The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-16
ITALIAN PRINCE
TO BE KING OF
CREEKS, REPORT
Allies About to Order King
Constantine DepOsed.
This Move Has Approval of
VenizelOS Rebels.
REVIVE SALONIKI CAMPAIGN
Entente Army VIII Move to Cut
Turk Railroad.
Visit of Gen. Won Fa1kenhayn
This Move Has Approval of
VeniZelOS Rebels.
REVIVE SALONIKI CAMPAIGN
Visit of Gen. Won Falkenhayn
in Greece Sensation.

New York. Jan. 16.-"It is under
stood that King Constantine of Greece
will be deposed and an italian prince
placed on the Greek throne" declared
a special dispatch from Rome publish
ed today by the New York Tribune
This action" the dispatch con-
tinues, according to report, has the
full approval of the Venizelos faction.
The decision is said to have been
reached at the recent conference of
entente leaders here.
The Tribune dispatch added that the
Duke of Aosta has been chosen as
Corstantine's successor, but has not
yet accepted.
Must Cut Turk Railroad.
London, Jan 16.-The allied army
on the Saloniki front will be rem
forced as a preliminary to an effort
to cut the Berlin onstantinople rail-
road according to a dispatch from
British correspondent with General
SaraiIs forces The writer lays 1t down
as the most urgent task of the salon
Xxi army to cut the railroad ana shue
off Germany from the supples Oh
foodstuffs and men which she is draw
ing from Asia Minor. He describes
Germany is developing on sclentlIlc
lines while it is also the home OF =
600. 900 magnificent fighters, VINO ne
saws. are being trained and drilled I'M
der German instructors.
"Only by cutting the railroad, the
correspondent writes, can TINS pro
cess be stopped and this is the only
justification for maintaining our eX-
nensive but hitherto inadequate force
in Macedonia. 1t can only be hopeu
that the achievements that will ar
rive in 1917 will make 1t possible py
next New Years day to nave got
a stride of the vital trans-Balkan rail-
way
The checking of German expansion
in the near east is specified by the
CORRESPONDENT as an even greater END
to be aimed at by the allied army he
declares that the Germans plans 10
establish themselves at Salonlkl as
stepping stone to near eastern Eli, EN-
pire and that the entente powers must
fashion the Balkans so as to build d
Slav dam across the tideway of Ger
man ambition
On Mysterious Visit in Greece.
London, Jan. 16.-The presence in
Greece of General Won Falkenhayn,
former German chief of staff, and of
late in command of part of the forces
engaged in the campaign against Ru-
I d.
quarters at Saloniki, according to a
Reuter- dispatch from that point. Gen
eral Won Falkenhayn is said to have
embarked on a submarine at the
Greek port of Kavala, now in the
hands of the Germans and to have
landed at a point on the Greek coast
whence he made his way to Larissa.
The absence of his name from the
official Berlin war reports has been
noted for some days.
| Previous messages from Saloniki
said it was General Baron Won Falken-
| hansen, member of the German artil-
| lery commission which went to Greece
! in 1915, who made the trip in the
| submarine.
Has Wireless to Berlin.
| Paris. Jan. ia Havas dispatch
| from Saloniki dated January Is says
/ the Greek government has con-
! structed hastily a wireless station at
Larissa and is in constant communi-
cation in code with Berlin. The en-
/ tente ministers are still in the harboI
| at Keratsini, near Athens