WISH CABINET
FACING SNAKE UP;
Failure of Balkan Policy, Dis
asters at Dardanelles, Con
scription and Censor
ship Cause Split.
PRESS RAPS GOVERNMENT
TTorthcliffe Newspapers Are
Stirring Up England—Par
liament Demands Facts
About Current Events.
London. Oct. IS.—According to the
Times and the Daily Mail, tension
exists in the British cabinet over the
questions of conscription, the Balkan
situation. and the Dardanelles expedi
tion, while there is gossip over the con
tinued absence of Sir Edward Carson,
‘.he attorney general, from the cabinet
meetings. He has not been present at
*ny of the meetings here this week.
Notwithstanding the recent denial of
•Sir Edward Carson, the attorney gen
eral. that he has resigned, the assertion
,s made by the parliamentary corre
spondent of the Daily News, that he
has given up his office. Announce
ment to this effct is withheld by the
government, the correspondent says,
because of its hope that in the inter
ests of unity he may be persuaded to
y~ withdraw his resignation, the reason
for which, it is said, has not be as
certained.
There is a feeling of dissatisfaction
among the members of parliament at
the inadequacy of the explanation of
the Balkan situation given Thursday
by Sir Edward Grey, the British
foreign minister. As a result there
are demands that the government give
the house of commons an opportunity
to discuss the matter and also for the
government to make a frank state
ment on it.
BLAME SO WIDESPREAD
IT CANNOT BE PLACED
By Francis W. Hirst.
London, Oct. 18.—The chief topic of
the moment is the Northcliffe press at
tack on the foreign office over the al
leged failure of our Balkan diplomacy.
It commenced on Friday last, and now
is developing into a general attack
upon the government and upon the
press censorship. The only minister
so far specially excepted from blame
is Mr. Lloyd George. The newspaper
press is falling afoul of the censorship.
A letter by Sir John Simon shows
the real responsibility to be so much
distributed that no particular person
can be fairly blamed for all the mis
takes that are made.
A The present wave of pessimism,
though largely artificial, may lead to
political developments at home, but
most of the London press critics are
too violent and too much discredited
to shake the government unless it
yields to their clamor, for dangerous
and unpopular measures. The north
ern provincial press keeps a clear
head, and the financial and economic
situation is now coming to be better
understood.
Pan-American Nations Are Un
animous in Granting Rec
ognition to Gener
al al Carranza.
Washington, Oct. 16.—-The Car
ranza agency here today received
a cablegram from Jesus Acuna,
Carranza’s foreign minister, say
ing Zapata leaders Argumedo and
Almazan, with several thousand
1 men have offered to surrender to
General Carranza “If amnesty is
granted them.”
Washington. D. C., Oct. IS.—Favor
able responses were received today
from all the governments participat
ing in the Pan-American conference,
which decided to recognize General
Carranza. Secretary Lansing has called
a meeting of the conferees next Mon
day to arrange the form of recogni
tion.
Argentina, Bolivia, Uruguay and
Guatemala replied yesterday. Today
favorable word came from Brazil and
Chile.
Inasmuch as some of the countries
still have diplomatic representatives in
Mexico, a renewal of relations in an
official manner can be arranged. The
United States and several other coun
tries. however, have not had dip
lomatic representatives for some time
In Mexico City and recognition prob
ably will take the form of the pre
sentation of a note to General Car
ranza through the medium of Eliseo
Arredondo, his representative here, who
will depart for Mexico to meet Gen
eral Carranza.
With the presentation of such a note
in embargo on arms would go into ef
fect against opposing factions and an
ambassador or charge d’affaires would
be sent as soon as selection could be
A made.
SETS WORLD RECORD
FOR 440-YARD DASH
San Francisco, Oct. 16.-—Frank Slo
man, a San Francisco high school boy,
/ broke the world’s interscholastic 440
g yard record in a sanctioned meet here
today on the Panama-Pacific exposl
! tion dirt track. His time was 48 1-5
seconds, three-fifths of a second faster
than the record held by Ted Meredith.
