Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-18
ALLIES SEND
ULTIMATUM TO
GRECIAN KING
Demand Deliverance of Pass
ports TO Ministers al Athens
Within "a Hours
TEUTONS MASSING MEN
Have 100000 Along Border;
British Relief Expedition
Progressing
TEUTONS MASSING MEN

The situation in the Balkans, sud
denly grown tense from the allied
point of view, with the capitulation
of the Montenegrins, has entered a
new and critical phase, according to
reports through German channels,
which state that the entente powers
have demanded that Greece within
"a hours deliver their passports to
the ministers of the central powers in
Athens.
Lack of compliance by Greece
would cause the allies to take "neces-
sary measures" declare the Berlin ad-
vices, which are based ON a dispatch
from Sofa given out by the semioffi-
cial German news agency.
1t had previously been reported from
Berlin that the allies were adopting
extreme measures with Greece, land
ing troops at the ports of Athens and
giving other evidences of an inten-
ton to coerce her. 1t is even charged
by the Berlin press, according to a
wireless synopsis Of its comment sent
by the semioflicial agency, that the
allies We're preparing to dethrone
King Constantine and establish a re-
public with former Premier NeniZelos
at it's head. It was declared that ac-
cording to private reports TO Berlin
some of the Greek government
archives already had been removed to
Larissa, northwestern Greece, and
that the whole Greek government
eventually would be transferred there.
Tcutons Active
Meanwhile come additional reports
of the activities of the Teutonic allies
in the Saloniki sector. Some $4,000
troops are reported to have been mass
ed by them north of the Greek border
while the Turks. who apparently are
TO participate in the expected advance
against Saloniki. are said to have
transferred 400 guns from the
GallipoH peninsula to Nanthi, where
they would be available for use against
the allies right wing.
British Advancing
Little further news has come to
hand of the important operations in
Mesopotamia, where a British relief
force is nearing the beleaguered gar
rison at Kut- FL Amara, the Turkish
war office reporting no change in the
situation, mentioning however, the de-
struction of a British monitor about
25 miles down the Tigris from Kut.
In the Caucasus the Russians with
strong columns. are pressing their Of
fensive against the Turks, admit the
superiority of the Russian forces but
declare all the Turkish troops are
cooperating effectively against the
advancing armies of Grand Duke
Nicholas.
Operations on the western front
have been confined, as in recent days
TO aeroplane activity and artillery en-
gagements, the latter, however, hav.
! ing increased in intensity with the
advent of clear weather.
Russians Fortified
An indication that the Russians
now consider themselves we'll fortified
against any German attempt to ad.
vance along the right Dvinsk line
across the Dvina is furnished by an
announcement to-day from Petrograd
This states that the judicial and other
administrative authorities of Dvinsk
who went to Pokov, $50 miles north
| east. when their city was being threat.
ened by the Germans last year, have
now been ordered to return tC
Dvinsk.
! Entente interests appear to be
/ watching closely the situation in Al
| bania and recent advices from London
| declare that adequate forces are now
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