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UK VU LAST WEEK ' 4 * BALKAN SITUATION CATCHES ALLIES UNPREPARED SERBS NEED QUICK AID - —■ ♦ Expert Reviewer of The New York Times Explains Defeat of Allies on Balkan Diplomacy—Gallipoli Cam* paign Worth Its Costr—Allies Need More Acta and Dess Talk. The week past has seen the Ten- ton-Bulgar campaign >tn full swing. The Teutons have followed the plan, indicated by their opening moves, of conducting a general offensive over the whole of pre northern Serbian front, but driving particularly from Belgrade aim Semendria toward Ve- lika Plana and from there to the NlsHunction. this they have been able to ad- / vance but slowly, the Serbs fighting desperately as they retreat. The Teu- ' ton advance has reached a point not much more than ten miles Inside the Serbian frontier—less than one mile . a day since the Danube an<^ the Save were crossed. The Serbs, however, are steadily yielding to the pressure and, if Bulgarian successes continue, must soon give way more rapidly until their mountain positions are reached. The Bulgarian operations indicate a change from the plan that appar ently they were going to follow. At the outset it seemed that they also were going to drive directly at Nish and, arriving there, either hold the Junction, while their operations in a. the south were proceeding, until the Teutons were able to come down from the north and Join them, or ad vance up the railroad in an effort to take the Serbians in the rear. The danger, however, of English and French assistance reaching the Ser bians by way of tha Salonlkl-Nlsh railroad svldaotly made this road of the greatest immediate importance. The Bulgarian main attack, tbere- fora. was directed at V ran ye. about sixty miles south of Nish, and nt VI- Inndovo. twenty miles southwest of Strumitis, the two points where lbs railroad wind* nearest to the Bulga rian border. Vrenye la about twenty miles from the frontier, Vllendovo not more than five. Vllnndovo waa the first point nt which Bulgarin •truck. As If anticipating such action, tha Alltee struck In behind the Bulgarian troop* at the fortified town of Stru mitis Thus thrwateaed la flank and rear, the Bulgarians fall hack, aban doned their move agalast Vllandovo. and began operations toward Vraaya. , la this they wees The small MwbAoa army, trying to read each a tuo thin, and tha Alltee were unable to got relnforcemeals ao far up tha railroad. The rasull was that tha Hulgartaas bad little trouble In rearhlng tha city and thereby cutting the railroad. Meanwhile the origlnnUy planned move against Mah has not boon en tirely thrust aside, but has proceeded as scheduled, only the rats of ad vance has been much slower, due to the eitremely mountsinous nature of the country As a part of thla gen eral operation there have been three attacks mads, which are still being pushed, each of them along roalroad Horn running Into the mala Beigrade- Ntxh line from the east. Beginning at tha aorth and taking them ta order, the first Is against Xalecar, a wed fortified town con- trolUng the approach of tha railroad from the east that reaches the main line at Peratschln. about forty miles south ef Velika Plana. Aa this lat ter Is the nearest point to thg Ger man forces coming down from the north. Zaloce may be considered the v key to the Junction with the Ger- s i. mans, which fact alone IB sufficient B | to explain its Importance to the gen- “ eral plant. Home twenty miles further south, about ten miles Inside the Serbian frontier, is the town of Kniasyevac, which is reached from Bulgaria by a highway through the mountain pass of Kadibogas. This town is the sec ond point of attack and is on the - railroad which parallels the border and comes into Nish from the north- cast. The third point As Plrot, on the Nish-Sofia road, about half way be tween these two cities and twelve miles Inside the Serbian border. From Pirot there is also an excellent highway running west and connecting with the Nish-Shloniki road at Les- kovatz, about the same distance from Nish—about thirty-five miles—as is Paratschin, the Junction point of the road from Zaiecar. From each of the three points men tioned, however, toward the railroad is one -continuous mountain belt. In many cases the line of advance is throngh deep gorges,+in others .over rocky mountain passes. Here, piuch more than at Vranya, where the coun try is almost open, the defending Serbs will have a great advantage and will cause the Bulgars