DEMANDS ON GREECE CONCEDED
ITALIAN SUCCESS AGAINST AUSTRIA
FRENCH VICTORY ON THE SOMME
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PLEDGES HAVE NOT BEEN BROKEN
THE MEBOPOTAMIAN FAILURE
The Entente Powers have executed a sensational coup in Greece. The disposition of the Greek Fleet, and certain defensive measures which were being undertaken, caused the Entente to demand that the fleet be made impotent, forts be disarmed, and the important Piraeus-Larissa railway handed over. To the demands the Greek Government has formally acquiesced, after the King and Ministers had an all-night conference. President Wilson has decided that Germany has not broken her pledges as to the conduct of submaiine warfare. His advisers, are convinced that making the American coast a war zone must bring grave complications. The Italians have inflicted another severe reverse on the Austriane. General Cadorna's push is intended to assist Rumania, who is hard pressed in Transylvania. Sir Percy Lake's report on the operations in Mesopotamia tells of the gallant efforts of an inadequate force to cope with insurmountable difficulties. South of the Somme the French have had a brilliant victory near Chaulnes. In the Dobrudja the Russians and Rumanians are making headway, .but. in Transylvania the Eumanians report a retirement. In Macedonia the Allies confcimie to make satisfactory progress..
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Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 90, 13 October 1916, Page 7
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206DEMANDS ON GREECE CONCEDED Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 90, 13 October 1916, Page 7
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