Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-08-31
GREECE TO ENTER
CONFLICT At ONCE
IS ATHENS BELIEF
King Constantine Scheduled to
Confer With Allied Dip
Iomats Today.
TURKEY HAS DECLARED
WAR UPON RUMANIA
Serbians Reported to Have Severely
Defeated Bulgars on Mace.
donian Front.
SEVERE FIGHTING GENERAL
Rumanians Progress Over Austro-
Hungarian Frontier, Vienna Ad-
mitting Statement-Con-
sternation in Sofia.
TURKEY HAS DECLARED
WAR UPON RUMANIA
SEVERE FIGHTING GENERAL

ATHENS. Greece. August 80,
via London. August .sI.-Rapid
developments in the diplomatic
situation here today make it ap-
pear that within forty-eight hours
Greece will have abandoned the
policy OF neutrality in the war.
King Constantine will receive
the French minister tomorrow
Thursday and the Russian and
British ministers shortly after
ward.
All staff officers on leave have
been Recalled for active service.
Turkey has declared war on
Rumania. says dispatch from
Constantinople.
Bulgar Losses Placed at 5000.
LONDON. August 31.--The fighting is
very severe All a,cng the Macedonia
front. says an Athens dispatch to the
Wireless Press, which adds that the Bull
garian regiments suffered a severe
check at the hands of the Serbians on
the entente left flank and that the
Bulgarian losses are estimated at
$4,000
Tho Bulgarian regiments, says the
dispatch. attacked the Serbians in close
formation, after the German style, near
Lorovitz and suffered severely. They
were compelled to ask for reinforce
ments from valbankeni and Kastoria.
The serbians appear to be masters
of the situation at Gomichevo, says the
Athens correspondent, and Bulgarian
officers of Rumanian origin who de-
serted said the Bulgarians called Com
lcheVo another Nerdun.
Rumanians Progress.
Official announcement was made here
thai the passage of Russian troops
through Rumania has begun.
Rumanian troops have made progress
in their crossing of the Austro-Hun-
erai points, including a village east of
Kronstadt, says an official statement
given out by the Rumanian war office.
More than $50 prisoners already have
been taken.
The latest Austrian official communica-
ton admits that except northeast of
Orso.a,. on the Danube, near the Iron
Gates, where repeated Rumani attacks
were repulsed. the Austrian Hungarian
troops have been withdrawn step by step
from the frontier in accordance with pre-
arranged plans.
The enemy" says the communication
will boast of having captured Petrozeny
brasso tkronstddD and koedZi EasaI he
ly tnortheast of kronsradJ. On the
northmost front Rumanian columns are
battling in the Gyorgo mountain lin
eastern Transyivanla, eighty miles north
Of kronstadI.
In the Carpathians the Germans have
recapturned Kukui Heights, which have
been hotly contested in recent weeks"
Danube Monitor Active.
Another Austrian statement says:
"A Danube monitor almost destroyed
by fre several military establishments
near Turnu SEVERN. All passage across
the length of 500 kilometers of Hun
garian-Rumanian frontier mountains
has been closed Our frontier troops en-
tered into engagements. The enemy had
heavy losses when in touch with our
troops. especially northeast of Orsova,
near Petrozseny. the district of the
HoersoesturOny-Dr pass, and In
fights south of kronstadt tBrassoD. In
TIE nghtlns in the latter district Gkokel
Infantry Regiment No SO defended it's
native soil a ad the Gyorgyo mountains.
Ser IN nj eSr1aY re
near Gturgevo un Rumania opposite
Rustchuk) on fire"
Rumxnian Official Report.
The htest Rumanian statement fol-
lows:
''oD the western and northern fronts
Rumanian troops crossed the Austro-
Hungariaa frontier during the nigh, OF
the 2Ith. ard after fairly lively fighting
reached numerous points. including
Mount Fagatzeiu. northwest of Nyerg-
po: kissepeica Hill. west of Gyergyo
and the village Of HossezufaIu, four
kilometers tabout three miIes) east OF
kronstadt tBrasso). Our artillery fired
on orsoya. destroying petroleum de-
pot Our 4th Army Corps has taken
seven officers and 734 men prisoners.
AN armed enemy tug opened fire on
Turnu SEVERN. but retired to Orsoya
under fire of our batteries Austro-
Hungarian monitors opened fire on
Guirgevo. but were compelled to retire
by our artillery"
Bulgar Communication.
A beiated Bulgarian official item.
dated August IS. says:
Our right wing repulsed Serbian at
tacks on the Florian plain and occu-
pied new positions north of Lake Os-
trovo.
In the Moghana region we con-
lQuered the heights south Of Shorsko.
After repulsing all Anglo French
forces in the region of Seres, Drama
and Kavala and behind the Struma our
forces consolidated in ney positions