Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-12-24
GREECE FEARS
MORE BULGARS
may CROSS Line
Proclamation Of Martial Law
Throughout the Hellenic
Kingdom is Reported
to Be Imminent.
MINOR NAVAL FIGHT AT vARNA
Rumored Capture of City Seems to
Be Only Skirmish Among
Torpedo Craft.
MAY BE PRELIMINARY ACTION

LONDON, Dec. 23.-Proclamation
% martial law in Greece is reported
Lnofficially to be imminent. AL
though no confirmation of this report
Is available, there is evidence of
growing uneasiness at Athens over
the possibility that Bulgarian troops
will cross the border.
The only thing which has occurred
to relieve the situation is the an
rouncement that the Bulgarian Off
Ger in command OF the force which
clashed with the Greeks in Epirus
has been punished and that the Incl
dent is considered closed.
Rocrudescence of submarine activities
in the near east Is signallzed in a start
ling manner by the sinking OF the
japanese liner Ysaka Maru. Apparently
there was no loss OF life, but, according
to marine insurance men. the property
loss was the heaviest incurred In any
maritime disaster OF the war. The ma
ture OF the valuable cargo remains un-
disclosed.
minor Naval Fight Rt VRrna.
|
The mystery OF the bombardment OF
Varna. which was at first depicted as
formidable Russian attack on the chief
Bulgarian port, has stirred London, but,
according to reports from both sides It
was nothing more than minor naval
action among torpedo boats. in which the
shore batteries participated. However.
a large Rus.ia fleet IL said TO be In
the vicinity OF Varna, and the action
may be merely the preliminary TO Sc
rous Russian attack.
Hartmann s. Weilerkopf Is once more a
subject OF contention. Possession or the
summit of this mountain has been dis
puted so closely by military forces as
well as by those who officially record
| their movements. that an Associated
Press correspondent was called upon last
| Aprll to decide the relative positions OF
the opposing sides. In the present in
stance the French assert they have ex-
pelled the Germans from their highest
trenches. The Germans admit retirement
from the summit, which they assert they
had occupied since April The French
claim they have not only advanced their
positions substantially. Notwithstanding
the fact that the Germans succeeded In
reoccupying some of the lost trenches,
but have forestalled in a measure an
offensive which the Germans had been
preparing In the Vosges.
BuIEHr Account of varnR Fight.
BERLIN. Dec. 2S.-(By Wireless ia
Sayville. What is apparently the Bull
garian version of the recent naval en-
counter off Verna on the Black sea
coast, which was followed by reports
that the Russians were landing troops
there. Is contained in Sofia dispatch
given out by the Overseas News agency
as follow
-Four Russian torpedo boat destroyers
approached Bulgarian torpedo boat and
attacked lit. The torpedo boat answered
the Russian fire and Bulgarian coast
batteries also took part in the engage
ment. The destroyers shortly withdrew.
The torpedo boat was not damaged"
Turks sink Two Monitors.
CoNSrANTINoPLE. Dec a-Cvis
London. Dec 2s)-A Turkish official
/ statement given out last night says that
on the Irak front, In Mesopotamia. meas
Kut-El-Amara, Turkish artillery sank two
enemy monitors and caused an explosion
/ on board another by a direct hit
An enemy attack on the Caucasus front
in the neighborhood of Id, in Turlish
Armenia. on December %. resulted In
losses for the enemy OF eight officers and
800 men, while the Turkish losses
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