St. John's Daily Star, 1916-10-18

              the st john's daily star newfoundland volume il 3.00 per annum wednesday october 18,1916 price one cent no 243 anti-allied demonstrations in athens big mob parades the capital of greece declaring loyalty to king constantine graeco-entente street clashes feared forces of allies seize greek public buildings and lively riots ensue marines from ships of the entente powers occupy piraeus railway sta tion and several buildings in athens and swarms of greeks parade the streets of the greek capital cheering for constantine—crowds hiss french admiral—clashes between the population and the en tente forces are expected—rioting greeks appeal to the american ambassador protesting the action of the allies in landing armed forces * athens oct 18.—marines from the ships of the entente powers occupied the railway station at the piraeus and several buildings in athens immediately this became known the streets of athens swarmed with greeks frantically cheering constantine and chanting the greek national anthem great crowds marched through the streets thousands gathering in the neighborhood of the post office square war minister genl dracos ordered out the greek troops and marines to guard every approach to the square in order to,prevent any clash between the greek civilians and the french who occupied that section establishing complete cordun about the french and taking all precautions to avoid any incident or accident capable of starting strife it is impossible to predict whether trouble can be prevented through out the night the greek government is fully alive to the fact that greece's fate hangs'on the prevention of further measures on the part of the french com mander earlier in the day a review by king constantine of the sailors be longing to the vessels of the greek navy which were taken possession of b the entente allies was made the occasion of an immense royalist demcnstra tion crowds parading the streets hauling life-sized portraits of the sove reign and wildly cheering for the monarch admiral damianos minister of marine read an orders of the day praising the loyalty of the sailors and complimenting them on their conduct under the most trying circumstances after the ceremony the king assembled the officers about him and addressed them personally expressing pride that they had scorned offers of money and hon ors and had remained faithful to their oath to their country he gave his word he would stand by them against whatever consequences their loyalty might entail . the king issued the following order of the day to the officers and sailors • in these hours when stricken and with bleeding hearts each new moment makes new wounds deep in our souls which so short a time ago were proud of united and victorious greece my gov ernment has.been obliged to order you to leave the ships upon which you brought the news of the free ing of our liberated brethren you came with tortured hearts eyes wet with tears every man faithful to his oath i thank you not only as king and chief of the fleet but as repre sentative of the fatherland you love so much which you have giv en so much for and are ready to suffer all . may our hopes soon be realis ed and may the hour soon come | when you will be able to return to your ships the holy ikons that have pro tected you in the.past will protect you in the future and our glorious flag once more caught by the winds of greek seas will bring hope and consolation wherever greek hearts beat for nation and king athens oct 18.—the british legation explains the landing of marines at athens and the pira eus as biihg erely for the purpose of preventing demonstrations like those of this morning allied action will wait on decision of americans powers of the entente will make no represent a tions regarding the raids conducted by u-53 until they learn the official attitude of the united states regarding this matter jondon oct 18—the british gov u eminent will make no official re presentation to the united states con cerning the german submarine u-53 pending the anouncement of its atti titude by the american government said viscount grey in the house of lords to-d_y in reply to a question concerning the attitude of the united states towards british patrols viscount grey said ihe united states admitted the british ships were not exceeding their legal rights un der international law but that the am merican government complained that their presence was ground for irritation which the continued presence of belli gerent warships off the coast of the u s naturally caused the mind of the country he declared the united states re quested great britain very emphatic ally not lo patrol off its coast and said instructions were sent to british ships there to avoid causing any unnecessary irritation an to comply as far as pos sible wth the amercan request with regard to u-53 the foreign secretary continued we do not know what steps were taken by the united states for patrolling its waters or with regard to her commander coming into port and securing information from the newspapers we do not know whether it is true ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ acclaimed by athens rioters king constantne and queen sophie ( following the landing of french marines at athens and their seizure c of certain public buildings crowds of rioters paraded the streets of the greek capital acclaiming king constantine and denouncing the allies king issues order to the evicted sailors