In the Balkans
ULTIMATUM TO GREECE. ASSERTION OF GERMAN NEWSPAPERS. [United Press Association.] (Received 12.40 p.m.) Copenhagen, November 19. German newspapers assert tlult the Allies have decided to present an ultimatum to Greece. THE KA3SER IN COMMAND. MACKENSEN AT GALLIPOLI. United Press Association. (Received B.do a.m.) Rome, November 19. It is stated that yiticipating Kitchener’s mission, the Kaiser directed Mackensen to hurry to Gallipoli and direct the German and Turkish forces. Mackensen arrived in Constantinople on Sunday and left on Tuesday. Other reports state that the Kaiser is personally directing the operations against the Serbians . and AngloFrench. ANOTHER TURN OF SCREW CRIPPLING GREECE’S TRADE. (Received 8.35 a.m.) Paris, November 19. . The Government has ordered the authorities at Marseilles not tb accept shipments "of merchandise for Greece.
MUN AST! R THREATENED. U.MKD PniiSS Association. Bonie, November 19. The Tribumi’s Salonika correspondent says that the Bulgarian advance guards have reached Monastic. PITEOUS APPEAL FOR HELP. Athens, November 19. The M ouastir railway station and the roads arc crowded with refugees hurrying to Greece. The Serbian garrison is reduced to a few thousands, who are without munitions and'bread, and are starving. The commandant lias sent two officers to Salonika with a piteous appeal for help. The Serbian force at Monastic is cut off from communication northward, the Bulgarians having reached Albania. The Serbians in Bahtina Pass, finding that they were unable to detach men do check the Bulgarian enveloping movement, were forced to retire, and the evacuation was carried out without the loss of a single man. Greek Liberal newspapers declare that Greece’s duty is obviously to prevent the fall of Monastic. The disembarkation of the second portion of the Allies’ troops has been completed. ROUMANIAN NEUTRALITY. London, November 19. . The Paris press quotes the Roumanian Minister of the Interior as saying that he supposed intervention from the mere love of Latin civilisation would not account for possible results. “We will act in accordance with our own interests at an opportune moment.” Tumultuous demonstrations in favor of the Allies occurred at Galatz. The windows of Germanophile newspapers were smashed. There were seventeen arrests. M. Bratiami is alleged to have told the deputies that he wished to continue neutrality, hut did not desire to coerce M. Filipisco and other opponents. All our positions on the Cerna, Varda r, and Kosturino have been maintained. MISCELLANEOU SITEMS, London, November Is. The Times correspondent reports that Bulgarian escapees state that the Bulgarians think they are fighting the Germans. ’The Times correspondent at Rome states .that the'ltalian staff are up speeding Durazzo a§' a port of disembarkation for the Allies, in Albania, as the only hope of saving the remainder of the Serbian army. The bridges to Tirana have been specially examined. Albania is restless, favoring the Aus-tro-Bulgars, while the Greeks are pushing on towards -Berat, which district is unfavorable to Greek inflence. The bazaars are refusing Serbian notes, and the Serb troops have been withdrawn from Tirana and Elhazan to subdue the Bulgarian comitadjis round Monastic/ Greece has closed the southern Albanian frontier, and is massing her troops, threatening the Italian occupation of Valona. The C'entral News asserts that Turkish delegates arrived at Athens with a view to making a Turko-Greek agreement. Two Austrian steamers passed Kalafat towing seven lighters with munitions, and flying the German flag. Twenty lighters had already passed, and later a large squadron of Austrian vessels with munitions and guns, escorted by torpedo boats, passed. It is difficult to estimate what tittle the munitions will reach the Turks at the Dardanelles. Most of the railway stock in Bulgaria is required for the conveyance of troops to Serbia and Macedonia, hut Germany may he expected to exact the earliest dispatch, owing to the chronic shortage.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 69, 20 November 1915, Page 5
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