Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-10-26
GREECE CR|-
Sis APPEARS
PENDING
Popular Demonstrations in Rou-
manian in Effort to Force
Government.
GERMANS ARE NEEDING TROOPS
Kaiser's Generals Forced to Call on
Men Relieved in Russia to Fill
Gaps on West Front.
GERMANS ARE NEEDING TROOPS

London, Oct. 26.-Rumor of dip
lomatic break between Greece and
the allies is current today. England
will call off her offer of the island,
Cyprus, unless the Greeks will agree
to fight Bulgaria. 1t is said the
Greek cabinet will resign.
Berlin, Oct. 26.-Popular demon
strations have been made in Rou-
mania in the effort to force the gov
eminent into the war on the side of
the allies which have failed.
The Bulgarians have captured the
Serbian towns Negapen and PROMO
vo. The Germans are advancing
from the south and have captured a
half dozen Serbian towns along a
front of sixty miles.
Aeroplanes have for the second
time flown over Venice Smelling the
town.
Vienna reports the defeat of Rus
sian troops in Galicia and the cap
ture of one thousand prisoners.
London, Oct. 26.-The Bucharest,
Roumania, correspondent of the
Times says that Serbian troops have
withdrawn from the Danube river
and the Austrians have crossed the
river, traversing the island of Oak
dale The Austrian forces will not
obtain free passage through Rou-
mania, Bumania from Orsova, where
fifty steamers and lighters are as
sembled with munitions.
New York, Oct. 26.-Federal Sc
cret service officers are going over
the case of Robert Fay today, who is
charged with conspiracy to destroy
ships with bombs.
Berlin, Oct. 27.-German progress
has been made all along the Russian
front. Won Hindenberg capturing
positions of Importance from the
Russians and in Galicia taking fif-
teen hundred prisoners.
Washington, Oct. 26.-President
Gompers of the American federal la
Dor association, called upon Presi.
dent Wilson today and the interview
pertained to the manufacture of
gigantic quantity of munitions for
the allies.
London, Oct. 26.-While the Aus
tro-German and Bulgarian cam
paigns in northern and eastern Ser
bia are being carried out according
to the plan, and the Bulgars who
crossed the Timok are separated
from the Germans by only a few
miles, things are not going so we'll
for the invaders. The French troops
have Joined hands with the Serbs,
and, according to French accounts,
have inflicted severe defea' on the
Bulgarians at Krivolak, forty miles
north Of the point where the Saloni-
ki-Nish railway crosses the Serbo-
Greek frontier.
The success places the Bulgarians
who reached Istip, Veles and Uskup
in rather an awkward position, for
a further advance of the allied army
would seriously threaten their
flank. In fact, unofficial reports state
that the advance of the French, who
are being closely followed by the
British, has already caused the re-
tirement of the Bulgars toward
Strumitza.
The first desire of the Germans,
however, is to open a route through
northeastern Serbia and Bulgaria to
Turkey, and this is on the eve of be-
ing accomplished.
On the other hand military writ
ers here do not believe that the po-
sition of Serbia is so desperate as
has been painted. 1t is serious, of
course. but they point out that the
Serbians have many natural defens-
i've positions in the mountains, in
which they can hold out for weeks;
that, with the British, French and