london oct 18—a despatch o reiitevs telegraph co from athens says the situation appears dangerous there have been royalist demonstrations in the streets and admiral du furnett commander of the entente fleet in the mediterranean was hissed detachments of french sailors ■ were driven back by hostile crowds * a procession of some 4,000 malcontents headed by the greek and american flags stopped out side the american legation and protested against the landing of foreign marines and demanded the protection of the american minister who was absent the demonstrators then parad ed the streets singing the greek national anthem roumanians tenaciously hold back enemy forces very revere fighting occurs in the transylvanian lasses with the rumanians successfully s ithstanding german assaults—bad weath f in the alps—bombardments on the somme i ondcii oct 18.—volhynia galicia and iransylvania are still points where the severest fighting is taking place along the somme front in france bombardments alone have prevailed except at berry-en-santerre where the germans threw two attacks against the french only to be repulsed in macedonia hostilities have been confined mainly to patrol engagements and artillery duels bad weather has set in throughout the austro-italian theatre with snow in the.mountains and rain in the val leys little fighting of moment has taken phce in tjansytvania the rumanians fighting the border passes con tinue to tenaciously hold back the aus tro-germans almost everywhere in the uzul valley they have driven the invaders back across the rumanian border ix ix rumanian troops shorten their lines london oct 17.—the times cor respondent with the roumanian forces telegraphs roumanian troops west of the lasso began an orderly retirement from then position on the evening of october bth passing brasse burning by night to-day they are taking up positions in the foothold defending the entrance to the predell pass this movement _ represents a redis tribution in order to shorten the line and was not in the slightest degree forced by any local necessity with the long western front which the romanians had to defend in face of the increasing numbers of teutons it was deemed wiser not to expose advanced positions to any sudden manoeuvres during the retirement ondon oct 17—latest despatches from bucharest show that fighting of an extremely bitter character is still going on in all the transylvanian passes according to a news despatch from roumania the retreat from transyl vania was chiefly due to the heavy guns of the austro-germans which outranged the roumanian artillery military experts direct attention chiefly to predell and buxon passes the former leading directly to valu able oil fields while the latter is on the road to the railway junction of buxon connecting bucharest with northern roumania and russia in neither of these passes have the invaders made any serious headway battalion wiped out by rumanian fire bucharest official).—in the uzul valley the enemy has been driven back beyond the frontier our artillery caught under its fire an enemy battal ion advancing in massed formation among the killed of this battalion has been found the body of the command er we captured 58 machine guns rumanian stand berlin oct 18.—the rumanian troops in transylvania are making a stand at the frontier passes against the teutonic armies the german army headquarters announced to-day no notable:change in the situation is reported in the statement swiss protesting recent agreement made with germany geneva oct 18.—the swiss gov ernment in consequence of recent economic arrangements with ger many has prohibited swiss factories from export of ammunition to the en j tente allies/if they are using german coal or steel this order will render idle over 50 000 men among whom there is much discontent proprietors of factories met to-day an.d protested against the order argu ing that switzedland received belgian not german coal and that the allies supply material for their ammunition ■!■ | ■■_■_■_-■ _.■■■■ ——_. i _■—__.—__ l 1,1 i — | 1,1.1 .—„,„■■■, .- the german were not even in touch with the roumanian troops and the movement has been made quietly and entirely without panic or the smallest demoralization among the roumani ans n stephano's crew arrive at halifax en route to homes halifax oct 18 twenty-two men of the crew of the stephano which was sunk by the german submarine u-53 arrived to-night from new york they came by steamer which left n y jon saturday and which followed along the shore within the three-mile limit until darkness fell when a straight course was made for the open atlantic the usual track of steamers was avoid ed these who have arrived here all be long to newfoundland their homes be ing st johivs to which port they are now bound expecting to leave to morrow via the cape breton route jhe captain of the stephano re mained at new york force the belgians to do their war work london oct 17.—the amsterdam : correspondent of the exchange tele : graph company wires the following i three t hundred workmen in a ghent factory who refused to work in gei 1 man munition factories in belgium . have been arrested and sent to ger many twelve who resisted were shot the germans everywhere are k forcing the belgians to work for them particularly on the railways continuued on page 2 go to bowring's - ». ■ for , ts mm jq r vbmwml f>t / v black oy navy serge fanfcy tweeds j nevest up-to-date v styles prices from 7.50 up to 22.50 bowring brothers limited