Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1915 — FOUR NATIONS PREPARE FOR HOSTILITIES [ARTICLE]

FOUR NATIONS PREPARE FOR HOSTILITIES

Greece, Servia, Roumania and Bulgaria May Be Drawn Into i New Conflict. • . * London, Jan. 3.—The persevering steps which have been taken to bring about an understanding between the Christian Balkan states and with the Idea of effecting the neutrality of Bulgaria apparently have not met with complete success, according to dispatches received in London from the near eastern capitals, and Greece, Servia and Roumania are preparing for eventualities. During a discussion of the budget in the Greek chamber of deputies, M. Theokotis is reported to have declared that the speech recently delivered by the Bulgarian .which Bulgaria considered should have been ceded to it after the last Balkan war, constituted a menace: while the Greek minister of finance said that Greece was making urgent military preparations to maintain its liberated territory. Another dispatch from Athens says the Greek government has forbidden the exportation of cereals, flour, cattle, forage and arms. Should Bulgaria, contrary to expectations, attack Servia with the object of recovering Macedonia, Greece by its treaty obligations would, it is thought in political circles here, come to the assistance of Servia and the Balkan peninsula would be in the throes of a third war. • Turkey apparently expects jom-e trouble, as the Ottoman government has expelled the subjects of all neutral countries from the Dardanelles. > In Albania the revolution is said to be spreading and the Italians, who occupied the seaport of Avion a, have sent a bishop to Durazzo to protect Italian interests at the Albanian port.