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Show 00 BRITISH KILL . GERMAN CREW New Orleans, La., Oct 7. Instructions Instruc-tions reached the German consulate here today from Count von Bernstorff. German ambassador at Washington, to investigate and to forward to him affidavits signed by a foreman and four muleteers of the British steamship steam-ship Nlcosian, charging that marines from the British patrol boat Baralong killed the captain and ten of the crew of a German submarine after the submarine sub-marine had been Bunk. The affidavits were made by James G. Curran, Chicago; Edward Clark. Detroit; B. Emerson, Palen, New York, and Charles D. Hightowor and R. H. Crosby of Crystal City, Texas. They charge that the Incident occurred occur-red forty miles off Lundy, on August 19, while the Nlcosian was en route to Liverpool. According to their story, the submarine was Bhelling the Nlcosian when the Baralong, which they said had been flying the American Ameri-can flag, came up and sank her. When the captain and -four of the crew of the submarine climbed aboard the Nlcosian, the affidavits assort, they were killed by British marines, who also shot six of the submarine's crow struggling in tho water. Curran's affidavit stated that Le-roy Le-roy Young, an American, the Nlco-slan's Nlco-slan's second steward, reported the affair to the American consul in Liverpool, about August 25. Cnptaln Manning of tho Nlcosian and tho British consul general here declined to make any comment on tho muleteers' charges. Washington, Oct. 7. Some information informa-tion regarding tho Incldont to which the affidavits of tho Nicoslan's muleteers mule-teers refer has been received by the state department from the British nd-mlralty. nd-mlralty. It is of a confidential na-luro, na-luro, however, and will not bo made public. Secretary Lansing today declined de-clined to discuss tho matter. In the absonco of the ambassador, no one at tho Gorman embassy would comment on the Instructions to the New Orleans consulate. London, Oct 7, 10 p. m. The long threatened Austro-Gorman offensive In the Balkans, with the added menace men-ace of Bulgaria, has begun in earnest Almost simultaneously with tho rupture of diplomatic relations between be-tween Sofia and the entente powers an Austro-Gorman army estimated at 400,000 men with an enormous weight of heavy artillery, started to attack Serbia from the north and west, and, according to tho Berlin official report, re-port, crossed the Drina, Danube, and Save at many points and firmly established estab-lished Itself on the Serbian side. The Anglo-French troops, which were landed at Salonlkl with the tacit consent of the Greek government, govern-ment, are being hurried northward to assist Serbia and, if possible, keep the Bulgarians from capturing the Salonlkl-Nlsh railroad, the only source by which the Serbians can bo fed with munitions of war. The hope for support from Greece lias not been forthcoming, King Constantino Con-stantino by tho dismissal of Premier Venizelos, having shown that, whllo nis country sympaimzcs wiui iu cause of tho allies, ho Is not prepared pre-pared to go against tho central powers pow-ers or to fulfill the obligations of tho Graeco-Serbian treaty of alliance which provides that only ally must go to the assistance of tho other in case of attack. Appoint Greek Cabinet. A new Greek cabinet, composed of men of pro-German and pro-ally sympathies, sym-pathies, has been appointed with Alexander Zalmls as premier and tho expectation now Is that unless public opinion forces tho hand of tho government gov-ernment and insists on action on the side of the allies, Greece will remain neutral. It Is hardly conceivable to the entente diplomats that Greece will go over to the central powers for, they point out, Bulgaria Is known to covet some of her territory and the treatment of Greek nationals in Turkey makes It virtually impossible for her to become the ally of that country. As in Greece, public opinion In Bulgaria Bul-garia Is not entirely unanimous in support of King Ferdinand and reports re-ports indicate that the Bulgarian mobilization mob-ilization is not being carried out without with-out difficulty. Tho king and Premier Radoslavoff, however, havo finally thrown In their lot with Austra, Germany Ger-many and Turkey having rejected the demands of Russia for the dismissal of the Austro-German officers who, it is alleged, have been engaged to command the Bulgarian army. Bulgaria Bul-garia in fact denied the presence of such officers oo |