no end of trouble. Their advance so far has been al most negligible and Is sure to be slow '■unless the army which has taken Vranya succeeds in advancing np the railway and so flanks the Serbs out of position. In that case ‘Nish would ^ fall and the Serbs would haye to re treat to tha mountains in the vicinity of Kusevac, one of their greatest nat ural strongholds. Further south, in the valley of the Brlganitza River, the Bulgarians are driving against the Salonlkl railroad from Yatib, just 25 miles miles west of Strumitza. This operation may prove th« moat sortous to the Allies of any pf those now in progress. The taking of Vranya, while It eats the most direct rout* from fialoalkl to Ow Serbian front, *1111 leaves open a railroad which, though It bran he* off cooMdorebly to the theleea reach* also the Ninh- erei petal* i Yatib, the Bulgarians worn able te reach the railroad and cut it south 6t Uskub, neither the British nor the French would he able to gut rein forcements to the Serbian front nt all. Moreover, the character of the country In the two places is very dif ferent. At Vranya the railroad runs through n valley and is entirely con trolled from the heights on either side. It la impossible, therefore, to extend a front for the tjurpoee of n general occupation of this section. South of Uskub; nearer the Bulgarian border, the country Is much more open, with only the foothills of the Balkan mountains to contend with. Her*, deployment of troops over n considerable front Is entirely feasible and could readily result in the occu patlon of a considerable section of Southeastern Serbia. As a result of this combination of movements, the situation of the .Ser bians seems desperate. After the long typhoid siege of the winter, their forces are small in number and are faced by numbers several times greater. Their allies either can not get to them at all or can reach them only by a wide detour through the western mountains, and even this route is threatened. The Allies, in the meantime, have not as yet shown their hand, and no one can tell what they are going to do or how they are going about It. It is doubtful, indeed, if they have any hand to show. The whole Bal kan situation with respect to the Allies sedhis for some reason shroud ed in mystery. The Balkan puzzle seemed solved when Bulgaria ,s»ter- ed the war, but, instead, this abtlon only made it more difficult to find the solution. Everything points to another blun der similar to the one committed In Belgium. In the rase of Belgium, British reinforcements were promised to Belgium by a certain date, and the Belgians were requested to make every sacrifice tn order to delay the Invaders. At the last minute the promised troops were shifted south to France, and Belgium left alone to stem the tide. No reason was given; none has since been discovered why help waa not sent to Belgium. But It was a stupid. Inexcusable blunder, for which both British and French are now paying dearly with tha lives of their soldiery. Previous to the invasion' of Serbia and the declaration of war by Bul garia. tha Allies made much of their readiness to assist the Sorbs and of their ability to counteract the effect of Bulgaria's army In case Bulgaria should enter the war. They landed a number of troops at Salonlkl. os tensibly for this purpose But when the blow fell. Germany alone was pre pared. It was no bluadar oa the part of British diplomacy that Bulgaria sid ed with the Teutons. Tbs Allies could pot glvs Bulgaria what she de ar fallare. the mammal ham Instiled itself not only by offssttlng Turkish combination with tha Teutons by lu- fluandng Russia ta th* days of Roa- tla’s adversity when the . undercur rent of Russian opinion was that Britdia was not doing her part, and by Influencing tha Balkan States. - But Great Britain is alarmed, needlaaaly and hysterically alarmed, over the Eastern situation, and, while In. thla condition, may make a still more serious blander. The report is current in London that the Allies are going to fore* Greece to make a de cision, either to war with the Allies or with the Teutons, just as Germany forced. Belgium to decide, and thla in spite of the fall of the Veniselos cab inet, in spite mot only of the personal friendship but of the family relation ship which exists between the Kaiser and the Kitfg of Greece. This may prove effective In bring ing the Greeks to Serbia’s aid pro- vldedrEngland Is sufficiently close*to the temper of the Greek people to know that