ALLIED DEFENCE ROUND SALONIKA.
POSITION OF GREAT NATURAL STRENGTH. " SEMI-CmCTJLAR LINE OF FIFTY MILES TO BE HELD. (Received 8.50 a.m.) '""*• LONDON, December 29. Router's correspondent at the British Headquarters at Macedonia says that few sites are better adapted to scientific defence. The position recalls • Chatalja, but the valley is broader and the hills higher. The lines run in a fifty miles' semi-circle, from Valdar to Gualfrendina, of which half is naturally defended by Lakes Langaza and Beshik. Many morasses girdle hills southward and guard the approaches to Salonika, famishing admirable emplacements for guns and machine-guns. We are utilising some barbed-wire entanglements which the Turks constructed in the first Balkan war. The region is full of historic interest, and the trench diggers continually unearth coins, statuettes and pottery.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 310, 30 December 1915, Page 5
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