SALONIKA DEFENCES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16214, 27 April 1916, Page 8

SALONIKA DEFENCES.

GREEK GENERAL'S PRAISE. " ASTONISHING CO-ORDINATION." Admiration for tho work of the allies in connection with the defences on the Salonika front was recently expressed by General Moschopoulds, commander of the Third Greek Army Corps, after accompanying Goneral Sarrail on a tour of inspection. "Tie work done by tho British and French round Salonika is really admirable," he said. " I did not think before seeing it myjelf that such a state of perfection hod been reached or that it was possiblo for so much earth to be moved in so short a, time. Another thing that struck mo was the astonishing co-ordination effected between tha various arms and the various sectors. " But what struck me most was, without doubt, the choice of emplacements and the dispositions of your batteries. I closely observed tho numerous guns, abundantly, supplied with ammunition, without prejudice to your enormous munition depots in the rear. In such conditions I am no longer astonished that your enemies do not attack you. They would require more than 600,000 men and lonr-.idable artillery. Now, without speaking ut tho difficulty of i their raising such effective s and such ma- ( terial, you nave left for them to take- as ( emplacement for batterieii but few points ( which can with any easn bo linked up. , "For our part, as w>i have been au- ( thoriscd to study your works on the j spot, I can assure you we consider them , very complete models, of which we shall ■ take good note. I may even tell you • that when you leave Greek soil we shall undoubtedly ask France to leave us these Works intact, and that we shall carefully j keep thorn up, for nothing more useful could be done for the defence of the town, ' which has for centuries been the obiect of so much covotousness, and the posses- ' sion of which someone might think of dis- , puting with us." , "i « i ""'