The Sentinel=Record

BULGARIA AND RUMANIA TO JOIN IN WAR

AGREEMENT IS REACHED THAT TWO COUNTRIES WILL LAY ASIDE DIFFERENCES.

BALKAN STATES HAVE BEEN WAITING ON ITALY

If Rumania Decides to Strike She Will Attack the Austrians in Transylvania While Bulgaria Will Choose Her Old Enemy, the Turks, as an Adversary.

London, May 22.—Only the formal declaration of war is now necessary to complete the breach between Italy and her former allies of the triple alliance, and this is expected at any moment. The ambassadors are still at their posts, but news comes that the Italian consul at Munich has been ordered to return to Rome and throughout the three countries the respective nationals are packing up their belongings in anticipation of a final and official rupture.

Should a rupture come, it is not expected that it would have any immediate effect on the battles now in progress, but it would be likely to influence the action of the Balkan states, which have been awaiting Italy's decision.

Rumania, it is reported tonight has received assurance from Bulgaria that if Rumania decides to join the allies and go to the assistance of Russia by an invasion of Transylvania, Bulgaria will not attack her and that,
Bulgaria and
Rumania to War
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In fact, Bulgaria herself is considering the possibility of taking similar action. although her attack would
be directed against Turkey.
Greece also is interested in the development and her efforts. If she
should decide to join the allies.
Would be directed toward the Dardanelles and Asia Minor. In the other theaters of operations the allies
continue their activity and the official report issued today records further
progress and confirms the dispatch sent by General Sir Ian Hamilton that in an attack on the Australian and New Zealand positions the
Turks suffered a loss of 7,000 men.
of whom 2000 were killed
This report does not mention the
operations against Smyrna. but from
Turkish and other sources it is learned
that the allies are almost as active
there as they are on the Gallipoli
peninsula
There is little or no change in the
situation on either the eastern or
western fronts of Europe The Austrians and Germans claim no further
progress in their offensive in middle

Galicia and so the British military
critics draw the conclusion that the
big battering ram which drove the
Russians castward and at some point
erossed the San river. has been
brought to a standstill against the
bulwark of the Russian front line
movements Stubborn fighting. however
still in progress and it may be days
before either side can claim a definite
result
Mention in the German official report of a cavalry engagement
in the north
of Windau indicates that the Germans
have landed another landing force on
the coast of Courland, to take the
place of the one the Russians drove
back just when it was reaching the
outskirts of Mitau. All through all
northern region and as far south as
the east Prussian frontier confused
fighting continues between widely
separated forces, which ebbs and
flows as one side or the other brings
reinforcements into the fight.
Both British and French claim to
have made headway at La Bassee but
the Germans declare all attacks have
been repulsed or the fighting continues Apparently the allies are en-
gaged in straightening out their
fronts to conform with the positions
won in recent engagements—a task
to which the Germans are offering
stubborn resistance with their numerous and cleverly placed machine guns
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