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Show GREEKS MOBILIZE BI LAND AND SEA PREPARATION OF MILITARY AND NAVAL FORCE ORDERED AS MEASURE OF PRUDENCE. Bulgaria and Turkey, for Many Years Sworn Enemies, Have Composed Their Differences. Balkan States Ready for Emergency. London. As a "measure of elementary ele-mentary prudence," Greece has ordered or-dered the mobilization of her naval and military forces. Thus the action of Bulgaria in making military preparations prep-arations has brought the last remaining remain-ing Balkan state under arms, for Rou-mania, Rou-mania, while not fully mobilized, for some time has had her troops ready for an emergency. Wlhat plans Bulgaria really has in mind and what Greece and Roumania will do when these plans mature, are. still matters for speculation. One thing seems clear, however. Bulgaria and Turkey, for so many years sworn enemies, have composed their differences. differ-ences. The successes which the Russian general, Ivanoff, has been having in Galicia and Volhynia, it is considered in military circles here, may still have an influence in more than one way in the Balkans. General Ivanoff has been so successful suc-cessful that the German field marshal, mar-shal, Von Mackensen, who is fighting north of the Pripet marshes eastward of Brest-Litovsk, according to the German official report, has been compelled com-pelled to withdraw his line somewhat, as it was in danger of being encircled, while the Austrians have been driven back 'across the Styr and have evacuated evac-uated the fortress of Lutsk, in the Volhynian triangle of fortresses, which they captured during the great drive. |