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Show : WITH BULGARIANS TWO MORE NATIONS DRAGGED INTO MAELSTROM OF THE EUROPEAN WAR. Greek Troops Engage Bulgarians In Bloody Battle in Greek Macedonia. Mace-donia. Roumania Has Mobilized Mobil-ized Immense Army. London. Events in the Balkans, following each other with dazzling rapidity, threaten to drag two more nations, Roumania and Greece, into the maelstrom of the European war. The crisis has admittedly been reached in Bucharest, while Greek troops, by engaging the Bulgarians in a bloody battle in Greek Macedonia, may lead the Athens government tc enter the arena, even against its own desire. A startling new phase of the situation situa-tion reached the public eye for the first time on Tuesday, with the news that Roumania has completely mobilized mobil-ized her army of 800,000 and that Russia has landed more troops at Saloniki to co-operate -with the British, Brit-ish, French, Italians and Serbians. Both these important developments now weeks old, have been religiously withheld from public knowledge by the entente censors. The news was allowed to leak out without comment by officials. The first Russian detachment landed land-ed at Saloniki on July 31. Since that time additional Russian corps have arrived, a dispatch from Saloniki reporting re-porting the arrival of new forces nc later than Tuesday. The majority of the Russians already al-ready have been sent to the front where they are fighting side by side with the Serbians in the Fiorina dis-frict dis-frict on the allied left. They are under un-der command of General Friederictsj and the first groups came from Franc and Mesopotamia, where they hat Joined the French and Britisn, respectively, re-spectively, during the winter. Latei arrivals are said to have traveled all the way from Archangel. Berlin admittedly views the situation situa-tion in Roumania in the gravest light, tiut the unexpected development oi Greek troops, acting on their own initiative, engaging the Bulgarians in battle makes the position of Greece . even more important. |