Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1914 — FORKS TO ENTER WAR [ARTICLE]

FORKS TO ENTER WAR

Russ Fleet Cruising in Black Sea Ready for Fight. Roumania Seizes Munitions Sent to Ottoman Government by Germany. London, Oct. 20.—Indications that Turkey is about to enter the European war comes from various sources. A dispatch from Bucharest states that the Russian ambassador at Constantinople has moved his official archives to Odessa; that the Russian fleet, cleared for action, Is cruising in the Black sea, and, finally, that a train with 150 carloads of artillery, ammunition and war material bound from Germany to Turkey has been seized by the Roumanian government.

In the case of the seizure of this " ar material the German envoy at Bucharest Is said to have protested, but the protest has not been heeded and the ammunition, artillery and stores remain in the possession of Roumania.

Furthermore, and no less significant, the Sublime Porte, according to a dispatch from Constantinople, has declined to grant the British request that the German crewß of the cruisers Goeben and Breslau be discharged.

On Friday It was reported by several news agencies that Germany had arranged to advance a loan of $50,000,000 to the. Ottoman government,

and it is not regarded as likely that the German government would be embarking upoh such an undertaking at the present time unless assured of the support of Turkish arms.