The Elbert County tribune., 1916-10-20
TROOPS RUSHED TO GUARD THE
FRENCH SAILORS FROM
RoYALIST RIOTERS.
RUSSIANS ARE ROUTED
BERLIN REPORTS SIGNAL TRI.
UMPH OVER FORCES SEEK
ING TO TAKE LEMEERG.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Athens.-Marines from the ships OF
the entente powers to the number OF
about a thousand have been landed at
Pireus and have occupied the railway
station at PirRus and several build
ings in Athens.
Immediately this became known the
streets OF Athens swarmed with
Greeks frantically cheering King Con
stantine and chanting the Greek ma
tional anthem. Great crowds marched
through the streets, thousands gath
ering in the neighborhood OF the post
office square. The war minister. Gen
Dracos, ordered out Greek troops and
marines to guard every approach to
tho square and in order to prevent
any clash between Greek civilians and
the French, who occupied that section.
establishing a complete Gordon about
the French and taking all precautions
to avoid any incident or accident cap
able of starting strife.
The entente allies have taken over
the Greek battleships Kilkis CORNER
ly the United States battleship Idaho)
the Lemnos formerly the MississippD
and the Averoff, says Reuters Athens
correspondent.
Allied crews were put aboard the
battleships, according to the CORE
spondent, and Greek crews were land
ed and sent to Athens.
On Oct II the allies took over the
entire Greek fleet except the Kilkis,
Lemnos and Averoff. This measure.
1t was explained unofficially, was in
tended to insure the safety of the al
lied fleet. as fears had been aroused
of disturbance at points where the
war vessels. of the allies were
anchored.
London.-volhynia Galicia and
Transylvania are still the points
where the heaviest fighting is taking
place. Along the Somme in France.
bombardments alone have prevailed.
except to the east of Belloy-en-San-
terre, where the Germans threw two
vain attacks against the French. In
Macedonia the hostilities have been
confined mainly to patrol engage
ments and artillery duels. Thruout
the Austro-Italian theater little fight
ing of moment has taken place.
The Austro-Germans, according to
both Berlin and Vienna, have taken
trenches over a front of one and
quarter miles from the Russians and
made prisoner thirty officers and 1 900
men.
West of Lutsk. in Volhynia. the
Russians attacked violently many
times. but according to Vienna, were
everywhere repulsed with great
losses.
in the southern Carpathians, near
Dorna-Watra additional heights have
been taken from the Russians by the
Teutonic allies.
In Pennsylvania the Rumanians con-
tinue to hold back the Austro-Ger-
mans almost everywhere. In the
Uzul valley they have driven the in
vaders back across the Rumanian bor-
der.
London. Oct. 1S-While both the
Vienna and Berlin war offices an
nounce merely a continuation of the
fighting on the Translyvanian front
between the Austro-Ger,lan forces
and the Rumanians, the Rumaniau
army headquarters report that in the
Alt river region the troops of King
Ferdinand have occupied several po-
sitions held by the Teutonic allies. On
all the other sectors of this front, ac-
cording to Bucharest, attacks were
repulsed by the Rumanians, except in
the Burzen valley, where the Ruma-
mans were compelled to withdraw
slightly farther south
Hard fighting is going on from the
west of Lutsk, thru Galicia to the
Carpathian mountains. In Volhynia,
despite fierce attacks by both sides,
there seemingly is a stalemate.
Berlin.-British and French divis-
ions with a total of more than 1000.
600 men have been virtually annihil-
ated in the Somme battle, says the
military critic of the Overseas News
Agency.
According to figures from Swiss
sources as given by the news agency,
the Russians losses from June l to
October ? were about 100000 men.
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