SUFFS STAGE PARADE.
Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 16.—More than
5,000 women supporters of the suffrage
amendment, which will be voted on in
Pennsylvania next month, were ex
pected to participate in a parade here
this afternoon. Headed by Mrs. Frank
, M. Roessing. president of the Pennsyl
vania Woman Suffrage party, and
I Miss Hannah J. Patterson, chairman.
[' the pirade will traverse the principal
downtown streets.
American Defense Plans.
What the Army Wants.
A regular army of 140,000 men; an increase of more than 50,000
men in the present establishment, including 10 regiments of infantry,
four regiments of field artillery, 50 regiments of coast defense, 15
companies of engineering corps and two detachments of aviation
corps.
A continental army 400,000 strong, enlisted for six years for serv
ice within the continental United States. These men would serve two
months a year for the first three years, undergoing a period of in
tensive training. The remaining three years they would be on fur
lough subject to call in time of need.
State militia 125,000 strong.
The training and drafting of at least 2,000 officers in the next
two years.
The standardization of all military schools.
Adequate supplies of small arms, field guns, howitzers and re
serve ammunition for the increased establishment.
This plan would bring the total standing and reserve army up to
1,2000,000 at the end of six years.
What the Navy Wants.
Total army, peace footing, 665,000 men.
Ten new dreadnaughts, six great battle cruisers, 70 submarines,
50 destroyers, 10 fleet scout crisers and a host of auxiliary ships, such
as tenders, colliers, mother ships for submarines and sea planes.
Total expenditure of $500,000,000 covering a period of five years
in which to complete the navy building program.
This would bring the total naval strength of the United States up
to 28 modern dreadnaughts and 22 older battleships, a total of 50 first
line craft; first class cruisers, 11; second class cruisers, 4; third class
cruisers, 15; gunboats, 31; monitors, 9; destroyers, 118; torpedo boats,
128; submarines and numerous smaller craft, including monitors,
scouting craft, etc., making it second only to Great Britain and a close
competitor of that country in total tonnage and gun power.
British Submarines Virtually
Have Cleared Scandina
vian Waters and Bro
ken Up Trade.
London. Oct. 3 8.— British submarines
have now cleared the Baltic Sea and
tiie Gulf of Bothnia entirely of German
merchant ships, says a dispatch to the
Star from Copenhagen. Every German
ship which wra$ south tmund from
Sweden when the submarines started
their campaign, has either been sunk or
run aground it adds.
Of 50 German ore carriers, 37 are
virtually interned in Swedish ports,
the correspondent declares.
Having driven the German merchant
men from the sea, the submarines have
sunk one, and probably two German
torpedo crafts, one reported to be a
torpedo boat destroyer and the other
a torpedo boat—which with other war
ships had come out to convoy ore laden
steamers. Activity of the British navy
also is shown in the North Sea. The
record shows that 24 German trawlers
have been captured and taken into
Grimsby during the past month.
CRiDERMAN SAYS HE
KILLER BOTH WOMEN
Denies Assault Attempt and De
clares Action Was Result
of Petty Quarrel.
Valenti ie, Neb., Oct. 18.—William
Crldermnn, a farm hand at the Heelan
ranch, 18 years of age. has made com
plete confession of the murder of Mrs
Nell Heelan and Mrs. Anna Layport |
at the Heelan ranch, near Valentine. '
Young Criderman now denies that he
attempted to assault Mrs. Heelan, his
employer’s wife, but the authorities do
not credit this denial, on account of
various circumstances.
In his confession he says that he was :
at Arabia early in the evening with
Mrs. Heelan and Mrs. Layport, Mr.
Heelan being in Omaha with their 12
year-old daughter, who Thursday un
derwent an operation at the Presby
terian hospital.
At Arabia, according to Criderman's
confession, he had an altercation
with Mrs. Heelan over a horse, and
was sent home ahead of them. He
says he was in a bitter frame of mind
and planned murder. He asserts that
when the two women arrived at the
ranch they refused to give him any
thing to eat, whereupon he secured a
shotgun and went to the barn, where
he wrote a note, which was Thursday
found there in a conspicuous place,
reading:
“I won’t tell you what the trouble
started over, but you will find our
bones In the ashes.—W. C."
