Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-11-23
TURKS WIN A
Great VICTORY
No Blockade of the Greeks is Lon
don Report Expected That
Greece Will Not Help
Germany.
SOLUTION is EXPECTED SOON
No Definite News Yet Received Of
Stand Greece Will Take in Re-
gard to Demands.
SOLUTION is EXPECTED SOON

gard to Demands.
Berlin, Nov. 24.-Turkish armies
ten miles from Bagdad, have defeat.
ed one hundred and seventy thous.
and English, Canadian and Austral.
ians from Egypt and the allied
forces were driven back twenty
miles. A part of the allies campaign
contemplated that large Russian
army should advance through Per
|sia.
London, Nov. 23.-Tfe govern
ment announces that no Greek ships
have been siezed upon the high seas
and that there is no blockade OF
Greek ports.N It is expected that
Greece will surrender to the de-
mands of the allies and either join
them or allow them to carry on the
war without interference.
Rome and Athens both announce
that Monastir has not been captured
by the Bulgarians. The BulgarianS
have been driven back five miles by
the Serbian army and the English
are now coming up so the probabili-
ties are the town will be saved. Ten
thousand Bulgarians have either
been killed or wounded in the bat
tie.
Bucharest, Nov. 2S.-Fourteen
hundred carloads Of army supplies,
ammunitions and hospital supplies
have passed through Bulgaria for
Constantinople. Eight hundred and
forty-two centimeter guns have been
sent to the Turks by the Germans to
be used against the allies I'M the Gal
lipoli peninsula campaign.
Berlin, Nov. 23.-The capture by
the AustroG Germans and their allies
OF ninety-five hundred Serbians was
announced today. With the taking
of Prestina, fifty canons and twenty
two machine guns were captured.
The Teutonic allies have entirely
surrounded the northern Serbian
army.
London, Nov. 23.--No definite
news has been received here of
Greece's reply to the entente allies
demands for guarantees of the safe
ty Of the Anglo-French forces land
ed at Saloniki or for that Of Ser
bans who might be forced over the
Greek frontier.
One dispatch from Athens, how
ever, says the Greek cabinet is dis
posed to accept the conditions laid
down by the entente powers, except
that one requiring Greece to par
ticipate in the war and that solu-
ton of the whole difficulty may be
expected Immediately.
Meanwhile the blockade of Greek
commerce has commenced and Italy,
it is reported, is participating in the
measures Of restraint. This, with
the news that the SerbiaGs have won
a victory over the Bulgarians north
east of Pristina, that the Bulgarians
have delayed their march on Mona
stir and that the Austro-Germans
are laboring under difficulties as a.
result of the wintry weather, has
created a more hopeful feeling in
the capitals of the entente allies.
The British and French forces
daily are being strengthened by
men and guns landed at Saloniki
and part of the achievements is be-
ing sent to Monastir, where the Ser
bians also are reported to be concen-
trating and threatening the Bulgar-
ians.
Rumania finds herself in much the
same position as Greece, with both
the entente allies and the central
powers bringing pressure to bear
upon her. The Germans, it is said,
are asking Rumania to give assur-
ances of her continued neutrality
and also are offering her concessions
if she intervenes in the war on the
side of the Teutonic allies. With a.
big Russian army in Bessarabia,
however, it is believed in military
circles here, hardly likely that Ru-
mania will accept the second alter
native. On the whole it is expected
here that the firm attitude of the
entente powers toward Greece will
clear the Balkan situation before
very long.
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