Central Powers

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 40, 14 September 1916, Page 5

Central Powers

A FIELD CONFERENCE. IMPORTANT GATHERING OF HIGH DIGNITARIES. KAISER’S DREAM OF EMPIRE PASSING. ALARM AT RUSSIA’S EFFORTS. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 10.5 b a.m.) New York, September 13. Berlin despatches describe as most important the held conference o Generals at the Headquarters on Urn Eastern front. It was attended by the Kaiser, von Bethman Hcllweg, Enver Pasha, , the King and Crown Prince of Bulgaria, and other high dignitaries. It was the hist held coufeicure of the Central Allies since the war. It is understood that momentous questions are being discussed. There are indications from Neutral sources to suggest that Roumama’s belligerency and the probability of Greece entering tbe war caused the Kaiser to call the conference. Because of the pressing danger that the German road to Constantinople will shortly her cut and that Germany’s ambitions to make Mesopotamia hci principal colonial empire, with the capital at Bagdad, must he abandoned, the Kaiser, therefore, believed in bringing the strongest pressure on his Allies to block the Russian efforts to cross Bulgaria for Constantinople, even at the expense of permitting the Roumanians to completely couquci Transylvania. ;

ONE OBJECT OF THE MEETING. HINDENBURC’S command. Tress Association—Copyright, Reuter’s Telegrams (Received 11.45 a.m.) Zurich, September 13 The conference between the Kaiser, Kin Ferdinand, Herr von Bethmann Hollweg (Chancellor), Herr von Jagow (German Minister of Foreign Affairs), Enver Pasha (Turkish Commander), prominent Austrian militaries and politicians at the Geiman Headquarters, is believed to be concerned with a proposal tliat General Hindenburg should command the armies of the Quadruple Alliance. GERM ANO-TU RCO-EULCARI AN Amsterdam, September 13King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, Enver Pasha, and Herr von HethmannHollwog have arrived to take apait in a conference at the German headquarters. Austria is not representod. COMMANDERS ON THE WEST. Berlin, September 12. Field-Marsh;' 1 von Hindenburg has divided the 'Vest front into three sectors, under the Crown Princes of Germany. Wurtemburg and Bavaria. RETIREMENT CF GERMAN GENERAL, Press Association —Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association (Received 9.5 a.m.) Copenhagen, September 13. General Pllan/.er is retiring owing to ill-health. QUITE ANOTHER STORY ABOUT PFLANZER. (Received 9.5 a.m.) Athens, September 13. With reference to General Bilan 7,o r’s retirement, it is pointed out that lie was heavily beaten in Bukowina.