Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-10-07

touna1 declaration of war has come
this afternoon, relayed in Berlin. de-
within a few hours.
ates that the invading movement is
boundary between Austria and Serbia.
le Rumanian frontier to Belgrade, the
'tern corner of the country, and the
ary to a point not far north of the
: The Teutonic invasion marks the
beginning of the expected campaign
against Serbia and may precipitate
the crisis in the Balkans which has
been looked for. Rerent developments
have shown that Bulgaria was likely
to cooperate with Germany and Ans-
tria by attacking Serbia from de
East. A dispatch from London this
afternoon stated that it was believed.
an army of French and British troo,s
has been landed at SalonilSi, Greece,
and sent to-Serbis to assist in mest-
ing the new attack.
Mackensen Leading Drive.
There have been given out no au-
thoritative figures of the number or
Teutonic troops detached for this
, campaign. Unofficial dispatches have
estimated the number at 10000 to
100000 or more. German and Austrian
troops are said to have been dis
patched TO the Serbian front from
Russia, and ii is reported that Field
Marshal Won Mackensen. the famous
German commander is in charge OF
these operations
1n ..F tt.
these movements are in progress, vir
tually the whole Serbian north and
west borders. indicates that a large
Teutonic army is being employed.
The German plan of campaign IL
believed to be to force a way through
Serbia and if either the active as
sistance or the passive neutrality OF
Bulgaria is obtained to reach the Sea-
of Marmora and give assistance to
the Turkish army.
BY the Associated Press.
ATHENS, Oct. (via Paris Oct. I,
$40 a. m).-British troops began to
land yesterday at Salonki.
French troops are disembari<ing .
mile and half from the town and
are being concentrated in camp
located on ground conceded to Serbia
after 1913 upon which to build ware.
houses. From this point they are en-
trained as quickly as possible for
Gievgali. on the Serbian frontier. -
Bulgarians have evacuated all
buildings on the coast near Dedea-
ghatch, while the forts In that city
are being armed with long range guns
| and mine-layers are placing double
| line of mines across the port De-
deaghatch is reported to be full OF
| troops officered by Germans from
Constantlnople.
BY the United Press.
LONDON, Oct 7--All diplomatic
representatives of the allied powers
left Sofia today, according to Athens
dispatches. Hostilities on the Serho-
Bulgarian border are expected TO be-
gin before many hours, simultaneous
ly with an attack by the Austro-Ger-
mans on Serbia's northern frontier.
General Liman Won Sanders, Ger
man commander in Turkey, has arr
rived at Phillipopolis, where he is in
conference with the Bulgarian C7ar
Ferdinand Other German officers are
reported to have left Constantinople
for Bulgaria for the beginning of the
| Serbian invasion.
| The first detachments of French
| troops who landed at Salonica are re-
ported to have reached the Serbian
| frontier near Guievgueli where they
were received enthusiastically by the
Serbian patrols. Other reinforce-
ments for the Serbs are hurrying for-
ward from Salonica as rapidly az
| railway facilities will permit.
! A portion of the British press today
suggested that the allies may find q
quicker route to COnstantinople
through Bulgaria than through the
Dardanelles. There was no hint in
official circles, however, that any por-
tion of the allied troops now on Gal
lipoli peninsula might be withdrawn
and landed on Bularian soil. The dis
tance from the Suvla bay region of
Gallipoli where British troops were
recently landed in large force, to the
Bulgarian coast on the Gulf of Saros,
is less than forty miles.
Alexander Zaimis who has ac-
! cepted the task of forming a Greek
| coalition cabinet in succession to the
! Venizelos ministry. has twice before
held the office of prime minister. He
/ is a nephew of the late Premier
| Theodore Delyannis. who was assass-
! mated by a professional gambler in
June, 1905, and is the son of Thrasy-
boulos Zaimis, several times Premier
and one of the members of the ma
tional deputation delegated to offer
the crown of Greece to Prince George
of Denmark, who resigned at Athens
as King George and who was the
father Of Constantine, the present,
| Hellenic ruler.
In 1906, NJ. zaimis was appointed
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