they would revolt rather than take up arms against the En tente. And this England can not know. The very fact that they are forced may change the temper of a people over night. Greece neutral is less dangerous than Greece hostile. Probably, however, before her loss of poise can result in irreparable damage British equilibrium will be restored and the government will be able to see the situation in its true proportions. The simple fact is this: whichever way the fortunes of war may go, the decision will not be readied either on the Nile, on the Red Sea, or In Russia. On both the eastern and western fronts, the situation Is not displeas ing to the Entente’s sympathizers. Particularly is this true of the esat, where the Russian future was looked at in fear and trembling. „ But the Russians, except at Riga, are more than holding their own, giving Mows somewhat harder than they are re ceiving, inflicting heavy punishment on the invaders and weekly capturing large numbers of prisoners. Just a month ago the Germans, with plans carefully made and ready for execution, had the Russians ap parently trapped In the triangle which has Vllna, Lida, and Moldecex- no for Its vertices. There seemed bo escape, and yet whea the trap was when the Vllna salient was voce ff ianhavels ACKOSS BK0A9 ATLANTIC TURKS IN CONM crashed in. the Russians had escaped. , the Oer- #o _ mended even If th* war should decided In their favor, Germany could, and promised H. Moreover, the prestige of the German victories over Russia, empty as they were, and of the loahtUty of the Allies tn the to do much more thsn hold the Germans la their trenches, naturally Impressed Bulgaria with th* Idea that th* German chance of ultimate victory waa greater than that of the Allies. Ralgaria'a move, eot eatlrei) mb looked for, sad It sbomld hare haem aatiripatad by t British home government. With a stolidity sad roacett quite latlc, based apparently oa the stupid ity of German diplomacy rather than oa the strength Of Great Britain's own, the Home Office, if we ledge from what has not been tins let the preeent situation fall them as If It were entirely unexpect ed. It finds them unprepared to Now all Britain, government and press alike, seems to be effected with a sort of hysteria over th* possible direful results that may follow. The British cabinet is on the verge of dis ruption: tha- British parliament is openly discussing the advisability of discontinuing the operations in ths Dardanelles. It Is obvious to those far away from local Influence that the British Judgment Is warped by too great proximity to the trouble it self. To abandon the operations on Gal lipoli might be a political blunder Insofar as it might affect Greece and Roumanla and the sentiment in Rus sia. From a military standpoint, the Dardanelles movement was never anything more tt}an a side issue, an incident entirely subsidiary to the main issue. If given up now it may mean a possible loss in prestige, but no loss in military strength If the Allies had forced the pas sage of the strait the war would have been shortened undoubtedly, but it would not have been ended. Whether successful or not, the landing of force has accomplished a purpose which completely justifies It from military standpoint. It has com pletely neutralized Turkey and has occupied her entire attention almost from the day she joined the central powers. Tha original plan was of course an egregious blunder. Only British con ceit blined the British admiralty to a military fact which has been recog nised by military men since navies have existed. Naval operations against land forces can not be sue cessfully carried on without co-oper- atlon of the military on land Churchill’s navy was not amphibious but believing that because of its strength and efficiency it could alone conquer the Dardanelles’ defences force the passage of the strait and take Constantinople, it was sent on the most impossible manoeuvres which a navy had aver attempted The result was a foregone conclu sion. The Turks were warned that Con stantlnople was to be an objective of the Allies weeks before a soldier was landed, they had all that time to pre pare their defenses and" bring up their supplies gad the allied fleet lost some of the Its most powerful ■hips of war Whan the chance had passed, the AUlea^ roaUsad th* hepalaaa futility of th* navy operating alone. This This move having failed mans then turned to Dvtnsk. a point of considerable strategic importance because of the