Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-12-03
After 200 Casualties Occur,
King Yields and Sur
renders Arms.
FIGHTING RESULT
MISUNDERSTANDING
admiral du FOurnet Of Entente Forces
and Greek Minister of War Say
Troops Without Orders
to Fire.
ASSOCIATED Press Summary

ASSOCIATED Press Summary
Athens, where, after a day of panic
and fighting in the streets and on the
hillsides, King Constantine yielded to
the demands of the entente powers
and agreed to surrender the artillery
demanded by the French vice admiral,
shares with the Teutonic concentra
! ton upon Bucharest and the Russian
drive in the wooded Carpathians as
centers of the war interest.
A series of engagements marking
the advance of Teutonic troops upon
Bucharest are developing into great
battle. From Berlin comes the an
nouncement that the first Rumanian
army, which had offered battle on
the Arjesh river, southeast of Piteshti,
north of the Rumanian capital. has
been broken through and defeated by
German and Austro-Hungarian troops
after a tenacious struggle. Whether
this indicates the turning of the right
wing of the Rumanian armies is not
clear. The capture of more than g.
900 Rumanian troops and 40 cannon
is announced
The fierce attacks on Rumanian
troops in the valley Of the Arjesh
river and along the road from Piteshti
10 Bucharest, compels only slight re-
tirement of the defenders, according
to the Russian war office announce
ment. The Rumanian resistance south
of Bucharest has stiffened and the
village of TZo1nana and the village of
'Gostinari have been recaptured from
the invading forces. Simultaneously,
the Russians have regained the west
ern part of the Tchernavoda bride
across the Danube, which had been
taken by the Teuton troops after the
defeat of the Russo-Rumanian army
III Dorbrudja late in October.
The fierce battle continues in the
wooded Carpathians and along the
Bukowina and Moldavian frontiers,
where the Russian counter attacks
are being delivered. Statements
fro mthe war offices show the at
tempts of the Russian and Ruman-
ian forces to break into Pennsylvania
is nowhere diminishing in violence.
The Russians have gained foothold
i'm Kirlibaba and desperate street
fighting is in progress, according to
"a Reuter- dispatch from Petrograd.
Operations OF lesser Importance are
reported from Macedonia, while artil-
lery actions have taken place along
the British front in France.
200 Casualties in Clash.
The casualties resulting from the
clash between entente and Greek
troops in Athens are not officially
announced, but have been estimated
at 200. Two Greek colonies and sew
@eral civilians we're killed. An en-
ploye Of the British legation is said
to have been mortally wounded.
The fighting began as soon as the
entente allied troops were landed to
enforce the demand for the surrender
Of the Greek guns. Two thousand
French marines, who occupied the
Zappeion, exchanged shots with the
Greek reserves, and there was an ex-
hange of shots between occupants of
the British legation and Greek force
in the square in front of that build
ing. The French legation was fired
hills back of the kings palace, and
two of the shells are reported to
have fallen near the city.
MeanWn1le, thousands OF the resi-
dents of Athens took refuge on the
Attica plain and at Thaleron. After
ward, the Dutch and Spanish minis
tiers interviewed and Vice Admiral du
Fournet has sent suggestion of
armistice to Premier Lambous. the
king consenting to surrender tht
guns. The entente force. with the
exception of guard of 300 men. was
withdraw. Admiral du Fournet as
sured the Greek commander that the
allied troops had no orders to fire on
the Greeks, and the Greek general re-
piled in similar manner. 1t was
agreed that the clash was due to a
misunderstanding.