Chapter 125: A Reliable Alliance (1)

Whether Kuropatkin's plan would later be described as forced conscription armies or remain as federal allied forces like Britain's is yet unknown, but the steady infusion of troops to the Eastern Front is a very good sign.

Canadian forces arrived on the Western Front, mobilizing even 32 large passenger ships, and Australia also completed organizing its expeditionary force.

This should somewhat alleviate the British army vacuum on the Western Front that the BEF couldn't fill.

In November, Britain and France declared war on the Ottoman Empire.

Whether this was due to being lobbied by Greece, or because they couldn't suppress their greed even in this situation and wanted to annex Cyprus in the Mediterranean, at least outwardly they spared no cooperation.

Mehmed V, who had tried to maintain his crumbling empire somehow, finally declared jihad, holy war, on November 11th.