The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-01-14
ITALY ON VERGE
|. OF ENTERING WAR
Declaration Of HostiIitles Against
~ Turkey Expected.
FORCES READY FOR ACTION
silence Following suItan's Failure "a
Reply to italian Ultlmatum In.
dIcstes Cabinet Is Preparing
70 Act.

London, Jan. 11.--Italy's silence in
the face of Turkeys failure to reply
to the Italian ultimatum, demanding
salute to the flag by six o'clock Sat
urday evening, is taken here as a GER
tain indication that the Italian cabinet
is preparing to issue declaration of
war.
All the nations of the triple entente
are expecting TO receive word that
Italy has accepted Turkeys refusal to
answer the ultimatum as a challenge
to war All the embassies here are in
a state of nervous expectancy, await
ing the impending development.
Italy's army OF 100000 men, al
ready mobilized, has been assigned to
posts for war, and that the clash be-
tween Turkey and King Victor EN-
manuels kingdom win be followed ~
a vigorous offensive against Austria
on the part of Italy is believed to be
amply foreshadowed In warlike prep
arations that have been going on on
both sides of the Austrian frontier.
London, Jan. 11.-Three more ma
lions are about to enter the war. &C.
cording to dispatches from the East.
They are Italy. Roumania and Greece.
Roumania has resolved to strike Aus
tria even If Italy does not declare war,
according to the Bucharest correspond
ent Of the London Morning Post. He
declares that Roumania is mobilizing
$4,000 men. A half million of these
win form field army.
Porte Will Not Yield.
Italy does not expect the Porte to
yield, and. according to dispatches
from Rome, has ordered the Italian
embassy staff to quit Constantinople,
turning the embassy over to United
States Ambassador Morgenthau.
AT the same time. the tension be-
tween Austria and Italy is increasing.
Austria has demanded that Italy at
once evacuate Avlona. in Albania. This
Italy has refused to do. A dispatch
from Chaiasso, on the Franco-Italian
frontier, to the London Daily Man,
says: ~..: ~. ID.
"The Milan newspaper seeolos is
informed that Count Berchtold. the
Austro- Hungarian minister for foreign
affairs, has sent to Baron Sonnino.
the Italian foreign minister, note
against Italy's occupation
of Avlona, the Albanian port Of the
Adriatic. Baron SonninO has replied |
in firm and energetic terms"
That the duel allies are preparing
for an attack from Italy Is indicated
by a dispatch from Innsbruck, by way
of Geneva, which says that a German
army corps, consisting chiefly OF
young men from Wuerttemburg, ar
rived at Salzburg by way Of Teltz and
that Austria had begun to forty the
line of Brixen-Meran-B ozen-Trente,
facing the Italian frontier.
The Daily Telegraph's Athens cor
respondent reports that the Greek gov
eminent is gravely concerned over the
increasingly strained Greaco-Turkish
relations,
The Greek diplomatic and consular
representatives in Turkey, the CORE
spondent says, are receiving intoler-
ant treatment, and the official pro
testg by the Greek minister are ig-
noTed,
Sultan Ready to Flee.
Diplomats here look for a rupture |
of diplomatic relations between Tur.
key and Italy tonight, to be followed
almost Immediately either by a dec.
laration of war or by naval or mill |
tary action which will lead to war.
That Turkey is preparing to ignore
the Italian ultimatum is indicated by |
dispatches from Sofia, Bulgaria, which |
declare that the sultan is ready to
fee from Constantinople. In these dis
patches the situation in the Turkish |
capital is described as increasingly |
alarming.