PLIGHT OF MONASTER

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2624, 20 November 1915, Page 5

PLIGHT OF MONASTER

A CRY FOR HELP SMART SCORE IN THE. DARDANELLES TRENCHES CAPTURED BY THE BRITISH . KITCHENER'S MISSION CLEVER COUP IN FLANDERS The news from the Balkan Peninsula this morning discloses a serious crisis at Monastir, One report states that the Bulgarian ad.'vance guards have reached the city ; others do not assert as much, ' hut suggest that its capture is imipin'ent. 'The garrison is in sore straits, and is-cut off from its northern line of communication. The Greek liberal Press Tleclares that it is Greece's duty to prevent the i falj of Mojiastir,' Asi'a set-off to.this depressing., budget, Mr. Bonar Law, speaking in his. official capacity in the House of Commons as a . member of the War Committee, has said that the outlook is more hopeful than it has been for many months past. ' Lord Lansdowno, replying to questions in the House of Lords, throws some light on i the nature of Lord Kitchener's mission to the -Near East. Incidentally, it was mentioned by an interrogator that Sir Charles Monro had ■ recommended the withdrawal of the troops from the Dardanelles, where, -by the way; the British have scored a point against the Turks, seizing a substantial piece of the'enemy's entrenched position in the Krithia Nullah. A report from Sir John French relates a smart coup ■by'a British party in Flanders, ,a German trench being effectively raided. There is very, little news from the Russian theatre."