fact that it Is the unction of the V’llna-Petrograd road with the road to Riga, and the Ger mans need the road to Riga aa they need Its continuation all the way south to Rovno. Against Dvlnsk were concentrated the forces that bad been battling to trap tha Kusslans ip the Vllna nali- *at. and tn addition reinforcements were drawn from different parts of the line further south From Sep t*tuber J5 to th* latter part of las) week the battle raged around the city. ’Htea tfc# tieemaas, after aarrtfic- lag oa esorntoua a ember of men la foaad the tank heyoad itted their de feat by tent lag again to the Riga ■ector, where they had abandoned a ■imllar offensive sometime before. It la against Riga that thetr efforts daring this past week bars been ex erted The main elements ef the Riga situation were described at length several weeks ago in these columns It will be necesskry there for* only to refer to them briefly. Rig* in on the east bank and nt th* mouth of th* Dvlnn river. Prom It three railroads radlata —on* aouth to Mltau, paralleling a good dirt road, one southeast to Dvlnsk. and one Sort beast to Petrograd. On the west bank of the Dvina, about sixty Hen from Rigs la the town of Fried richstndt, constituting a bridgehead defending the crossing of the river From Mltau a railroad runs due cant Joining ths Riga-Vllaa road at Jacob- stadt. Between this road for n distance of forty miles there is a broad marsh belt varying in width from five to thirty miles, and between Riga and Friedrtchstndt there Is not a single road of any description running across this belt to the Vllna railroad. On the other side of this 'alter road there is also a complete absence of roads, the country being a hopeless tangle of hills, forests, and streams This is all there is to the position: The Germans hold Friedrichstadt have held it for some time, and hold also a small section of the railroad, but have been able to make but little advance beyond this point. They are also advancing along the Mitau- Jacobstadt railroad and have reached the town of Gross Eckau, about twenty miles from Mitau. The object of this advance is to reach the first dirt road that runs across the marsh belt toward Jhe Dvina river, reaching it at Sennen, another bridgehead town, thirty miles from Riga, The Germans are reported to have an almost overwhelming force oper ating in this section. At least i quarter of a million men. Official reports of the movement are neither specific nor clear. Apparently, how ever, the Germans are advancing somewhat, bat it does not seppi thftt- the situation is any nearer a solution than it was some months ago when the first threat against Riga was in process of execution. „ Interesting developments seems to be under way in Galicia as well as in other parts of the front from Dvlnsk south. In the preeent stage, how ever, any comment would be pure conjecture and the function of these articles Is rather with things ns they are than with things as they may be. A review of these sections of the front will therefore be deferred until next week when the situation haa as sumed a more tangible form. ^ Heavy Losses. Bulgaria. .Parts, Wednesday: Heavy losses for the Bulgarians tn the fighting which preceded the capture by the allies of fkrumlta* is reported in n dispatch from Salonlkl to MHnn. as forwarded lathe Hayes Naas A It Is asserted that eatire^fittalioaa of Bulgarians ware' annihilated by the Franco- Serbian fi Wireless BtaOon at Arlington Telhs With Faria by Telephone Hoa- olulu Hears Talk of Operator. Arlington, Va.. talked by wireless telephone With Paris, France, Thurs day. Honolulu also beard the opera tor talking from Arlington. An nouncement that the human voice had been projected across the Atlan tic was made on behalf of John J. Carty, chief engineer of the Ameri can Telephone and Telegraph com pany, at the company’s offices In New York. —- Later. Mr. Carty telephoned from Chicago confirming the announce ment. To B. B. Webb, & telephone engineer, fell the honor of being the first man to span with his voick the space between the old world and the new. Sitting in the navy’s powerful wireless plant at Arlington, Mr. Webb shortly after midnight Thursday morning asked the wireless telegraph to signal the Llffel tower in Paris The wireless snapped out the sig nal and soon there came back a re sponse. Awaiting word from Webb at the Paris end of the wireless radio station were H. E. Shreeve and A. M. Curtiss, army engineers, and a group of French officers, listening with especially designed apparatus. In Honolulu, eight thousand miles from Arlington, iMr. Espenchied, an other telephone engineer, at the Pearl Harbor navy yard, also was waiting Webb at Arlington had a transmit ting Instrument but no receiving ap paratus. He knew therefore that he would have to wait for the cable to confirm the success or failure of the experiment. •‘Hello, Shreeve,” he shouted in the mouthpiece. ‘‘Hello, Shreeve.’’ He then began to count, “One, two, three, four; one, two, three, four; goodbye.” Late Thursday afternoon the mes sage came. It said that Webb’s “hello” and "good-bye” had been dis tinctly heard by the engineers and French army officers in Paris and that portions of his test figures had also been picked np. At about the name time there came a message from Honolnln saying that Webb's talk had been understood In full by the receiv ing engineer there and that even tLe voice had been recognised ns Webb's. Carty said over th* telephone that much experimental work will have to be done yet before telephone com munication across the Atlantic be comes an every day affair ALLIES BU» mSSE) AT IAI- IANELLES FMNT TROOPS SAVE SOLDIERS Associated Press Correspondent Says Position of Attackers is no Better Than When They Landed—Over One Hundred and Thirty Thousand Men Have Been Sent to Peninsula. ARMIES OF SERBIA NOW FACE UTTER EXTERMINATION Hammered on .All Ei Sides by Allied Swift once la Her Only Hope. Merida's military position U criti cal. Hammered by superior forces oa two sidra, her armlea are threat ad with betag crushed as no. army an crashed during th* war. Nofonly were thee* farts admitted In England. France and Husain on Monday, but they are reflected in of ficial Serbian statements Tha key to escape from this situation Is th* speed with which France and England could throw forces north from Saloalkl. In the hope of relieving pressure from the Austrians ind Bulgarians tn th* A. The Bulgarians are battling under the eyes of King Ferdinand. Not withstanding the presumably supe-- lor artillery of the Austrians and Germans, it ta th# final attack by. tha Bulgarians which seems tha most menacing to the Serbians. At few places are the Teutons as much as t^nty miles south of the Danube. In fact, the ground gained averages a depth of only ten miles. Tha Bul garians are displaying. tremendous energy. Indicative of carefully laid plans preceding the declaration of war. With twenty miles of the Nish Salonlkl railway in their handa they have a strategic advantage which It will be difficult to overcome. The movement of Entente troops from Salonlkl still are unknown to the public but if any considerable force has been detailed for tha task it must be heard from soon. From Sofia and Salonlkl come de nials that Serbians have Strumltsa. This means that Bulgarian soil still Is free of invasion. It Is reported that the Bulgarians and that a great battle 4 ’ is raging at the Macedonia The following letter from an Asso ciated Press correspondent at the Dardanelles front is of interest, in vlrw of the assertion of Lord Milner iu the House of Lords last week that the British campaign on the Gallipoli peninsula had been a failure, and the declination of the British government to commit itself regarding continua tion of this campaign. Although seven weeks have elapsed since this letter was written, there have been no changes of great importance, as far aa reported, on the Gallipoli fronts. The position of the allied troops on the Anafarta-Ari Burnu front of the Gallipoli peninsula can hardly be described as a promising one. Such, at least, waa the Impression gained by the Associated Press correspond ent during nn eight-day stay in the war arena In question. ,i The factors upon which this conclusion Is based are a thorough Inspection of the Turkish officers and allied priaoners of war. What Is perhaps of more Import ance Is the result of four major mili tary fictions which occurred while the correspondent was on this front. They consisted of nn attack by the Allies on a Turkish position north of Kodjntehemen Dagh the afternoon ol August 20, nn assault on Turkish trenches In the same general locality the same night and two attacks on Anafarta August 2< and 27. In each Instance the Allies ware driven back with heavy Ioanna. No advantages were gained by them, with the excep tion of the temporary occupation of a Turkish t wnch near Kutcbuk Ana farts August 26 The loeses of the Turke were by no meant