Then, so he says, he sneaked up to
one of the windows of the house and
shot Mrs. Heelan. Entering the house
and stepping over the dead body of the
ranchman’s wife, he shot Mrs. Lay
port, who was screaming into the tele
phone trying to secure help. He adds
that he shot her twice and that she
was not dead when he set fire to the
structure.
Going to the pasture he stole one of
Heelan's fastest horses, donned one of
the women’s skirts, mounted and rode
toward Wood Lake down the railway
tracks.
Although not admitted in the confes
sion, the authorities say that by piec
ing the admissions and evidence to
gether they are convinced that Cryder
man attempted to assault Mrs. Heelan,
that she baffled him and that he then
told her to prepare for death. He shot
her through the head while she was
telling her beads, rosary and crucifix
in hand, and her friend at the tele
phone.
From the body of Mrs. Heelan he
stole the rosary, crucifix and prayer
book, and from Mrs. Layport’s body
an inexpensive side comb and a gold
watch.
When arrested, the murderer was
wearing the rosary he had taken from !
his victim.
CHILD KILLED BY EXPLOSION. |
Aberdeen. S. D., Oct. 16.—An explo
sion cf a gasoline stove In a cook car,
for a threshing rig. operating on a farm
four miles from Timber I.ake. S. D.,
-ausod the death of a 17-months-old
baby an t seriously burned the child's
• •oilier, lira. John Kampeisol.eroer. •
I »
TRAIN FALLS INTO
Union Pacific Motor Cars Plunge
Into a Creek, Over Which
the Bridge Had Been
Washed Away.
Randolph, Kan., Oct. 16.—Union Pa
cific motor train No. 579, consisting ol
one passenger coach and a baggage
and mall combination car, crashed
through an undermined abutment,
plunged into Fancy creek, and buried
about 15 feet of the forward end of
the passenger car in flood waters and
mud. one mile south of here, early to
day.
Four of the estimated 75 passengers
are known to be dead and nine other
bodies are said to be lodged in the
buried end of the car.
All attempts to reach these bodies
have failed and the correct death list
probably will not be known until the
wrecking crew can reach the scene and
lift the car.
Francy creek, ordinarily nearly dry,
was swollen into a torrent’ by three
Inches of rain, which fell yesterday and
last night. The bridge proper with
stood the ravages of the flood waters,
but the south abutment was cut under
so that the charging motor train car
ried it down.
A majority of the passengers were
young women school teachers coming
to a teachers' meeting which was to
have been held here today. Several of
the young wotnen are unaccounted for.
It was said few persons in the
wrecked car escaped injuries. A call
was sent to Marysville and to Manhat
tan for medical assistance. The homes
of Randolph were thrown open to the
sufferers.
The identified dead are:
DR. LEWIS ATWOOD, physician,
Topeka. •
ALMA K. JELLIN, Garrison, Kan.
Warren Knittle. of Manhattan, con
ductor of the wrecked train, estimated
that 13 passengers, probably lost their
lives. He said 37 passengers had been
accounted for as alive after the wreck.
The illfated train arrived at the
Fancy creek bridge at 7:50. The train
was traveling at a rapid rate, when, ac
cording to the passengers the forward
end of the passenger suddenly pitched
down.
GERMANS DETERMINED
TO GET DVINSK, CLAIM
On Defensive Elsewhere on the
Eastern Front, Petrograd
Dispatch States.
Petrograd, (via London), Oct. 16.—
With the exception of Dvinsk, on the
northern end of the Russian battle
front, where fierce artillery battles
continue, the Germans appear to be on
the defensive along the entire eastern i
front. ]
Russian military authorities say they i
have obtained information that the i
German armies have been ordered to <
take Dvinsk at any cost. German at- i
tacks at this point have been made
with the utmost Impetuosity under :
cover of a terrific artillery fire, but so i
far they have been unable to break
down the Russian defense. The Ger
man losses are reported to have been i
extremely heavy.
