The Elbert County tribune., 1915-11-26
GERMANS enter
CONSTANTINOPLE
FRENCH TROOP SHIP CAvAL-
DEs SUNK BY A SUBMARINE
AND 500 SOLDIERS KILLED.
GREEKS YIELD TO ALLIES
BUT WILL NOT PARTICIPATE IN
THE WAR-SERBs WIN
VICTORY.
Western Newspaper Union New, Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
London, Nov. 24-While no official
statement has been received here OF
Greece's reply to the entente allies
demands for guarantees for the safety
of the Anglo-French forces landed at
Saloniki or for that Of the Serbians
who might be forced over the Greek
frontier. dispatches from Athens say
the Greek Cabinet is disposed to ac-
cept the conditions laid down by the
entente powers except the condition
requiring Greece to participate in the
war, and that solution of the whole
difficulty may be expected immedi-
ately.
Meanwhile the blockade of Greek
commerce has commenced and Italy,
it is reported, is participating in the
measures of restraint decided upon.
This. with the news that the Serbians
have won a victory over the Bulgari-
ans northeast of Pristena, that the
Bulgarians have delayed their march
on Monastir and that the Austro-Ger-
mans are laboring under difficulties,
as a result of the wintry weather,
has created a more hopeful feeling in
the capitals of the entente allies.
London, Nov. 23.-A telegram from
Constantinople, by way of Bucharest,
says the first contingent of German
troops has reached that city and that
Field Marshal Won Mackensen is ex.
pected there this week.
The entente allies have demanded
that Greece either join with them and
fulfill her treaty obligations to Serbia
or demobilize, and, to impress King
Constantine that they mean what
they say. the allies have declared a
commercial blockade of the Hellenic
Empire, according to dispatches from
Athens.
There is no confirmation of these
statements available here but it is
certain that Earl Kitchener, the
British war secretary, who had an
hours audience with the King of
Greece, Saturday. and afterward saw
Premier Skouloudis, took firm stand
and told them what the allies could
and would do unless the demands
were conceded.
An Athens dispatch to the Times
says 1t is confirmed that the entente
powers have imposed restrictions on
Greek trade. The allied fleets, 1t is
added, have already begun searching
all steamers flying the Greek flag in
the AIgean and the Mediterranean.
An Athens dispatch to the Havas
agency says: After Premier Skoulou-
dis called on Earl Kitchener, the
British secretary of war, at the Brit
ish legation, the field marshal had
two hours conference with Gen.
Dousmanis. chief of the Greek gen.
eral staff, and Col. Metaxas, chief as
sistant of the general staff. at which
the officers accompanying Earl
Kitchener were present"
The French troop ship "Calvades"
has been sunk by a submarine, ac-
cording to dispatches from Athens.
1t is estimated that 500 soldiers have
been killed
1t is stated in German newspapers
that Albanian troops are trying to bar
the roads of retreat by concentrating
on the Serbian border.
The Bulgarian successes at Katchi-
max pass, Totovo and Babuna pass,
have now been confirmed, and the
Cussovo plateau, where the Serbians
expected to make last desperate re-
sistance. is now apparently open to
the invaders.
The fall of Monastir has not been
confirmed. and, according to latest
information, the Serbian army is ad-
vancing thence to meet the Bulgari-
ans, but, endangered as it is from
three different quarters-Babuna
pass, Brod and Kruzvo-there is
slight possibility of its holding out in
case the Bulgarians make real at
tempt to take it.
The Austro-German armies are now
on the borders of Novipazar, and are
approaching Pristina Thus, Old Ser.
bia, as 1t existed before the last two
Balkan wars, is completely overrun
by hostile forces.
The correspondent at Berne, Switz-
erland. of the Central News, tele-
graphs:
Diplomats understand that an Ital-
ian declaration of war on Germany Is
; only matter of hours
Allied monitors again have bonn.
barded the Belgian coast
Russia and Persia have settled
their differences and Russian troops
therefore will not advance to Te-
heran nor will the Shah leave the
city, advices from Teheran and Petro-
grad state.