Evening star., 1915-01-08
SULTAN'S GOVERNMENT
MAY GO TO ADRIANOPLE
Anglo French Fleet Hammers Dar-
danelles Forts, While Ottoman
Armies Meet Reverses,
AUSTRIA ADMITS HER DEFEAT
Muscovites Are Pressing Invasion of
Hungary-German Advance ON
Warsaw Awaiting Reinforce
ments-Another Attack
Forecast.

LONDON, January S.-Cor-
stantinople, regarded by the allies
as one of the greatest prizes of
the war, should they win and
Turkey be forced to give it up,
may be abandoned soon as the
seat of the Turkish government.
A dispatch from Sofia, Bulgaria.
gives in circumstantial detail All
account of unsettled conditions at
Constantinople, where it is said
that internal disorders, as we'll as
attacks from without, apparently
are feared.
1t is asserted that preparations
have been made to remove from
the city archives of state and the
treasury, should the necessity
arise, and that at Adrianople ar
rangements are under way to re-
ceive the government officials.
Allies Fleet Bombarding Forts.
An Anglo-French fleet is hammerinE
at the Dardanelles, which. IL passed.
would give easy access to Constantine
pie. East Of the city. on the Russo
Turkish frontier. Russian forces which
are said to have detected the Turks are
seeking to penetrate Asiatic Turkey in
the direction of Constantinople.
II the Turkish defeat in the Trans
caucasus is as sweeping as has been
officially reported-the virtual destruc-
tion of two Turkish army corps and the
repulse of q third-the Turkish menace
against the Russians in Transcaucasia
has been removed. The loss of SO many
of their best trained officers and men,
1t is believed here, will compel the
Turks to give up any ambition, theys
had of invading their enemy's terri
tories and force them to concentrate :
on the defense of their own country
e.; Invasion Of Hungary.st.- 4sf
Military men, however. are. taking
great interest IN. the Russian invasion
of Hungary through Uzsok pass in the
Carpathians and their rapid, advance
on Pennsylvania through Bukowina 81
multaneously with their movement
toward Cracow. These combined ope-
rations are the most gigantic UNDER
taken in the war.
Austria Hungary again admits the
retirement Of her forces in Bukowina.
and il is from this Russian forward
movement before which the Austrians
are giving way that the most spectacu-
lar developments of the next fortnight
may be expected to spring, according
to the opinion held today by some
British observers of the war. The ar
rument is made that once Russia gets
good foothold beyond the mountain
passes. something that may be accomp-
iished in a fortnight if the ,Russians
are not checked. big stride TOWARD
have been made. If this is accomplish
ed it will be the first considerable in
vasion OF any territory OF the Teutonic !
allies. T.
Germans Halted in Poland. :
A dispatch from Petrograd says that
ayiators have observed German artil-
lerv at the frontier railway stations
which cannot be moved on account Of
the softness of the roads. 1t has been
suggested that the Germans intended
to ,,,e the vistula for the transporter
their guns, but with the Russians In
bossession of the northern bank this
obviously would be impbssfble.as !. !!
The reports reaching London show
that Gen. Won Hindenburg, the German
commander in Poland; for some time :
,asY. has made. no appreciable progress
toward warsaw, the mud of rPoland
evidently having done for him what
Oh. broken dikes and the resultant in
nn,tat1on did for the Germans in West :,
A dispatch coming to London from !
Eonenhngen declares that Won Hinden- .
hurs is expecting heavy reinfOrcements
and that with an army OF one million :
men he proposes to make -one more su- !
ra,na efrort to break through to THE =
ppoI;aS ;canttal. The Russians would an
1,sar to- have had ample time rtQs retnI /
pc nrca ,fhemselves and to strengthen their
positions around warsaw and .>it y sEne
e,panch warfare. for whichSthe western.
Ssater of the war has become famous.
,I;i, he Waged in the region of the Pol :.
ish rivers
Alarm in constantinople.
coE1A. Bulgaria, via London, January, ,
"a u. .m.-Dispatches reaching here
., -, Constantinople describe the situa-
.ion in the Turkish capital al dncreasins-
sAor ,r,tnp \ &t
= yrha local authorities. appear;sto- ap-
LEND not only. attacks ffomSfke out
prHb p;Sa but i1teftai.s disordsrsraS well.
sspe Spe archivSs Of sthe state have been
racked up ready for removal from the
p;tv and many of them already have
heen sent away. n
pGS GENERATIONS have been completed
.isa FOR .the removal of the treasury. =.
and locomotives are kept constantly
nnder steam in the railroad yards OF
sS,.n,ohoul to meet the possible necessi-
~ Of conveying the officials OF the 3.
SSnvernment ~ to a place of safety. at :
snort notice. q.
AdrianopIe for The quarterfhg Of the ;
state onicials should eventuaiities T.
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