SALONICA TO BE HELD.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15460, 13 December 1915, Page 7

SALONICA TO BE HELD.

PREPARATIONS FOR J DEFENCE. A SERIOUS SITUATION. PARIS.. December 11. The ''Temps" says the Allies have decided to remain at Salonica and to send sufficient reinforcements to enable them to resume the offensive under favourable conditions. Other telegram, say it is estimated that I.jO.OC'O Anglo-French troops are facing 2ol),00v) Bulgarians and loO.GOi) Germans. At least 2-j'O.OOO troops are required to fortify Salonica, where the geographical conformation makes its defence difficult, apart from the danger of the Greek army entrenched on the hill commanding the town. (Received December Uth, 0.0 p.m.) LONDON. December 11. Renter's correspondent at Athens says a portion of the Greek troops at Salonica have been removed lest they impede the Allies' measures to place the town in a state of defence. ("Tiroes" and "Sydney Sui." S"crvic;.= .l (Received December llth, 0.-j p.m.) LONDON, December 10. The Paris correspondent of the "Daily Mail" says the necessity for the Allied "War Council to meet on four successive day- indicates the difficulty of the problems confronting them. Everybody is asking: "What is going to happen in the Balkans?" Iliere is no disguising the opinion held in military and diplomatic circles that the aituation causing the gravest, anxiety. Everything points to the Expeditionary Force, deprived of reinforcements, depending lor supplies on the line between Salonica and the front, and obliged to face a Balkan winter, being forced to retire on the Salonica region. CBy Cable. —Frcsn Association. —Copyright.) ROME, December 10. Dr. Dillon, correspondent- of tho "Daily Telegraph," says that never was the need for unanimity and co-operation more indispensable than to-day. An error of judgment, coupled with a prompt decision, was preferable to .hesitation and delay. Tncre ua, good reason to believo that in the event of tho abandonment of the Balkan expedition Greece and Roumauia would probably join with Austria and Germany, thus depriving the Entente of one million fighting men, and making them available to their enemies. This was vital, because at this moment every man counts. On the "West front, in Egypt, and in the Near East, everything possiblA ought to ho done to swell tho ranks of the Allies. He believed that the remnants of the Serbian army were reorganising, but from everything that ho knew he was still disposed to regard the military situation as grave.

SYDNEY, December 11. -An outbreak of anti-Greek rioting occurred at Newcastle. The holdier* nnd a mob paraded the town, arid smashed the windows of Greek shops. Tho police were powerless, but finally the men dispersed.

LONDON. December 10. The "Vossische Zeitung," in discussing the future of Serbia, states that the prevailing Huncarian view i s that it would bo unwise to incorporate Serbia with Austria-Hungary, as it wouid ineroaso the Slars to a dangerous extent.