IMMEDIATE ATTACK ON SALONIKA

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2665, 10 January 1916, Page 5

IMMEDIATE ATTACK ON SALONIKA

'ENEMY PLANS COMPLETED DOUBTS AS TO THE TURKS PARTICIPATING By Telegrapli—Press Association-Copyright (Rec. January 9, 5.5 p.m.) Athens, January 8. '' Austria, Germany, and Bulgaria hare completed plans for an immediate attack in the direction of Salonika, lhere are conflicting reports as to whether Uie Turks will participate, ULTIMATE VICTORY HAS SLIPPED FROM GERMANY., i ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) London, January 7. King Coustantine stated on December 27 that lie believed the situation had changed. Ultimate victorv had slipped from German hands, though lie expected Germany would be ablo to save her prestige. Queen Sophia is considerably depressed, owing to recent letters from her Bister, Princess Charlotte of Saxo-Mem ingen. AERIAL ATTACK ON ALLIED ENCAMPMENT. (Rec. January 0, 5.5 p.m.) Salonika, January 8. Two Taubes bombed the Allied encampments outside the town. The" damage was not serious, and they were driven off and damaged. DEFENCES AND FORTIFICATIONS OF SALONIKA. ("Times" nud Sydney "Sun" Services,) (Rec. January 8, 5.5 p.m.) London, January 7. The Serbian Finance Minister has arrived in Rome. He states that the Salo-

nika position extends across tlie Peninsula to the Gulf of Rendina, a distance of twenty-five miles, and the marshes and lakes have been fortified. The usual calculation is that the Vardar northern line, which is fifteen miles from tho cit.Vj requires 1450 men per kilometre, the lake line requiring The Anglo-French force is more than adequate for this. \

RELEASE OP CONSULS GRATIFYING TO GREECE. Athens, January 7. The newspapers arc gratified at tho Allies' announcement tliat tliey will release the enemy Consuls, and consider that tho incident is closed. HYSTERICAL EXCITEMENT OF THE GERMA-N PRESS. ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) (Roc. January 8, 5.5 p.m.) London, January 7. The German newspapers are excited. Tliey assert tliere have been a thousand arrests in Greece, which they denounce as'incredible and a violation of sovereignty, and an unparalleled act of violence which it would be impossible for Greece to tolerate. _ ■ The "Frankfurter Zeitung" says: "General Sarrail lias slapped Greece's face, and if it is returned it will fill ug with great joy." GREEK-TROOPS DEMAND WAR OR DEMOBILISATION. (Rec. January 9, 5.5 p.m.) London, January 7. Mr. W. Jefferies (the war correspondent),' writing from Salonika, states that the Generals of the 3rd "4th, and sth Greek Army Corps informed tlie Government that they would be unable to reetrain the men if tlio Turks and Bulgars appeal'. ' _ . _ A brigade mutinied at Ivavala, demanding war or demobilisation. The officers urged the men to vote for tlio Government. The men replied: "We will vote with rifles and. against you, first." The Cabinet is quarrelling. M. ltallis and M. Condourotis are fiercely, resisting a compact with Bulgaria, HAVE THE TURKS STOLEN A MARCH ON THE BULGARIANS ? BULGARIAN CO-OPERATION WITH GERMANY LESS HEARTY. ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) London, January's. Mr. W. Jefferies, the "Daily Mail's" Athens correspondent, 6tates that the Bulgarian co-operation with the Garmans in Macedonia is less hearty, while tlie Turks have reoccupied, ostensibly r for strategical reasons, the ceded portions around Dedeagatch-Adrianople railway. Tho Germans in the meanwhile are busy with steady through railway traffic between Berlin purchasing the entire. Adana cotton crop and half tho previous year's crop. They are working the great Arghana copper mine near Dabekir. As two years are required to tunnel the Taurus range at the Cilieian ga"te3 near Bozanti, on the Baghdad railway, the Geriiialis have made parallel roads, emplo; ing the largest motor lorries travelling from Bozanti to Dorok in three hours, thence the line now finished to Marmores, a distance of a hundred miles from whence tliere is a light railway to Bagtche. Thousands of natives under engineers, withdrawn from the first line of the armies, are energetically completing by spring the Bagtche-lladja section. There would be then cantiii'jous communication botween Aleppo and Constantinople, including tho Cilician motor-car link. There is rmicli uncertainty, in view of the danger of a certain railway bridge being dynamited, and the prospect of .a great offensive from Salonika, whother the Germans would risk sending to Asia the largo forces necessary lo givo them victory there.