light In any of these opera tions. but the Allies, acting on th* offensive, suffered heavily Their losses Tor the foar actions are esti mated at eleven to thirteen thousand dead, and double that number of wounded. A description of the Art Burnn- Anafarta territory may be of Inter est. Whea the correspondent visited thla front the Turkish positions ran from th* tmtried 1st* north to Onbe Tepe along the ban* of Kodjmcbei Dagh. then turned slightly northeast toward and peat Blynk Anafarta. thence northwest past Katchuk Ans- farta. clearing that place to th* want at a distance of about eleven ban dred yards, and continlng west in t semicircular sweep toward Klretch Tepe. or Chalk Hill This elevation then formed the ex treme Turkish right flank. Two hills sooth of Klretch Tape, oa some maps Indicated ao part of th* Ktxlar Dagh wars In the hands of ths British The ground held by the Allies was that part of the coast region which could be commanded by their naval artillery. Generally speaking, they held to the south of Kodjatchemsn Dagh the western slopes of ths hills, ■within tha Una drawn above, of tb* Anafarta valley, the warn slop* of a high ridge between th* two Anatnr- tas and the plain to the north of Salt lake. Near tha eastern slop* of Klretch Taps ths allied trenches ran south again and finally cross ad ths northernmost of the two bllln men turned. - Thus far ttis Allies have loaded ta the Anafarta region about oa* dred •alt to pint of ton in th* other nt fivs s'ei of water nt noon to tha only ance of thla necessity, ] that to given. Up to a week ago the food o Brtttoh soldiers countoUd of six Poor health to the result of thto diet. The correspondent talked to aa Eng lish prisoner of the Hants Ninth Ter ritorials, who. unable to obtain medi cal assistance, had become so weak frofii-dysentary that his comrades hod to abandon hlm when the Turks took the trench in which he wen station ed. It to said there are many similar cases. The correspondent saw five ef them. Tt wes explained by these men that the British sanitary sendee to so overtaxed that it can not give attention to every ease .of sickness brought to its notice. To other haadkape of the anted troops most be added the great heat, end ever-present dust. Of some 130 prisoners the correspondent saw, tal ly one-half suffered -from inflamma tion of the eyes. It can not be said that the troops recently brought to the peninsula are first class material. Many of th* men are too young to endure th* hardahips of such a climate. Trench digging, under the prevailing condi tions, to torture to their still unde veloped bodies, leading to palaful disorders. The prisoners of war with whom the correspondent talked had been in the service from fonr to eleven months. Some of them expressed dissatisfaction with their officers. Th* correspondent- witnessed th* total annihilation of n company which had penetrated a Turkish trench, but was destroyed because Its flank was left uncovered. Whether thto wes due to ths impulsiveness of the men or to the negligence of eth ers could not be learned. left the Gallipoli after aa eight ?day stay oa ths the allied troops at the Up of the active for an Their position was no mors favorable than that of their comrades la th* Aaaafarta region, as described la a recent totter. | Field Marshal Liman von Bandars, th* Oermaa officer in commend ef the Turkish forces, gave hto Idea a< th* general sit nation ns follows; I am too old to but I believe—I am aheolnteiy dent—that ualeas something e ordinary occurs w* shall bald Allies where they are.** Th* marshal to atoty-fiv* years old. It to aeafi to or thaas to advaaca. with operatloas conducted within th* rents of raaaoaahl* aa of mea. la _ tt to Mill possible ta dislodge th* great a loan to th* Allies. Oa that front, aa at Anafarta. tb* Turks have to better their pa st Uo a*. Though both fields of set tom are small, th* Turks have dag haa- dreds of kilometers ef fir* Has and communicating trenches. El Jld Tap*. In th* Betfdal Bahr region, haa heaa th* ehtostlre of the Allies. Heavy guns MeUeaed oa Its eem mIt, they argaed, could easily al ien c* the forts at Tahaaak Kale sad Kllld Behr. A survey ef th* ground, however, raises n serleea quest ion whether thto theory is cor rect. Th* Turks took ao and defended th* elevation fully. Th* landing nt Art Burau. !