GREEK COMMANDER GOES TO SALONIKA.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 207, 30 August 1916, Page 5

GREEK COMMANDER GOES TO SALONIKA.

HOPES TO DISPEL MISUNDERSTANDINGS WITH ALLIES. HOW THE SERBS FOILED THE BULGARIAN PLAN. ' LONDON, August 29. General Moschopoulos, the new Chief of tbe Greek General Staff, goes to Salonika to confer with the allied generals. He says be hopes to strengthen the relations between the Allies and Greece and to dispel misunderstandings. It is believed the appointment will be satisfactory to the Allies. Tbe Bulgarians have arrived at Malik, south of Lake Malik, on the north-west frontier of Greece, two hours' march from Gortzia, and are terrorising They seized in the occupied regions a large quantity of cereals stored for Greek military use. The Athens correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" writes:—"Although the kingdom is falling around them the anti-Venizelists care nothing except for the extermination of the Venizelist party. They are ready to welcome Bulgar or Turk provided he helps to attain their own object." Writing from Athens, Mr. Jeffries states: —"The Bulgarian scheme was to overcome tbe Serbians rapidly and descend as fast as an army corps could travel on old Greece, perhaps towards Athens, hoping that the general disorder would severely embarrass General j Sarrail. Although the Serbiannumbered 8.000 against 60,000 they saved the situation.'' A French official message states:- "The Serbians eastward of the Cerna Eiver made important progress in the direction of Vetrinik. They repulsed three Bulgarian attacks between Banica and Ostrovo, inflicting serious losses.. The Bulgarians have occupied various localities abandoned by the Greeks westward of Kavalla. The British monitors bombarded enemy gatherings at the mouth of the Struma River. The Bulgarian communique on Saturday, which stated that the Serbians were defeated at Kukoruz, was incorrect, instead the Serbians repeatedly defeated the Bulgarians." The "Daily Telegraph's" correspondent at Athens states that the Italian occupation of Palermo and her expulsion of Greek officials is passing unnoticed hy Greece. Germany ie anxiously concerned, as to what Greece's next »tcp will be, Zm* ag~~p_4« na the people to pr^gfre.for farther em,b*rr_i»m«nt.