The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-10-15
Balkan TangIe Grows More Com
pIicated and Added To Spread
OF Intrigue Is Fierce Fight
ing Between Serbs and Bulgars
BRITAIN SAYS RUSSIA
SOON WILL SEND TROOPS
Italy Is Expected To Despatch
Force To Help Entente Allies
Drive Back Invading Teutons
Bent On Relief Of Turkey


7 ONDON, October 15.-The Balkan
Atangle grew more complicated than
ever yesterday. The developments may
be summed us as follows: ae .ra
Germany suspends Russian pos
tai service. ~
Germany holds up foodstuffs con
signed to Rumania.
Martial law is proclaimed in
Grecian Macedonia.
Bulgarians concentrating on
Grecian frontier. ...
Greece s entry into war further
Indicated.
Sir Edward Grey says Russians
will aid Serbs soon.
Premier Viviani says Italy may
aid Serbs.
Fierce Fighting Reported ID.
Added to the complications came re.
PORTS of fierce fighting. These reports
may be summed up As follows; fsa
l. L Bulgarians advance ME into
Serbia at one point, asgE t&
n. Serbians elsewhere resist ehtet-
fyefy..---s aks-'.I sir.Ls ~
NJ Russians in Galicia attempt to
prevent Austria from reinforcing
its Serbian army. .|ssJa@ + u.
Germany's suspension of its postal
service to Rumania means that all mail
addressed there is being held up. This
is an action which always precedes
declaration of war and which is seldom
invoked without war following. In
view of this the belief that Rumania
will enter the war on the side of the
Allies has been strengthened here and
officials say they would not be surprised
if more complications came at once.
Berlin Explains Action
Germany's action in holSing up food
stuffs lends added strength to this be-
lief. The foodstuffs held up are those
consigned to Rumania over German rail-
ways.
Berlin explains suspension of the
postal service and food shipments as
due to the uncertain position Of Ru-
mania. The imperial government is un-
willing to allow further mail and food
to be sent into Rumania until more
definite information is received regard
ing the attitude Bucharest will assume.
The Times is authority for the report
that martial law has been proclaimed
in Grecian Macedonia. A despatch to
that paper from SalOnika says reports
persist that the Bulgarians are con
centrating on the Grecian frontier and
it is limited that martial law was pro-
claimed in view of the concentration
and may forecast the active entrance
of Greece into the war.
Russia viii Send Force
In regard to Sir Edward Grey s
statement that Russia will aid her
! allies in Serbia, the secretary % state
for foreign affairs announced in the
house of commons yesterday afternoon
that :" Russian troops to aid the Allies
in the Balkans soon would be avail
! able. The secretary did not say how
they would reach the Balkan war zone.
| The statement by Premier Viviana
that Italy would enter the war was
made in the senate at Rome. The pre-.
mier S statement that Italy "might"
come to the aid of her allies in the
Balkans increased the optimism here
and with the report of the promised
aid from Russia served to lift some
of the gloom that has settled down on
London.
The TeutOns and their bulgarian al
lies continue to suffer terribly at the
hands of the Serbians. The Serbians
are resisting more effectively than was
anticipated here and with the exeep-
tiOn Of the one point where the Bul.
garians pushed into their country for
"A mile, they practically kept their
enemy ut "A standstill.
Bulgars Fight Hard
1t is reported that the fighting be-
tween the Serbs and Bulgaria is unus-
uaIIv sanguinary. With the exception
of the point where the Bulgars made
their big advance they were forced TO
fight their way foot by foot fof what
ever progress they made. tt
announcement that the Russians are
attempting to prevent the Austrians
from withdrawing troops to reinforce
the TeutOnic army in Serbia gains
credencc here because of dispatches
which say the chief fighting on the
Ieastorn front is in Galicia.
The Bermr correspondent Of the Post
has sent a despatch saying, that &C.
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