COPPER MINERS SEEK
AN INCREASE IN PAY ;
El Paso, Tex., Oct. 16.—Peace com
missioners went Into conference today
with the announced purpose of seeking
terms upon which the Arizona copper
miners’ strike may be settled. Norman
Carmichael, J. W. Bennie and Milton
McLean, the three mine managers who
fled from the Clifton district to El 1
Paso, claiming that they were In dan
ger of personal violence, gathered in
a hotel room with G. Hollingsworth, J.
S. Hughes. Henry Daly, Kudolfo Pal
acios and Rufino Garcia, the represen
tatives of the strikers. The miners’
committee was escorted to the meeting
place by Adjt. Gen. C. W. Harris, of
the national guard of Arizona. 1
With the question of formal recog
nition of the Western Federation of
Miners already waived by the strikers,
the conference was expected to cen
ter around wages and grievances. The 1
miners took into the conference a now
wage scale and demanded iq jc<v„k
an .u l>y lav o.c uw.i.
SUFFS AND ANTIS IN
RIVAL MANIFESTATIONS
Staid Old Boston Stirred to
Depths by the Fight for
Equal Suffrage.
Boston. Oct. 18.—Advocates of tho
Woman suffrage amendment to be
voted on in Massachusetts in Novem
ber were astir early today with prepa
ration for a "victory parade" this
afternoon in which it was < xpected
10,000 marchers would be in line.
Thirty bands were engaged, and fac
ing Boston common there had been
erected a reviewing standing to be
occupied by Miss Alice Stone Black
well, president of the Massachusetts
Suffrage association, and others prom
inently Identified with the cause.
The program preceding a great mass
meeting included a review at the state
house by Governor Walsh, and the
presentation by Miss Helen Keller to
the governor of a letter written by
Miss Keller commending him for his
stand on suffrage.
A counter demonstration was
planned by leaders of the antisuffrage
movement. Along the line of march
scores of houses had been decorated
in red, the antisuffrage color'-, while
red roses worn by crowds in the street
were supposed to indicate their op
position to votes for women. It was
the antisuffragists plan to stand in
silence along the streets through
which the parade moved with their
red colors flung to the breeze. Strict
orders had been issued, however, that
the suffragist paraders were not to be
annoyed.
FEDERAL MARINE
McAdoo Explains Dual Pur
pose of Pronosed Govern
ment Owned Mer
chant Fleet.
Kansas City, Mo„ Oct. 18.—A vigor
ous plea for a navy which would make
the Uhlted States able to face any
other world power and a $40,000,000
merchant marine, to be used as a naval
auxiliary in case of war, was made by
William G. McAdoo, secretary of the
treasury, in an address before the
Kansas City Commercial club, which
approved his scheme.
"It is not for aggression that we
must have an adequate navy, but to be
able to say to he world that we are
prepared to uphold the honor and
majesty of this great republic," said
the secretary.
"Fighting equipment alone, though
It be of the best that the resources and
brains of the country can prepare, will
not accomplish this purpose." con
tinued the secretary. “A navy can be
no better than its auxiliary, since
battle cruisers and submarines are
not built to operate long without re
newal of supplies and men."
The plan of the administration, Mr.
McAdoo said, “is to appropriate $40,
000,000, or possibly $50,000,000 to be put
into a merchant marine to be used in
extending the commerce of the nation
In times of peace, but so constructed,
equipped and manned as to become
Immediately the necessary naval aux
iliary. Mr. McAdoo continued:
“I believe an adequate merchant
marine, headed by a commission com
posed of the secretary of commerce
and the secretary of the navy and
three experienced business men could
make the United States the dominant
financial and industrial power of the
world. Also it would disprove that
time worn theory that merchant ships
cannot be operated under American
registry and made to pay profits."
Francis W. Hirst, Economist,
Declares That Austro-Ger
man Funds Are Nearing
State of Exhaustion.
