Show VICTORY IN NEAR EAST EASTIS IS IS' FORECAST Optimistic Reports Concerning Gallipoli Operations London Predictions London Predictions Freely Made That Allies Soon W Will II Force Dardanelles Straits Straits' AID OF BALKAN STATES STATES' AGAINST AUSTRIA SOUGHT Roumania Wants Assurances Bulgaria Will Not Attack Her Before Moving Troops Troops- Serbia Expected to Make Concessions Asked of Her Her- RUSSIANS FALLING BACK Turkish Headquarters on the I 1 I Gallipoli Peninsula Aug 23 via I London Aug 25 a. a HL m.- m. I Absolute confidence in the Turkish I troops and their ability to hold the I II I peninsula even should other allied I i reinforcements arrive were expressed expressed expressed ex- ex 1 pressed today by the commander of II i ithe ithe I the Fifth army Field Marshal Marshal Liman LiJUan yon Sanders Pasha in an ant interView with the Associated I I t Press I The The allies i the pasha said I have been here four months less I three days das What ground they I II j I have they hold by virtue of their I naval g gunfire superiority Let th the cl clI I I allies go beyond the range of their guns and their troops depend en- en i en-i upon themselves and ancl they will discover what real war is upon the peninsula I repeat that we have every reason for viewing the I future without worry I T LONDON ONDON Aug 24 Optimistic Optimistic reports re- re ports concerning concerning- operations on the Gallipoli peninsula have ha been in iu circulation for the thc past few days s 's and amI prophesies are freely made that a 3 few fo weeks will s see sec c the cl close se of the allies allies' t most difficult task in the ne near r cast east In fact it is felt here now that so far as s the Dardanelles arc concerned it is a n matter matte of indifference to tho the allies whether the Balkan states lend lenda a hand Their assistance is want wanted d however ho against Austria and anti also to ton slim Turkish resistance tance after the tho V the straits its arc opened For FoI these those reasons negotiations ne with the tile near eastern eastern astern capitals are beina watched with Interest t. t and the decision lon lonor of or Serbia on the lie proposals of the quadruple quad quati ruple entente for satisfying the aspirations aspirations of or Bulgaria which will will be be reached at a council of or ministers i to tomorrow to- to I morrow Is anxiously awaited ct rc Aid tid It i Is believed in London that Serbia's Serta's reply will prove pro satisfactory and that Bulgaria's operation co-operation will be as assured as- as S- S cured This would ope open II the Wa way also for fOI or an active o poIl policy on th the part hart of or Rp Hou- Hou mania who wants assurances Bulgaria will Ill not ilot attack her before sho t com commences corn corn- m- m to lo move her troops It Is expected all 1111 these questions will be settled satisfactorily to tho tio allies and that within the same period the future policy of or Greece will be defInitely definitely def def- announced It Is reported has ordered stock In Inthe Inthe inthe that all the railway rolling the kingdom bo be b placed at H the disposal of the minister of or war September 1 14 I In ii t tho h a in meantime en n I rn e Au Austro s t ro 0 e nfl a a armies are aro aiming more heavy blows at Russia In the hope hop of or putting her heron heron heron on the defensive Indefinitely I and permitting permitting permuting per per- muting the thc removal al of or somo sonio of or their own troops to lo other fronts particularly Serbia and Ital Italy in iii the hope of or r repeating re- re their thel eastern successes l b by n nl Victory L The Russians are art ou eu now now- ever ii h by their naval victory In tho the Gulf GuU of Riga a. which has delayed Field Marshal Mar r von on great outflanking outflank outflank- ing movement through thOrough Courland and andare are arc offering er very stiff resistance at almost er c every point In the Baltic ro inces I While hUe the Russians arc are falling back east cast and south of it Is e ex explained x- x 11 h by Petro Petrograd md that this tills was as n to to prevent ent thorn from being outflanked They still hold both banks of tho the 1 river from Pren Just south of no Ko southward southard to one of or th the new lIew fortresses still h hold held ld b by them On nil all sides of the tho Austro claim to be mak- mak big Ing ng progress while well to the lie southeast south south- cast east of the fortress the Austrian re report report report re- re port their cavalry ca has hns entered Kc el an Important railway rall Junction on tho lines Ines to Kiev and ana |