BECOMING SERIOUS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2966, 3 January 1917, Page 5

BECOMING SERIOUS

ENTENTE'S SECOND NOTE BLOCKADE CONTINUES PORTUGAL'S ARMY IN PRANCE SENSATIONAL STORY FRENCH.READY-TO CROSS THE- ': "■"■'■■■- : "RHINE- ~ ■ .■■•■■ ■ ■"' } . To-day's messages include much interesting comment upon late developments and upon the prospects that are opening in the war. , As to events, there are suggestive activities in the Western theatre, and a continued tide of neavy fighting in Rumania. In the latter area the enemy is attacking persistently, and.the Allies hare retired to the near ■neighbourhood , of their selected defensive linfi . across Southern Moldavia. The Allies are strictly enforcing the blockade of Greece, and pressing their demands, and are reported also to be taking measures to land troops in the Gulf of Corinth, .• and.convey tHem by rail to Salonika, so as to reduce the dangers to which transports are exposed from enemy submarines. Britain has accredited the Earl of Granville as diplomatic agent to the Greek Provisional Government. A correspondent at Amsterdam dedares' that famine and revolution are in prospect in Germany.