BY FRANCIS W. HIRST.
Editor of "The Economist.”
London. Oct. 18.—German and Aus
trian war finance cannot last much
longer, and our policy should therefore
be to limit our obligations by the prac
tice of the severest economy, both in
public and in private expenditure.
Economy is difficult for military of
ficers, also for individuals who are
making money fast, and for working
men earning high wages. The war
profits tax will, however, have a sal
utary effect upon the private expendi
tures of war contractors whom it
obliges to think of future taxes as we!!
as present profits.
Farsighted critics continue to urge
further taxation upon luxurious expen
diture of all kinds because the float
ing of new loans before new money
has been saved must mean an infla
tion of prices.
Luckily for the working classes the
world’s harvest statistics point to
cheaper bread.
The embargo on cotton goods indi
cates the official belief here that Ger
many lacks clothing.
The largest single law office in the
country is the attorney general’s of
New York state, which takes up all
the time of Attorney General Wood
bury and his 35 assistants. At present
the office is handling 8,233 cases, in
volving more than $150,000,000 in mon
ey and property.
CROWD OF 2,000 SEES
NEGR0J5LAYER HANGED
Murphysboro, 111., Oct. 16.—Joe De
berry, a negro, was hanged at 9:30
o'clock this morning for the murder of
Mrs. J. H. Martin. A crowd of out
siders thronged the town and 2,000
persons ere within the stockade to
witness the execution. Three thou
sand more were on the streets unable
to gain admittance.
Honduras last year exported prod- I
ucts valued at $3,421,331.
nU IS KILLED BY
OWN IB, REPORTS
TO BORDER STATE
Border Officials Unable to Con
firm Various Stories That
the Famous Mexican
General Is Dead.
RUMOR WIDELY CURRENT
Revolt Said to Have Broken Out
Among Rebel Troops at
Cases Orandes, Fol
lowing Murder.
Douglas, Arlz., Oct. 16.—Gen. P.
Ellas Calles, Carranza commander
at Agua 1’rleta, said today lie had
been Informed that General Villa
was enroute from Casas Grandes
to Sonora. He believes his infor
mation Is correct.
El Paso, Tex., Oct. 18,—A report that
Gen*. Francisco Villa, leader of th*
northern faction in Mexico, 1 us been
killed and was brought to El Paso
early today by a Mexican woman who
Just arrived from Casas Grandes.
Reports current here for 12 hours
that Gen. Francisco Villa, chief of th«
convention forces, had been arrested
by his own men at Casas Grandes,
convicted, and put to death, could not
be authoritatively confirmed here early
today. Messages from General Villa,
in his private code, wore received at
Juarez at * o’clock yesterday afternoon.
The messages related to business with
his representatives at Juarez.
Tells of Revolt.
A Mexican passenger from Casas
Grandes. arriving Thursday night, was
said to have brought the first word of
Villa's death, but his story became pub
lic only la^e yesterday, when it re
ceived apparent confirmation from an
American arrival, who said he hnd been
so Informed by a railroad employe.
The Mexican’s story was that Gen
eral Villa had demanded money of a
subordinate, who on refusing, was shot
by the northern chieftain, A revolt
occurred, the story continued, in which
7,000 Mexicans arrayed themselves
ngainst 2,000 that sided with Villa. In
the fight that ensued Villa was killed,
said the Mexican.
Villa's Allerjod Slayer Drowns.
One report was that executioner,
Gen. Rudolfo Hierro, was dead, was re
ceived over the military wires from
Casas Grandes. It stated briefly that
Fierro had been drowned while fording
a river; that his horse slipped and the
general was swept down stream.
General Fierro was one of the most
picturesque and most audacious lead
ers produced by the Mexican revolu
tion. Formerly lie was a railroad
brakeman. finally turning bandit and
robbing an express train at l.ampasos.
Mex., between Laredo aid Moptetey.
For this he never was proseeut d.
eluding his pursuers and escaping to
the hills.
