Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1915-10-07
CENTER
SHIFTING TO
BALKANS
Representatives Of
the Allied Powers Leave
the Bulgarian Capital As
Strife Approaches

London, Oct. with the allied
diplomats reported by Athens already
10 have withdrawn from Sofia, the
mselstrom OF war today rapidly tend
ed toward engulfment OF the Balkans.
Following an unsatisfactory reply
by Bulgaria to Russia's warlike ul-
timatum and dispatch OF another Sim
liar ultimatum from Bulgaria to
Serbia, hostilities were expected soon
along the Serbo-H Hungarian border,
simultaneously with an Austro-
German attack on Serbia's northern
frontier.
General Liman Won Sanders, the
German officer in charge of Turkish
operations, has arrived at Philippe
polls and Is conferring with Car Fer
dinand Other German officers are
reported TO have gone into Bulgaria
from Constantinople for the begin
ming Of the Serbian invasion. Mean
time, reports of heavy reinforcements
of Teuton forces withdrawn from the
| Russian front were circulated, though
experts inclined to believe that the
Austro- o-Germans had not made any
serious inroads on their Russian lines
because OF the difficulty under which
they are already struggling there.
The first French forces landed at
Saloniki are reported to have reached
the Serbian frontier near Gievgeli,
where they were enthusiastically re-
ceiyed by the Serbians. Other French
/ forces continue to land at Saloniki,
according to reports today, while
British reinforcements are said to be
debarking in that vicinity. having
started this operation yesterday,
From Saloniki French troops are
going forward as rapidly as railway
facilities will permit, though the Brit
ish were reported waiting there for
supplies.
Athens is wild with excitement over
conflicting rumors about the situa-
ton. Announcement of the person
mel of the new Greek cabinet which
the king has commanded" NJ. Zai-
mis- to form. is expected tonight.
King Constantine hopes to secure
the approval Of parliament for this
new body by including in it several
members of the old cabinet who re-
signed after Premier Nenizelos did.
Reports said Germany had un.
douhtedly given Bulgaria assurance
that Greece and Roumania would re-
main neutral and that for this rea.
son Bulgaria had assumed a more
warlike tone toward Russia and Ser
bia than she might otherwise have
adopted. The Greek king is bound
by marriage ties to the kaiser, and
hence it was thought in some quar-
ters his sympathies have been sway
ed toward Germany and had deter
mined him to aid that nation in
blazing n trail to Constantinople by
keeping neutral.
Serbia had not replied early today
to the Bulgarian ultimatum demand.
ing that she cede Serbian Macedonia
within / hours The Serbian lega-
tion here presumed, however, that
Bulgaria's demands would be rejected
sharply. Similar views We're enter.
tanned in many diplomatic quarters
and mono saw any result other thar
war
4 portion of the press suggested
that the allies may have partly with
drawn from the Gallipoli operations
and landed for Bulgarian operations
From Suvla bay in the Gallpoli re
gion to the Bulgarian coast of thu
Gulf of Saros Is less than four miles
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