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Show 1MANIAIWS London, Aug. 30. Turkey today declared de-clared war on Rumania according to a Reuter despatch from Constantinople. Constantino-ple. The action of the sublime porte followed quickly upon that of Germany. Ger-many. Bulgaria now is expected to follow government In acting Is reported re-ported to have caused much uneasiness uneasi-ness in Berlin, where It Is feared the Russophilo party Is gaining ascendancy ascend-ancy in the Bulgarian councils. In view of reports, however, that Rust-chuk, Rust-chuk, on the Danube, and Varna, the great Bulgarian Black sea port, have been both bombarded by Rumanians, it is not expected here that the Bulgarian Bul-garian government can much longer procrastinate. News of Turkey's declaration of war was received almost simultaneously with official statements from Bucharest Buch-arest and Vienna which indicate that the Rumanians are making wide inroads in-roads upon Transylvania soil. Rumanian Victories. Battling in tho mountains, tho Rumanian Ru-manian fourth army is reported by Bucharest to be within three miles ot the large industrial city of Kronstadt, one of the largest manufacturing centers cen-ters of Transylvania, The village of Hossezufalu, east of Kronstadt, has been captured and more than 7000 Austro-Hungarians havo been taken prisoner. Vienna admits a withdrawal along the whole Rumanian front, "In accordance accord-ance with plan3 provided for a long timo ago in case of war," This withdrawal, with-drawal, the Austrian war office sarcastically sarcas-tically observes, probably will lead "the enemy to boast of having occupied occu-pied Petroseny, Kronstadt '(Brasso) and Kezdl Asarhely. These, with Hermanstadt, are the principal cities within striking distance of the frontier. fron-tier. Tho official announcement from Bucharest, the first war report to be issued by the latest entrant into the world war, follows: "On the western 'and northern fronts Rumanian troops crossed the Austro-Hungarlan Austro-Hungarlan frontier during Sunday night and reached a number of points, including Mont. Fagatzelu, northwest of Nyergpe, KIssepeIca hill, west of Gyergo, and the village of Hossezufalu, Hossezufa-lu, three miles east of Kronstadt. "Our artillery fired on Orsova, wrecking a petroleum, depot. Our Fourth army corps has taken prisoner seven officers and 734 men. "An armed enemy tug bombarded Turnu Severeln, but withdrew to Orsova Or-sova under fire of our batteries. Our artillery compelled Austro-Hungarlan monitors which fired on Glugevo to withdraw." rr |