When the revolution broke out Fierro
joined Villa's forces and won the es
teem of his commander at the buttles
of Torregn and Zacatecas, .subsequent
ly he became known us Villa's rtghi
band man, who could be relied upon to
carry out particularly atrocious plans
It was Fierro who took William Ren
ton, an Englishman, in charge when
the latter attempted to call Villa to
account for the confiscation of Pei,
ton's property. The death of Pent in
was attributed to Fierro. He was with
Villa on his recent visit to the ranch
of Gen. Tomas Urbina, during whh h
Urbina was killed.
Fierro Ruthless Bully.
Fierro was u large man physically,
alert, cunning and apparently Inse ns
ible of fear. Recently while In a Juarez
resort Fierro compelled a party of
Americans to drink to Villa’s health
and forced the women In the party to
dance with him. On another Occasion
he is said to have placed the- point of
his dagger at the stomach of a pro
prietor of a Juarez resort and com
pelled him to laugh at the “tickle" of
the razorlike edge.
Tales of ruthless slaughter of pris
oners and cruelties permeated the at
mosphere about Fierro, until his pres
ence was sufficient to stampede Mexi
cans or foreigners, yet various tales
were told of Mexicans unafraid, who
compelled him to “step lively" with
shots fired at the heels of his boots
which were bearing him to safety.
Washington. Oct. 16. — Messages
reaching the state department early to
day from George C. Carothors, Its spec
ial agent at Casas Grandes. made no
mention of anything happening tp Gen
eral Villa.
PLAGES RECRUITING
IN CIVILIAN HANDS
Radical Change in Enlistment
Methods Inaugurated in
Great Britain.
London. Oct. 18.—Recruiting Is to be
taken entirely out of the hands of the
military authorities and entrusted ex
clusively to civilian organizations.
This is the scheme by which the Earl
of Derby, director of recruiting for the
army, hopes to secure a sufficient
number of voluntary enlistments to
render recourse to conscription un
necessary. He described the new sys
tem at a private conference with the
parliamentary recruiting committee
and the joint labor recruiting board
this afternoon.
"The changes that I propose mak
ing,” said Lord Derby, “have not been
necessitated by any short comings on
the part of the recruiting staff, but by
the exigences of the present situation
which to my mind, require entirely
new methods of dealing with the sub
ject. In the past, recruits have been I
found by the military authorities as- 1
sisted by civilians. I propose to make
civilians responsible for bringing ram
material in the shape of recruits to the 1
military authorities for them to en- i
list, clothe, equip and train.
ARGENTINE AIRMAN KILLED.
Buenos Ayres. Argentine, Oct. l(i.—»
Francisco Beltramo. while attempting
to loop the loop in an aeroplane here
today, fell to the ground and wa>
'tilled ;
ENVOYS IF ITALY
ill CZAR MG
GREECE, IS MOR
Rumored Move May Mark Be
ginning of End of Negotia
tions Between Greece
and Entente Allies.
GERMAN TREATY HINTED
Italy to Send 150,000 Troops
Into Balkans—Counter Blow
May Be Struck at the
City of Sofia.
London, Oct. 16.—A blockade of
the Bulgarian coast in the Aegean
aea by British warships of the
eastern Mediterranean squadron
was put into effect today, accord
"Jfl to announcement made by th®
official press bureau.
Paris, Oct. 16.—Auetro-German
losses in the campaign against
Serbia up to Thursday evening,
October 14, were estimated at 25,
000 officers and men killed and
60,000 wounded, according to a
dispatch received today by the
Temps from Nish, tho Serbian
capital. The Serbian army oper
ating in the north, the message
adds, also sustained heavy losses.
. P«fia. Oct. 16.—Unrest in the
interior of Bulgaria is reported in
special dispatches through Bu
charest.
Many officers of pro-Russian
sentiments have retired from the
army, it is declared.
Amsterdam, (via London). Oct. 18.—
According to a dispatch from Athens t®
the Cologne Gazette, the ministers of
Russia and Italy are preparing to leav®
Greece. The families of the diplomats,
the message adds, probably will leav®
the Grecian capital today on a warship
bound for Italy.
