GREECE IN LINE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2635, 4 December 1915, Page 5

GREECE IN LINE

GATHERING STORM' ON THE DANUBE ' ENEMY WATCHING ROMANIA ' FOUR DAYS' BOMBARDMENT ■ ' IN THE WEST Baron Soimino, the Italian Foreign Minister, has lifted the fog of obscurity from tho Balkans in a notable policy speech addressed to' a crowdcd and expectant Chamber. Italy will help Serbia to regain her independence, which independence, says Baron Sonnino, must be one of the conditions of peace. Greece, he says, has given satisfactory assurances as-to her role in the present crisis, and anxiety on that score has been removed. Meanwhile, the Russians are pursuing their activities in the Eastern Galicia region, the Austro-Germans are taking up an intimidatory attitude on the Bulgarian side of the Danube opposite Rumania, and Russian patrol vessels a re cruising day and night' alonjf the Bessarabian shore of the great river. A French communique states that Monastir is still occupied by the Serbians. There has been some artillery fighting in Gallipoli, the Allies' guns Minting. considerable damage. Tho Turks, on tho other hand, claim to have captured certain trench positions and entanglements. There has been a violent four days' bombardment at various points on the British front in the West, and our artillery has got in some destructive work on the enemy's defences.