Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-19
ENTENTE ADOPTS
STERN MEASURES
TOWARD GREECE
Athens Is Ordered to Hand
Passports to Representa-
tivcs Of Central Powers.
FRANCO-BRITISH TROOPS
ARE LANDED AT CORlNTH
Allies Now Have Line of Bases
Almost Surrounding Hell
lenic Kingdom.
READY TO ENFORCE DEMANDS
TcutouS Claim That They Have Been
Victorious Against Rus
sian Drive.
READY TO ENFORCE DEMANDS
Tcutons Claim That They Have Been
Victorious Against Rus
sian Drive.

Especial Cable to The Times Dispatch.i
LONDON, January lS.--From - 30
litical point OF view, Greece has a.alu
become a center OF great interest. l;c-
ports say that the entente allies have
ordered Greece to hand passports t.
the representatives OF the central
powers and their allies in the kingdom.
and that British and French troops
have been landed at corinth, forty
eight miles west OF Athens. II the
latter report is true the entente allies
now have II line of bases almost sur
rounding Cireccc--;t Salonlsi the
east at Corinth on the south. and at
Corfu on the west
With the ending Of the MontcncSrin
campaign by the capitulation Of the
MontcneCrins 10 the Austro hungarian
forces. hostilitics for the moment have
ceased in the Balkans although Il dis
patch from Athens reports the drop
pin. OF bombs by Twenty-Five French
"eroplancs OF a Bulgarian position
northeast OF Salonilii. Hundreds OF
EulGarians are declared to have hccn
killed IN this attack. and Il very large
number wounded.
anew YEARS ntTrLE"
HAS COME To CLOSE
rhc Russian offensive lauuchcd
against the .Austro- hungarian lines IN
East Galicia aua alou:, the Ecssarabinn
frontier or Christmas Eve. described
as the New Years battle" came to an
end january 10, according tn tho AUS
I tro- Hungarian War Omcc, with tho
Tcntons holding AL their lines on tho
eighty mile front, having inflicted
losses on tho Russians estimated at
1000 men ki,lcu or wounded and 5000
captured.
That this ends only one phase OF the
offensive, however. is indicated by the
Austrian official statement that Russian
e-enforcements are being thrown into
East Calicia. The Austrilns all along
have considered that the big Russian
offensive WAS undertaken with tho dual
purpose of lessening the strain on the
entente allies in the balkans and pos
/ sibly OF causing Roumani:t TO enter the
war on the side Of the entente allies
GERMANS ARE REPORTED
! EvACUATING yOLnNNIA
Unofficial adviccs from kicv arc that
the Germans are cvacuItinS Lutsk, one
of the triangle OF fortresses III Vol
hyuia around which there was san.
! culinary lighting last fail
! still farther north 10 the southeast
/ OF Riga and south ot Widsy. the Rus
SLAMS during 4 snowstorm made sur
prise attacks against German posts and
destroyed them.
The British and French on the west
crn line continue their artillery duels
with the Germans. Paris reports the
shattering OF German trenches in the
region Of Moulin Sous Toutvent ana
the damaging OF Il German position IN
the Nosses. while the British record
the IpStructiOn o. la pr
the parapets OF the Germans with the
explosion OF q mine near Fricourt. The
Germans are declared 20 have suffered
considerably from tile British shell
dire which followed. one French and
TWO British aeroplanes have been
brought down by the Germans in the
western thcater,
Usual artillery engagements continue
along the. Austro-ltal!an front
VIOLENT sNowsroRMs
FAII. TO HEI.r TURKS
Violent Snowstorms in the Caucasus
have not ended the Russian offcnsive
against the Turks who are declared hv
icunstantinoplc I" he battling hard
against tn" superior forces OF the in
vadcrs l'etro.rad reports the cap
ture az twenty y-four Turkish officers
and more than 200 uen and quantities
OF rides. war materials, tents and pro-
visions IN this region
Nothing additional has come through
concerning the situation IN Mcso-
p"tam'a. where last accounts had tho
Ertish forging ahead against the
lafNs III ." endeavor 10 bring aid 10
III" British forces beleaguerc,. in
kut. cl-.\nara
n,