Nothing has been heard from any of
the entente capitals about a possible
rupture with Greece. Yesterday’s new®
reports declared that the rumor waa
wldescpread In Berlin that a secret
treaty between Germany, Greece and
Bulgaria exists. Bulgaria, since de
claring war on Serbia repeatedly ha®
assured Greece that she contemplated
nothing affecting Greek Interests.
The entente allies are plainly disap
pointed with the conduct of Greece,
whose king reversed the policy of hi®
ministry at the last moment after al
lied troops had landed at Salonikl
and the Greek army had been mobilized
with funds furnished by England. King
Constantine, of Greece, Is a brotlierin
law of Emperor William, of Germany.
ITALY TO SUPPORT ALLIES
IN BALKAN EXPEDITION
Par's. Oct. 18.—Italy will send 150.
D00 men to the Balkans, according t®
Information received by the Excelsior
from what the paper says Is a reliable
source. The government maintains
the strictest secrecy as to where th®.
troops will be landed, says the Ex-'
jelsior’s Informant, but Italian inter
vention will take place at a point
where it will have a decisive effect on
the whole Balkan campaign.
The military critic of the Budapest
Universal, In an article today ex-.
Dresses the belief that the British and,
French troops landed at Salonikl will
lot go to the aid of the Serbians at
Vish, which is 250 miles from their!
Dase, but will make a direct attack on
Sofia from the Serbian frontier, thus
jutting Bulgaria in two and also stop
Ding the Austro-German advance by
)ne of the principal railroads to Con
itantlnople.
The writer adds, however, that th®
fcnglo-French forces must be strong
md that Italy must cooperate with
Ihem.
ENGLAND AND BULGARIA
HAVE NOW DECLARED WAR
London, Oct. 16.—Reciprocal war •
leclaratfons between Bulgaria and
3reat Britain and Serbia together with
King Ferdinand’s manifesto the But
jarian people defining Bulgaria's cause
ina intention have marked another
phase in the Balkan situation which
s slowly emerging from obscurity.
3reece's decision not to Join forces with
Serbia at present although causing'
profound disappointment in England
tnd being regarded by many London
pommentators as equivolcal and as
.'lolating the obligations to Serbia has,
it least, been accounced in the words,
permitting of no further doubt as to ’
the immediate position of affairs,
which, however, circumstances might
liter at any moment.
Rumania Neutral.
Rumania remains the only sphynx
ike figure in the Balkans. She, ac
pording to a telegram received In Paris
from Bucharest, has decided to main- '
tain strict neutrality, but this is not
taken in London to be a definite an- .
iwer.
Field Marshal Mackensen’s campaign
igalnst Serbia is developing with n
ilowness that Is very gratifying to tbs
lilies of Serbia. He has advanced
ilightly and made some captures, but
its troops according to advices received
n the British capital, have so far ob
tained no important results.
The first Bulgarian army is attack
ng the Serbian frontier northeast of
Mlsh, the present capital of King
Peter, and is occupying the mountain
passes. Confident dispatches from
Mish sav that unless the Austro-Gar
nans bring up further reinforcements,
the Serbian troops will be able to hold
heir defenses.
An unofficial Balkan report says tho
Serbian army already has retaken
Pisana and Boukva, which were cap
ured by the Bulgarians, October 13.
A Nish disDntch says:
"There has been severe fighting
ilong the northern front. According
o the latest report received at ths
Serbian headquarters the Austro-Ger
nan forces on the Obrenovatz-Bel
[rade-Seniendria-Gradichte front have
ost 20,000 killed, and 40,000 wounded.
! message from Oroovitza to the Ger
nnn legation at Sofia admits great
osses and says that the Serbian re
:istance exceeded expectation.
SERBIAN CAPITAL IS
TRANSFERRED FROM NISH
Milan, (via Paris), Oct. 16.—The seat
if the Serbian government has been
ransferred to Mltrovitza, near the
ilontenegrin frontier, according to a
Llspatch to the Secolo from BucinurasL