NAVAL.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2888, 7 March 1916, Page 1

NAVAL.

ALLIES' EXCELLENT WORK

MR BALFOUR'S PRAISE

London, February 24. I.i the HoiKe of CVmmons, Mr B«l----fo'ur, First Lord of tho Ajdmiralty, aotinou.iiced that the French Conim'aJndcr. iiii-Qhiclf, Adiiriral Fournier, had general naval coni'iniand in llie Mediiterra.nean ; ihe Duked'A'bruz-.i had commaind in the Ad.riato'c «nd branehee. BriUsh o_lice'.-_v heild other local commandß. Tho suc<X'ti.<_ful transport of large forces to SaJoiiiiea -and Valona, the evacuation of the Da.rdia.ielles, and the Itu'Tan Na.vy't; tj-amsport of tihe Servia.n Army 4o< Corfu tesMfied. Mr Balfour affirmed, to the excellence of the Albcd naval work.