■ tha northern non*, had n twofold pur pose. It was th* time to th* rear of th* Turkish fi Euddul Bahr. sad also to p Kodjntehemen Dagh at th* of the heavy allied he tt arise the Kodjatchemeo Dagh th* works to Kllld Bahr and Tehaaak Rale could bombarded efttetivtoy, aa Jh£ J serving ns supply banes tor opposed by about < thlrty-th hundred sad thirty-d re thoasaad Turks who are aetoally- entrenched with about eighty thousand effectives in Every advantage of terrain to held by the Turks, whose trenchen are located on higher ground than those of the Allies. The Anafarta region may be compared to half of a huge saucer which has been broken, the line breakage being formed by the shore of the Aegean sea and the bot- town of Velezo where the Serbs won . tom and rim being in the hands of a victory over the Turks in the Bal kan war of 1912. According to an unofficial report,, the Bulgarians have taken the town. COTTON FUTURES ACT VOID Federal. District Court Decides Agatast Lever Bill. The cotton futures act of August 18,’ 1914, was declared unconstitu tional Wednesday in a decision hand ed' down in the federal district court by Judge Charles M. Hough In the test case brought by Samuel T. Hub bard of the cotton brokerage house of Hubbard Brothers of New York, against John Z.JLoife, collector of in ternal re vernier The decision was based on the that the Lever blit, which la the tax, originated in the Sen ate, and not In the House of Repre sentatives, as n revenue measure should. The court expressed its re gret that it had to pass judgment on such narrow frounds. * Seven Dip iu Explosion. A wagon load of dynamite exploded as It wss betag hauled Into th* yard of the Granite Mountain Mine of th* North Beta* Company nt Bntt*. men were killed end five seriously in jured. on* - f whom will die. the Allies and Turks, respectively. Until August 16 when the Turks under Lieut. Col. Wllmers Bey, a Ger man cavalry officer, retook Klretch Tepe, the position of the Allies was better, as they were masters of at least a part of the Anafarta region. This advantage was lost that day. A few days before the Turks, under Lient. Col. Kannengieser, a German, reoccupied Kodjatchemen Dagh, while another Ottoman force, under MaJ. Hunger, also a German, cleared off the allied troops from an Impor tant crest west of the Blyuk Anafarta cemetery. With these positions lost, the Allies to-day hold themselves in the Anaiarta .region solely by virtue of an immeniM artillery fire super iority. Without the support of some forty line ships, cruisers and torpedo boats they would be “throw* Into the sea, as Liman von Sanders, commander- in-chief of the Turkish Gfilllpoli army, expressed it. There have been momenta, however, whea the Turk ish troops in the Anafarta district have been hard pressed. On such instance occurred August 26. The British fleet in the Aegean prepared by n very severe bombardment for th* ensuing Infantry assault between the two Anafartas. When ths came the Turkish Infantry win oblig ed to evacuate Its advanced trenches Retreating to tb{ rear and commnal- irrochet, the Turk* . vane* of tha British days Inter th* Turk* reoccupied the loot peaitle*. Aa stuck mad* by th* A mss Aaguet 21 and 27 t* the direc tion of Kltwtcb Top* ended l* hi* slaughter to thirty-tog** h Atoguto t« th* Turkish forees. Kodjatchemen Dagh was occupied by th* British, but lost again. Kl retch Tepe was to stive as • flank position against possible Turkish at tack* on the allied lines In and south of the Anafart* plain. It, too, was taken by the Turks. From view, political garded, the Allies on to a leas favorable day tha* they were April M, whew the first lamtiug took pine*. The Turks in the Anafarta region for the greater part are Anatolian peasantl, sturdy, tough, inured to every hardship of war and not plagu ed by the nerves of their higher strung antagonists. Many of them are clad in rags, not a few are arm ed with single-shot rifles and most ef them wearing slippers instead of shoes. Their fodd though plain. Is substantial and wholesome and their water supply is ample. i. Italy Seeks American Money. Announcement was mad* at New York Saturday that the Italian gov ernment had arranged to place aa issue of twenty-seven million dollar one-year notes In the United State*. Thto will he the first direct loan ne gotiated herd by Italy since th* ha> ginning of the war, and tt will b*.us ed to pay for war and general, sup plies heretofore largely paid ’or through London. Paris, Wednesday; squadron has toft for th* Near under sealed orders. sn| .participate in th* Bulgarian coast. Brindisi dispatch evening hot which had la M i