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Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 2 December 1915, Page 3

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Greece Accepts Terms—Freedom of Action for Troops—British near Bagdad — Further Successes for Italians

It is reported from several sources that the Greek Government has agreed to grant the demands of the allies, giving the allied forces freedom of action on Greek territory, and railway and telegraphic facilities, and agreeing not to disarm them.

German semi-official advices reiterate the statement that the Russians are concentrating at Ij&ii, on the Bessarabian frontier, A assist the Servians. The »-vian Minister for War de-(r^Jtjr-that Britain and France arw^>reparing surprises in the Balkans.

Roumania has refused Austria permission to send gunboats down the Danube to the Black Sea.

,The German Dreadnought reported to have been sunk in the Baltic by striking a mine is now named as the Markgraf. Another message from Rotterdam says it is persistently reported that |he German battle-cruiser •Derfflinger was mined with a loss of 33 lives.

.The British, on the 22nd inst., captured Turkish positions at Ctesiphon, a large village on the left bank of the Tigris, 18 miles below Bagdad, in Mesopotamia. Eight hundred prisoners, and large quantities of arms and equipment, were captured. . The Austrians have evacuated Mori and Roveretoj towns east of Lake Guard a, and 18 and 13 miles respectively south and west of Trent, the approach to which they have long guarded.