THE LANDING AT KAVALA

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 110, 5 November 1915, Page 7

THE LANDING AT KAVALA

IMPORTANT STRATEGICAL POSITION

T , r , , ■ ~ , , ~ LONDON, 4th November. The Globe, commenting on the landing at Kavala, says:—"This is the only offensive strategy that the British have yet devised, except in the Persian of 11* All™] V? V , a"d tlle ro^atcads offer an anchorpe for the whole w£ ;t 4l■ 'W , °2t " a *ern. llnlls {ot three good roads. We should oblige the Bulgarians to mass n. division at Skidie, another at T.j ssa and a *lJ d f!"'ce at p™mir H.ipr, to protect the Shruma Valley, otherwise the Bulgarians at Strnmmtz will find their easiest retreat ci.t off. If the Bulgarians cut thTT H'Tv7 i** ? neutralit. v ♦W conld nwreh to Doiran and cut the Franco-British line of communications with Salonika. There is only an «nt,q.»t^ qi W v nt Kavnla, capable of handling four liehtew simultaneously M^Snw V t? V"r° f '?' POIT IC-- The Messa *eri<* Maritimes boats from T™Z M stantl'!^ le ™*c it a port of call. The traveller (says the W wfft ?™ W *Pl*«*h«i* horn the sea looks upon a hotheadHnoW OnV tTJ jon nther sid*. Above the busy quays rises a lon ? town Lh » 1 <!?™ M- 1 *^v C tha* ;" rain a W"ff line Of !™k ente™«? th= town in half: on thf sulps of this scarp yon see terraces of white houses studded w lt h imnnrefs Hfch over all stands a masrivo castk. As ID stenmcr draw, closer in you cnn make out a Ion? aqueduct on two tiers or nr "h« wbid, m r,ns nist^nop anrl from it two <=hopr cliffs approach the son Thp town has a good dwl of historic interest. When it was caUed Neapolis St PnnUanded thr^-intp PhlllT" v"^ ;™« Place of importance iv the daw rf the .BvzantinP Emperors, who huilt for it the ercat aqueduct. Kven the Turks added sonietW to its trewmpe., for in the ffreafc ,n S e of the Ot'omnn Emrf™ The town wns the b.rtholnce of that extraordinary .idvrntnrer M»hem P t Tl ' from the steamer, and whinh houVe a oh^h] c lL« t Ho w-» -ROe economic importance of the place needs no further iSltion?