"THUS FAR AND NO FURTHER"

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2647, 18 December 1915, Page 5

"THUS FAR AND NO FURTHER"

THE ALLIES' STAND AT ' SALONIKA

EXPECTED ATTACK IN - THE WEST

SIGNIFICANT PREPARATIONS BY THE ENEMY •

AUSTRIA'S REPLY -TO ■ AMERICA "

Tho situation in the Balkans romains, generally speaking, as it did yesterday, That is to say, the censored cablegrams do not disclose any radical change. Delayed incidents of the recent fighting on tho Allies' front indicate that the Bulgars suffered terribly in their massed advance in face of tho terrible fire of the French "seventy-fives." Salonika, we are told, is to be held at all costs, and "until peace is signed." Tho civilian population has been requested to move out. Tho Bulgars say 'that Greek territory will not he invaded. Greece is faced with the prospect of coming to grave decisions in regard to her role in' the near future. The Central Powers claim that they should bo granted the same facilities for moving troops in Greek territory as.have been extended to the Allies. Greece, in effect, is at present on the uncomfortably sharp horns of a disagreeable dilemma. There is a somewhat sensational'report, via Holland, suggesting that the Western theatre will shortly be the'scene of a tremendous attack by the Germans. This statement, it is noted, should be rea d with reserve. Reports in a similar strain suggest tho early resumption of an Ausfcro-Gcrmaii bffensive in Galicia, and also in the Dvinsk region. Tho Austrian reply to tho American Note has been delivered. "Unsatisfactory, disappointing, and unacceptable" iB tho language-used to describe the feelings of tho American public when they read it. $