threw their although at that time, he sai Bow the Austrian colonza. coming east from Bosnia. Toink vious chapter, the corridor along the Serbians, the Anglo-French outside the trace of Austrian foring of the whols Teutonic operation the Morava, which opens south fores has been pushing against sifications. Nowhere did they allies at her failure to go to the children into the ses and jumped se resembling the effort to catch into the Vardar. Down this the Bulgars and the casualties of got twenty miles into Austrian aid of Berbia or help in the Gal-after them. Frightened sailors deck armament consisted of two a foe în a net, one end carried by comes toe Salonica branch of the of the soldiers of the Car Fex- territory; nowhere did they make lipoli peninsula. She has played cat the ropes holding the smalleis-pounders, which were the Austrians, the middle carried Orient railroad. The second dinand are reported to be enorm suy real breach in the trenches rather cold and selfish game, boste, and when the later crashed plain sight as she came slott by the Germans, and the comes southeast from the Boeniar ons. Balgaria, like Serbia, the Austrians had prepared. Like he does not care if Serbia is into the water three of the six other end by the Balgars, and boundary and is followed for most paying the price, both the French the British wavancing weakened, because Serbia will be were, awam, ed an emptied of the operation is fairly simple to of its distance by a branch rail-in acedonia and Along the from the Marns to the Aure, they rival in the Adriatic, if Ser their human loade

road, which thirty miles above Thracian cost where Allied fleets suddenly came within range of bian dreams come true. She bas The doable Serbian purpose Uskab, enters the Kachanik de have pounded into dust the build-heavy artillery, fixed behind per- not lent much help to get the was to hold back the centre as file. If the Barbs could bold Usings of Dedeagaich, the Bulgars manent trenches, well prepared. Grooks on the Albed side because long as possible, escape the endskab, then the main Serbian army single port on the open ses And, like the French and the she recognizes in Greece a zival of the net, and usaka good an ea retreating could get south and For those who love the parallel British, they were forced to take both in the Adriatic and in the marine appeared, and I started cape into the mountains of Mou join the Allies. They could go in war, the Balkan campaign in- to earth.

Egen. Above all, she has not de- | back toward the stairs leading Importers of "Java" tenegro, if they were unable to south either by the Vardar Valley avitably suggests that other Penin- This is the story of the Italian olared war upon Germany-why, below, with the idea of helping to been asked to cza hold their ground or if no help along the railroad, or over the malar War, which was the first campaign Along moet of the no one can understand. came from the Allies. The single Babuns Fase line, which leaves real step in the overthrow of Na front from Lago di Garda to the shere be any sign of coldness line of retreat that remained open the Vardar Valley at Vales, thos polean As the can gu pro lower valley of the Isonso they and distrust between the

by the Ibar valley, leading reaching Monastir, or they could growed there was striking were operating in a region of of Germany; it growsgut of the from the Serbian Morava valley, reach Monastir by a third road,milarity sugg

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this valley and by par- Tooro to Monastir.

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Forced into the Sea.

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