Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-09-01
GREECE TO Enter
WAR, SAYSATHENS
Believed Die Will Be Cast on
Side of Entente Within Twcn-
ty-Four Hours.
ROUMANlAN FORCES PUSH ON
Austro-Hungarian Defenders Re-
tire to Second Line Along
Lower Carpathians.

Especial Gable TO The Times Dispatch l
LONDON. August 3l.--Thc speedy
entrance Of Greece into the war pos
sibly within the next twenty-four hours
Is predicted in dispatches from Athens
tonight.
Long before III, Greek elections.
which are scheduled for October s. the
army will have been modified and
fightinr under the flag Of the entente
allies. it is declared. will have begun.
King Constantine. under close guard
in his palace. is believed to have
played his last card to keep the ma
tion out Of the war. Details Of d
conference scheduled for to-day Ee-
tween Tn" monarch AMI the entente
mini. French. Russian and Brit
ish. ,crly awaited
All from Athens has been de-
lay"d from twenty-four TO orty-eight
hours for the last two weeks. and late
tonight no intimation OF the result of
this likely to he historic conference
had reached here, except possibly by
tho Foreign Office in diplomatic dis 4.
patches.
The Greek army is preparing for
active service. All staff officers on
leave have been recalled. and gen
eral mobilization order is expected
at any moment.
The Greek legation here to-day de-
MED sensational reports sent out from
Saloniki that The King had fed TO
Larissa TO seek protection under a
German Uhlan guard. and that fight
ing between allied and Greek troops
was going on around his summer home
near Athens.
ARTILLERY Is ACTIVE
on ALL BATTLE FRONTS
Artillery is active on all the battle
fronts of Europe. but only on the
Transylvania Roumauian border has in
fantry been engaged TO any extent
Bad weather hampers operations in
France: the Russians and Austro-
German forces on the eastern lire are
resting. as are the entent. forces and
the armies of the central powers in
Macedonia. and the Austrians and ItaI-
ians have yet to renew their desperate
hrhting Of a few weeks ago
Along the whole line OF the lower
Carpathians. the Rounanian armies are
reported attacking the Austro Hun
sarian forces. The defenders are said
TO have retired TO their second fortified
line.
Northeast OF Kronstadt. the Aus;ro-
Hungarian forces have taken new nosi
hons west of Csik Szercda. on tn,
Atula River. after fighting with the
Roumanians. This shove that the
troops OF King Ferdinand nave broke,
through tho mountains on the eastern
border OF TransTivauia, as we'll as on
the south. Rounanian attacks east Of
tne iron Gate. on the Danube. wer.
rcpulscd. Vienna SAYS:
!sussian troops are marching through
Dobrudja. but whether TO strike a,
bulgaria north OF varna or to aid the
koananians invading Transylvania i,
is no: known
II is reported Il Russian fee, has
arrived at Constanza. the principal
ho"manian Black Sea port. and rbe
h"icarians are said 10 fear a co.,h;pad
lana ana sea attack on Narna Rust
eh"K' Bulgaria. on the Danube. re-
port to Paris says. has been occunied
ny tho Roumanians
In Vo!hynia the Russians have 70.
pulsed German attack northeast of
kovel with severe losses.
On the Somme front French force.
nave made progress in local operation.
North OF the So;nmc there has hsan
no chance