LORD KITCHENER VISITS THE EASTERN THEATRE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2613, 8 November 1915, Page 5

LORD KITCHENER VISITS THE EASTERN THEATRE

Other news is overshadowed to-day by the announcement that Lord Kitchener is about to visit the Eastern theatre, which by common consent is taken to mean that the Near East will be his sphere of activity in the immediate future. The London "Globe" has been suppressed for stating that Lord Kitchener had resigned, but no exception has apparently been taken to the statement of the "Morning Post" that his stay in the regions for which he is now bound is likely to be so prolonged that it will probably be necessary to fill his place at the War Office before long. There is much interesting speculation on the subject, and the weight of opinion seems to be that British organisation for war has been carried to such a point that Lord Kitchener can now render more important service to the Empire in the Near East than at the' War Office. The Serbians, assisted by their French and British Allies, have inflicted a heavy defeat upon the Bulgarians in Southern Serbia, and as a result have very materially improved their position in that region, but in the north they are still hard pressed, and it is reported by the enemy that some of the outer fortifications of Nish have fallen. In Greece King Ccnstantine has offered to reinstate his latelydefeated Prime Minister, M. Zaimis, but. the latter has declined to resume office. The King has now convened a Council of Ministers. A British transport, with Indian troops aboard, was sunk in the Aegean Sea on September 19. Over 200 were drowned.