THE SALONIKA FRONT.

Otago Witness, Issue 3335, 13 February 1918, Page 15

THE SALONIKA FRONT.

GERMANS PLANNING AN OFFENSIVE. Tho Swiss Legation has received semiofficial advices that Germany is planning an offensive in_ the Balkans on a big scale, utilising Austrian . and German troops- from tho Russian front to co-operate with 'the Bulgarians. The object is to attempt to expel tho Italians from the Epirus. (Greece) and the British and French from Salonika. Germany plans to res'tore Constanine to the Throne of Greece, and make tho Central Powers masters of the Balkans. Germany has sent tho officers of the Fourth Greek Army Corps, which surrendered at Kavala in 1916, to Turkey with a view to organising Royalist contingents among 'the Greeks there. THE GREEK ARMY. Official cables from Athens state that Greece will be able to mobilise 400,000 troops at Salonika within two months. No Allied troops have been withdrawn from Salonika, where it is_ expected that the Allies will have a million men available for an impending drive. Portion of a Greek infantry regiment at Lamia mutinied, with a view to liindering mobilisation. The mutiny was repressed. One hundred and fifty arrests were made at Traportal, in Greece, in connection with the mutiny. MM. Skouloudis and Lambros and other. ex-Ministers wore impeached and

placed under police guard. All political prisoners were despatched to the Fortress of Naupalia. The authorities believe they havo evidence of Royalist plans. A court martial is trying the mutineers.