Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-06-30
GREECE SEWERS
RELATIONS WITH
CENTRAL POWERS
Apparently Soon Will Take
Field Against Them on al
Side of Allies.
VENIzEL0S, NEW PREMIER,
FAST FRIEND OF ENTENTE
Nations Course Began to Be
Shaped With Abdication OF
King Constantine.
BACK IN TRADITIONAL PLACE
Haig Takes 1000 Yards Of German
Positions in Region
of Oppy.
VEMIZELOS, NEW PREMIER,
FAST FRIEND OF ENTENTE
BACK IN TRADITIONAL PLACE
Haig Takes 1000 Yards Of German
Positions in Region
of Oppy.
fBy Associated Press.l


Greece has severed diplomatic rela- Z
tions with Germany and her allies. and
apparently soon will take the field
against them on the side of the entente
allies. The new Premier. Eleutherios
venizelos. in taking the oath of office.
announced that Greeces place was be-
side democracy.
The British Premier. In a notable
speech at Glasgow. reasserted that it
WAS the intention of Great Britain and
her allies to continue the war until the
objects for which they had entered 1t
were realized. The end of the war
before that time, he said. would be a
calamity for Europe. During his adj
dress the Premier made the significant
statement that the entente could enter
into conferences with a democratiZed
Germany in different spirit than they
could deal with the Prussian autocracy.,
The entente powers must fight on
until they have reached the end they
have set to attain when they accepted
Germany's challenge to civilization,
declared David Lloyd George in his
speech. ,,..t
TO permit the war to come to an end
single hour sooner would be "the
greatest disaster that ever befell man.
These uttcrances possess notable
significance at this moment, when
there have heen suggestions that the
allied powers fighting Germany might
agree TO some revision of their previ-
ously declared war aims, and at
time when hints have been coming out
OF Germany shat next weeks session
of the German Reichstag might witness
%
peace by Chancellor Won Bethmann-
liollweG. Possible point to the sug
Gested German peace movement is
given by reports of mysterious politi-
cal happenings within the German em-
pire. The impression has been given
that the expected developments would.
be Of a dramatic nature. and the press
seems to have been completely muzzlsd,
so far as discussion Of political topics
is concerned
mo doubt Germany wants peace"
declared the British Premier in his
speech. but it is peace which would
give her economic and other control
over the countries which she has in
vaded."
FRENCH AND GERMANS
IN INTENSIVE FIGHTING
The French and Germans are engaged
in intensive lighting in the region Of
Cerny and Corbeny in the Soissons-
Rheims sector. and around hill 304 and
in the Avocourt wood. near Nerdun.
while the British are continuing their
operations having the development Of
Lens as their objective.
The battle around Cerny has been
sanguinary, positions several times
changing hands, but at last reports re-
manning in the hands of the Germans,
who. after several unsuccessful at
tempts. won them from the French, but
at the cost of heavy casualties.
Southeast of Corbeny the Germans
along the Laon-Rheims road also en-.
deavored to force the French line, but,
here they were repulsed. losing heavily,
among their men. who were led by
picked battalions of storming troops.
According 10 the Berlin War Office,
the Germans have captured French po-
sitions along the Maancourt-E Esnes
road, in the Nerdun sector. 1000 meters
in length To al depth of 500 meters. and
repulsed French attacks delivered in
an cndeavor to regain the lost ground
The claim is also made that in the
Avocourt wood the Germans stormed a
French position over a front Of 800
meters.
Field Marshal Haig's forces in an
offensive in the region of Oppy have
taken German positions on front Of
1000 yards, and have forced their way
into the town of .Avion. two miles south
Of Lens In addition successful trench
raidinG operations were carried out
north OF Cherisy and southeast of Loos.
In the fghting around Oppy and south
OF the Souchez River 247 prisoners and
twelve machine guns were capturedE,y
the British. Il
Minor operations continue on the
Russian. Austro- Italian and Mace.
donian fronts. Along the Persian
Mesopotamian frontier there has been
considerable activity in which tho
Turks have forced the Russians to re-
cross the Abs Hirman River south of
Baneh.