REPORTED ABDICATION OF KING CONSTANTS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2867, 4 September 1916, Page 7

REPORTED ABDICATION OF KING CONSTANTS

SEVERAL CITIES IN REVOLT REVOLUTIONARY COMMITTEE ' FORMED - . VICTORIOUS. SERBS BIMRS FORCED TO RETREAT .. ;• : AUSTRIAN: : RETIREMENT \ IN TRANSYLVANIA . " .' Greece provides sensation enough and to spare to-day. There is • .first the reported abdication of King-Constantine, which is officially : denied; then there* is i a. rev nary outbreak in', several Greek cities, and the formation of a revolutionary committee styled the Committee of' Public Safety, which','has already got to work; thenthere is an attack ,by Macedonians on the Greek garrison at Salonika, , • and here the -French" have had to interfere in the interests of law aild order. There is no Greek Parliament in the legislative sense <jf the word, the army, demobilised, is at sixes and sevens, and a-lto- ' gether the whole/sitnation is a puzzle, to-all and sundry.. Meanwhile the war. .goes .on. The rapid development of the Rumanian advance, supported by the Russians, has forced- the Austrians to recast their tactical 'dispositions,: and a/general retirement, in Transylvania is in progress. The. Teuton Generalissimo, Von Hindenbnrg, is reported ; t-o be.preparing a.heavy blow.in this..area/ of the -war, and already ■strong- German forces are' concentrating. Oii'the'Sefbo-Bulgarian front there has . been a . rapid development of the Serbian offensive, and the latest reports disclose, a "hasty retirement of the Bulgar forces ' on the.iFlorina-Monastir front, with tie Serbians pressing vigorous l - ly". There is no change on the' Franco-British front in the Balkans. ■ lii the main.- theatres of the .war. the only development of interest is on the Russian'front, where, evidently, there is a revival of the intense fighting which characterised that which followed the great blow which, '.vas struck by Brusilofr'a few months -ago. -On this occasion, ' even the Germans admit .successes by the Russians'. There has been ■ sliarp lighting Western front, but no major operations. Fur'.ther successes : in the :East'African, round-up . arc reported .