Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-12-16
Bulgarians Already Reported to
Have Crossed Hellenic From
tier in Pursuit of Allies Re-
firing from Serbia.
Germany ASKS QUESTION
Wants to Know Whether or Not
Athens Cabinet Considers AL
lies Occupation of Greek
Territory a Violation of Neu.
traIity.

London. Dec. 14.-The next big battle
will in all probability be fought in
Greece. despite the efforts of the Hell
lenic King and government to save their
country from the horrors OF war.
The British and French forces have
made good their retirement down the
Nardar valley and are now approaching
Saloniki. where reinforcements are being
landed. while reports received in Paris
and Rome say that the Bulgarians have
crossed the Greek frontier in pursuit.
The reports of such action by the Bull
garians comes somewhat as n surprise
as it had been thought that such a
move by them would provoke the Greeks
and that consequently If the entente
allies are followed at all the task would
he allotted to the Austrians and Ger
mans.
Greece's situation automatically has
been complicated by the request Of Ger
many to know whether the Athens cab
met does not look upon the use OF Greek
territory by the entente allies as a
breach of her neutrality, and this inquiry
is considered to foreshadow German
participation in the pursuit. However,
it is not believed here that the Germans
have many troops In that part of the
Balkans, their main forces having been
diverted to Rustchuk, when the Russian
threat Of an invasion of Bulgaria seem
cd likely of fulfllment. and that there
fore the entente troops for the present
only have to fear the Bulgarians, as the
Austrians are still being occupied in
Montenegro and Albania, where the
Montenegrins and Serbians are keeping
up a stubborn resistance. It has again
been reported that the Italians have
landed An army or the Albanian coast
to go to the assistance of the Serbs and
Montenegrins.
There has been more fighting on the
Galllpoli peninsula. The Turks here
claim to have repulsed an attack
against their left wing at Seddu'
Bahr The Turkish official accounts
say nothing new has occurred at Kut.
El-Amara where the Turks are op.
Grating against the British who re
tired from the Ragdad region. This
is taken in military circles here as
an admission or the part Of the Turk:
that their attacks on the British posi-
tion in the Tigris river have failed.
Previous reports of the losses the
TURKS lnfllCted on the British Wher
the British retired down the river are
declared in private Information now
reaching I.ondon to have beer eXag,
gerated. For example. the three YES,
sells which they captured turn gu
to have been "A tug boat and two
barges.
The Italians are still hammerinf
away at the Austrian positions around
Gorilla Tho town of Gorilla itself
has again been bombarded. Austrian
officers who have been through many
COMPARTMENTS on the eastern from
describe the Italian artillery fire az
more terrific and continuous than any
they have previously experienced.
The appointment Of General Sir Iioracl
Smith-Dorrien to the supreme comman
of the forces operating In East Afric;
means that the British are taking step,
in an endeaVor to clear the Germans GU
of the only colony that remains to them
except a small part of the Kamcruns
The Germans are in strong force in Eas
Africa, but General Smith Dorrien Wit
the army that is being raised in Sout
Africa, the troops who are already Their
and those who are going from home
hopes to complete his new job in shor
order. The commander. like the men un
der him., is experienced in African war
fare,